Reginald Pollack

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Reginald Murray Pollack (1924 – 2001) was an American painter known for metaphorical and theme based works of art. He was also a veteran of World War II having served in the Pacific Theater of Operations.

In 1968, Reginald Pollack was a moderately well known artist living in Los Angeles, California. That year, an episode of the science fiction television program Star Trek (entitled "Requiem for Methuselah") gave a brief mention of Reginald Pollack implying that he would become one of the most famous artists in history with his paintings known for centuries after his death. In the episode, Pollack art was in the collection of an immortal man named "Mr. Flint" (played by actor James Daly) who may have once lived as Pollack. One of the uncanny television predictions of all time was that, when Pollack did in fact die 33 years later, his reputation had become close to that which was mentioned in Star Trek.