Pollock (film) Smith. It was directed by Harris. This film was a long term dream of Ed Harris. After his father gave him a copy of Pollock's biography, he started thinking about the project, which took almost 10 years to bring to fruition. Filming took a mere 50 days with a six-week layoff after forty days so Harris could take time to gain thirty pounds and grow a beard. Harris himself did all the painting seen in the film. "Pollock" received positive reviews from critics and has a "certified fresh" score of 81% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 108 reviews with an
Dale Pollock State University. Pollock is married to violist and fiddle player Susie O'Keeffe Pollock. His children are Owen Pollock, Leo "Milton" Pollock and Zoe Pollock. An excerpt of Pollock's Master of Science thesis, "The Use of Media in a Political Campaign," was published in 1975 in Daily Variety's 42nd Anniversary Issue. Pollock's entry into journalism was as entertainment editor at the "Santa Cruz Sentinel" in Santa Cruz, CA. Subsequently, he joined the staff of "Daily Variety" in Los Angeles becoming Film Critic and Box Office Analyst, before moving to the "Los Angeles Times" where he became Chief Film Reporter in the