While his parents attended a lecture of famed playwright Channing Pollock, the author noticed that Majorie was pregnant.
[2] After serving in the US Navy during World War II, Channing married his childhood sweetheart, Naomi Phelps, a daughter of a preacher.
[4] After graduating from the famed Chavez School of Magic in Hollywood, California, Naomi soon became his partner on stage until their divorce in 1959.
[5] He appeared at cabaret venues and in special shows all over the world, performing for President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Queen Elizabeth II and at the wedding of Prince Rainier and Grace Kelly.
Pollock retired in 1968 when he had his last performance on his friend Peter Pit's television show, Watch Closely later that year.
He appeared in several thrillers and dramas, including Musketeers of the Sea (1962), with Aldo Ray and Pier Angeli; Lo sceicco rosso (1962); Rocambole [fr] (1963); and Georges Franju's Judex (1963), in which he played the title character.
According to Jacques Champreux, grandson of Louis Feuillade and co-scenarist of the film, he was being touted as a possible new Rudolph Valentino.
In 1971, Pollock and his wife Corri set up an organic farm in San Gregorio, California, near Moss Beach.