Michael J Pollard

Recently I was reading about "the Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys" and ran across this story:

[quote]Traffic drummer Jim Capaldi started writing this song in Morocco, where he was getting ready to make a movie called Nevertheless with actor Michael J. Pollard. The film project fell through, but did lead to one of Traffic's best-known songs. Said Capaldi: "Pollard and I would sit around writing lyrics all day, talking about Bob Dylan and the Band, thinking up ridiculous plots for the movie. Before I left Morocco, Pollard wrote in my book 'The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys.' For me, it summed him up. He had this tremendous rebel attitude. He walked around in his cowboy boots, his leather jacket. At the time he was a heavy little dude. It seemed to sum up all the people of that generation who were just rebels. The 'Low Spark,' for me, was the spirit, high-spirited. You know, standing on a street corner. The low rider. The 'Low Spark' meaning that strong undercurrent at the street level."

He was so sweet in Bonnie and Clyde.

He was definitely one of the oddest looking people ever - both on and off the screen - and just became weirder looking the older he got.

Interesting fact: He was once married to Beth Howland who went on to play Vera in the TV sitcom Alice.

Born too soon to have been in the "The Lord of the Rings" films, for which he would've been perfect.

He played Mr. Mooney’s son in one episode of “The Lucy Show”. Strange casting; hard to imagine Gale Gordon fathering someone like him.