The Oscar-nominated american actor Michael J. Pollard is dead at the age of 80 years.

The typing of his former instructor in the film ’House of 1000 Corpses’ Rob Zombie, on Facebook, in which he mourns the loss.

’I woke up to the news that Michael J. Pollard is dead. I have always loved his work, and his really unique presence on the screen,’ he writes, among other things.

Michael J. Pollard is known from, Betcup among others, ’House of 1000 Corpses’ from 2003 and ’Bonnie and Clyde’ (1967), in which his performance was nominated for an Oscar.

According to The Washington Post died Pollard 20. november of cardiac arrest.

Michael J. Pollard has played along with the icon Marilyn Monroe and has had minor roles in ’Star Trek’ and ’Lost in Space’, before he broke through in ’Bonnie and Clyde’.

In the film, he played flugtchauffør for just Bonnie and Clyde, and it was the role he got his Oscar nomination as best actor in a supporting role for the.

Pollard leaves a daughter, which he got with his first wife, and a son from his second marriage.