Bud Pollard

{{short description|American actor}}

{{Infobox person

|name=Bud Pollard

|birth_name=John Evelyn Godson

|birth_date=May 12, 1895

|birth_place=Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

|death_date={{death date and age|1952|12|17|1895|05|12}}

|death_place=Culver City, California, United States

|occupation=Film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor

}}

Bud Pollard (born John Evelyn Godson; May 12, 1895Province of British Columbia, Birth Record, Reg. No. 1895-09-008259, http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/a3c7219f-72b3-4c80-92e4-11a2a82cf8c2 – December 17, 1952) was a Canadian-American film director, screenwriter, film producer and actor.{{cite web|title=Bud Pollard|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/106777/Bud-Pollard}} {{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} Pollard is known for such films as It Happened in Harlem,{{cite web|title=It Happened in Harlem|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/96863/It-Happened-in-Harlem/overview}} {{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} The Black King,{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/5889/Black-King/overview|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|title=The Black King}} {{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} Tall, Tan, and Terrific,{{cite web|title=Tall, Tan, and Terrific|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/48582/Tall-Tan-and-Terrific/overview}} {{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} Victims of Persecution{{cite web|work=The New York Times|title=Victims of Persecution (1933)|author=A.D.S.|date=June 17, 1933|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E0DE3DA1238E333A25754C1A9609C946294D6CF}} and The Road to Hollywood.