Daphne Pollard

Australian actress, singer, dancer, acrobat, entertainer (b. Fitzroy, Melbourne, 1891 - d. 1978). Daphne Pollard joined Tom Pollard‘s Lilliputian Opera Company at age six, touring Australasia and South Africa until the troupe disbanded in 1905. Two years later, having taken Pollard as her professional name, she travelled to the USA, remaining there until her death in Los Angeles. Between 1907 and 1943 she appeared in some 60 films, including comedies produced by Max Sennett and later Hal Roach (notably several Laurel and Hardy features). Pollard also worked on Broadway in musical comedies and dramas, appeared in the Ziegfield Follies and toured the Keith Vaudeville Circuit (1924). Her final film was "Kid Dynamite" (1943).