As an actor, Pollak’s most notable roles are usually playing the best friend or confidant characters to the leading men, as he did in Ricochet (1991), A Few Good Men (1992), End of Days (1999) and The Wedding Planner (2001). However, Pollak has also played a wide variety of parts; he played a criminal in The Usual Suspects (1995) and a gangster in The Whole Nine Yards (2000). In Deterrence (1999), he played the main character, a Vice President who must take over for a deceased President and deal with a nuclear crisis. As a comedian, Pollak’s most famous work was his HBO special Stop With the Kicking, directed by David Steinberg and produced by Boston comedy writer Martin Olson. In July 2009, The Littlest Suspect, his most recent comedy special, was aired on Showtime. Pollak’s directorial debut was on the horror web series Vamped Out, featured on Babelgum. His feature film directorial debut, the comedy documentary Misery Loves Comedy, premiered at The 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
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