My wife and I were once approached by Michael Winner and a colleague “out of the blue” at the entrance to Green Park tube station in central London and asked if we knew who Michael J Pollard was.
Being regular filmgoers at the time we recalled his cartoon-like features and goofy character as a foil for the main Bonnie and Clyde leads in the 1967 film. We presumed Winner was conducting a “vox pop” on us as random members of the public to see whether Pollard was a suitable choice for a bigger role to come.
If so, I like to think we played a small part in his being cast in Hannibal Brooks (1969).
