“It’s amazing to me to be able to do both (film acting and stand-up), to find a blend,” Pollak says. Pollak hasn’t stopped working in films since. In 1988, he landed a small role in Ron Howard’s fantasy movie Willow. “That’s where directors and casting directors would come and see you,” he says.Īfter an appearance on The Merv Griffin Show, he got an agent and began going on auditions for film roles. I was horrified – it was as though she had caught me doing something else.” My mom caught me performing in front of the stereo. “I got Bill Cosby’s second album and would lip sync it. “As a kid, I was just mesmerized by comics on TV,” says the native San Franciscan. As a practical joke, Pollak once left a message on Arkin’s answering machine in Arkin’s voice, briefly confusing the actor into thinking he had left himself a message. His impression of Alan Arkin is particularly notorious. So it’s mostly me telling anecdotes about the people I’ve worked with and doing impressions of them.”Įxpect to hear his dead-on imitations of William Shatner, Jack Nicholson, Robert DeNiro, Peter Falk, Christopher Walken and Arnold Schwarzenegger. “I realized people wanted to hear impersonations. “In my act, I like to take audiences on a ride away from newspapers and life’s troubles,” he says. This Sunday night at 7:30, he’ll be bringing his trunkload of impersonations to Har Zion Temple in Penn Valley, where he’ll be the headliner in the synagogue’s annual fund-raiser. Even as a small child, Kevin Pollak showed a knack for doing impersonations – of Marlon Brando, President Nixon, and anyone else he saw on TV.Īt age 49, he’s developed an unusual double career as a screen actor and stand-up comic, entertaining his audiences with hilarious impressions of the big stars he’s performed with in movies like A Few Good Men, Casino, Grumpy Old Men, The Usual Suspects, The Whole Nine Yards and The Santa Clause 2.
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