Trivia

In 1966, at the age of 27, Michael J Pollard was hired as a guest star in "Star Trek", playing "Jahn" in the episode "Miri". The script called for an actor 14 years of age, but Pollard got the part anyway since his agent convinced the show's producers that he looked like a teenager, even though he was close to 30.

An early career break occurred when Pollard was brought in as a replacement during the first season of TV's "Dobie Gillis". Co-star Bob Denver, who was stealing the show as Dobie's beatnik buddy, Maynard G. Krebs, was going to be drafted into the Army and had to exit the series. When Denver was classified "4-F" due to a longstanding neck injury and returned, Pollard's character of weird cousin Jerome Krebs was quickly written out.

One of the few actors to have appeared on both classic Sci-Fi shows "Lost In Space" and "Star Trek".

Played the role of "Hugo" in the original Broadway production of "Bye Bye Birdie", co-starring with Dick Van Dyke, Chita Rivera, Paul Lynde and Dick Gautier, in the early 1960s.

Credited by Traffic drummer Jim Capaldi with coining the term, "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys".

Before Robert Altman was signed to direct "Brewster McCloud", Michael J. Pollard was considered for the title role. Bud Cort eventually played it.

Filming "Hannibal Brooks" (starring Oliver Reed) in the Austrian Alps, Pollard indulged in a good deal of recreational drug-taking, much to the fury of director Michael Winner. When Winner told him off about it, Pollard simply replied, "If you had to share an hotel room with Oliver Reed, you'd take drugs, too!".

Has two children: a daughter, Holly, with actress Beth Howland and a son, Axel, from a second marriage.

His parents, Sonia (Dubanowich) and Michael John Pollack, were both of Polish descent.