Victor Potel

Acting · 0.6 popularity

Age

136

Movies

284

Born: October 12, 1889 – March 8, 1947
From: Lafayette, Indiana, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Victor Potel (October 12, 1889 – March 8, 1947) was an American film character actor who began in the silent era and appeared in over 430 films in his 38-year career. Victor Potel was born in Lafayette, Indiana in 1889, and his acting career goes back almost to the beginning of the commercial film industry in the United States. He made his first silent film in 1910, a comedy short filmed in Chicago by Essanay Film Manufacturing Company called A Dog on Business. Potel continued to make films for Essanay, appearing in dozens of films every year, including most of the Broncho Billy series, and played a character called "Slippery Slim" in 80 movies. He also appeared in Universal Pictures' "Snakeville" series. Potel's first talking picture was Melody of Love, starring Walter Pidgeon, made for Universal in 1928. and in the sound era he continued to work continuously and constantly, playing small parts and sometimes uncredited bit parts, all primarily comic roles due to his height (6 ft 1 in or 1.85 m) and gawkiness. In addition to acting, on several occasions Potel also wrote and directed. In the 1920s he directed two silent shorts, The Rubber-Neck in 1924 and Action Craver in 1927, and contributed the story for Saxophobia in 1927. In the following decade, in the sound era, he was the dialogue director for The Big Chance (1933), and wrote the story for Inside Information in 1934). In 1935 he provided continuity and dialogue for Million Dollar Haul and the screenplay for Hot Off the Press. In the 1940s, Potel was part of Preston Sturges' unofficial "stock company" of character actors, appearing in nine films written and directed by Sturges. Potel continued to work right up until his death on 8 March 1947. The final film he worked on, Relentless finished filming on 28 February of that year.

Works

284 films

Sullivan's Travels

19417.4

His Regeneration

19154.4

The Lady Eve

19417.3

Fury

19367.5

Hail the Conquering Hero

19447.1

The Egg and I

19477.1

Partners

19329.0

Sentimental Sophie

19157.0

Sophie's Home-Coming

19159.0

A Lost Lady

192410.0

In Mizzoura

19198.0

Three Godfathers

19366.9

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

19446.8

The Palm Beach Story

19427.0

The Bar-C Mystery

19268.0

Refuge

19239.0

Billions

19206.0

Itching Palms

19237.0

Contraband

19258.0

Young Tom Edison

19405.9

The Villain Still Pursued Her

19405.2

Alkali Ike Bests Broncho Billy

19124.0

Ten Cents a Dance

19316.8

Christmas in July

19407.0

Captain Swagger

19287.0

Flame of Barbary Coast

19455.5

It Happened Tomorrow

19446.8

Wagon Wheels West

19437.0

Let Freedom Ring

19396.8

Down to the Sea

19365.3

The Girl of the Golden West

19385.3

Scandal Sheet

193110.0

Sophie's Fatal Wedding

19148.0

Mississippi

19356.8

Pot o' Gold

19415.7

Frontier Days

19344.3

Stand Up and Fight

19396.0

Sophie Pulls a Good One

19147.0

The Great McGinty

19407.0

Racing Romance

19267.0

Moonlight on the Prairie

19356.8

Mary's Ankle

19207.0

The Housekeeper's Daughter

19394.6

Li'l Abner

19406.1

Sophie Gets Stung

191410.0

The Great Moment

19445.8

Second Fiddle

19395.1

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

19476.4

Western Frontier

19359.0

Waterfront Lady

19355.3

She Couldn't Take It

19355.3

The Adventures of Rex and Rinty

19357.3

Man Hunt

193610.0

Damaged Lives

19334.7

Trail of the Vigilantes

194010.0

The Marriage Bargain

19358.0

Paradise Island

19303.8

Lavender and Old Lace

19218.0

Bob Hampton of Placer

19219.0

Below the Line

19259.0

Song of the Saddle

19367.3

The Virginian

19295.8

Girl from God's Country

19409.0

Gun Play

19356.0

Western Gold

19379.0

Ruggles of Red Gap

19357.1

Sophie's Hero

191310.0

Just a Few Little Things

191610.0

Hollywood Cavalcade

19396.2

Doughboys

19306.1

Who's Your Father?

1918

The Lady from Cheyenne

19415.7

Adventure's End

19375.5

Blondie Brings Up Baby

19396.9

The Amateur Adventuress

1919

Strange Illusion

19455.6

Three Faces West

19405.7

The Two Reformations

1911

King of the Wild

19314.2

Snakeville's New Doctor

1914

The Loafer

191210.0

The Good Fellows

19438.0

The Squaw Man

19315.4

Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence

19396.6

The Border Ranger

1911

Pie for Sophie

19149.0

Broncho Billy's Christmas Dinner

19114.5

Laughing at Trouble

19368.0

The Strange Case of Dr. Meade

19386.5

Yankee Fakir

19476.0

Quincy Adams Sawyer

192210.0

Slim the Brave and Sophie the Fair

19159.0

Sophie and the Man of Her Choice

19148.0

Call of the West

19308.0

Rovin' Tumbleweeds

19395.7

An Indian Sunbeam

19127.0

The Loaded Door

19228.0

The Devil Thumbs a Ride

19476.6

Slippery Slim, The Mortgage and Sophie

191410.0

The Wooing of Sophie

191410.0

Patricia of the Plains

1910

Face in the Sky

19335.8

Chip of the Flying U

19397.5

Sophie's Sweetheart

19148.0

O'Malley of the Mounted

19367.0

The Meanest Man in the World

19237.0

Modern Matrimony

19239.0

Alkali Ike's Pants

1912

Big Boy Rides Again

19356.5

Broncho Billy, the Vagabond

19147.0

Broncho Billy's Leap

1914

Slightly Honorable

19395.1

The Sheik of Hollywood

1923

Yellow Dust

19364.5

Snakeville's Blind Pig

191410.0

Broncho Billy and the Western Girls

19136.0

Shipmates Forever

19356.6

God's Country and the Woman

19375.2

Broncho Billy's Squareness

1913

Snakeville's Rising Sons

191410.0

Inside Information

19346.5

The Last Laugh

19137.0

Ride on Vaquero

19415.2

A Story of Montana

19128.0

The Law Forbids

19247.0

The Captain's Kid

19366.7

What Came to Bar Q

19146.5

A Medal for Benny

19455.6

The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come

19289.0

The Bad One

19307.0

The Drunkard

19357.0

An Indian's Friendship

1912

Broncho Billy's Mexican Wife

1912

Alkali Ike's Auto

19114.0

The Bachelor's Burglar

19159.0

Broncho Billy's Sermon

1914

A Tailor-Made Man

1922

Whispering Smith Speaks

193510.0

Full of Pep

191910.0

Sophie Finds a Hero

19148.0

Selling Shorts

19319.0

Alkali Ike's Homecoming

1913

The Bearded Bandit

19104.0

Sophie Starts Something

19147.0

A Petal on the Current

19199.0

Snakeville's New Waitress

19147.0

Alkali Ike Stung!

1912

The Glass Alibi

19464.2

White Bondage

19376.8

Morganson's Finish

19269.0

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum

19337.6

Broncho Billy Reforms

191310.0

A Cowboy's Vindication

1910

Broncho Billy's Narrow Escape

19126.7

When Slippery Slim Bought the Cheese

19157.0

The Heart of a Child

19209.0

The Cowboy and the Bandit

19357.0

The Tenderfoot Foreman

19129.0

Broncho Billy's Wild Ride

19147.0

Slippery Slim and the Impersonator

19147.0

The Virtuous Sin

19304.8

The Last of the Clintons

19357.0

Ingomar of the Hills

19159.0

Broncho Billy and the Vigilante

1915

On the Great White Trail

19386.5

The Snakeville Volunteer

19147.0

Snakeville and the Corset Demonstrator

19149.0

The Fighting Marines

19356.5

Broncho Billy's Gratefulness

1913

Melody of Love

19289.0

Broncho Billy Rewarded

19149.0

Broncho Billy's Promise

1912

Snakeville's Reform Wave

19149.0

The Bad Man's Downfall

1911

Slippery Slim Gets Square

191410.0

Versus Sledge Hammers

19155.7

Ten Days

19257.0

A Hungry Pair

191110.0

The Ranch Girl's Mistake

191210.0

A Romance of the Hills

19139.0

The Corporation and the Ranch Girl

1911

Border Romance

19296.8

Slippery Slim Gets Cured

19149.0

Step on It!

19229.0

Water, Water, Everywhere

19207.0

Small Town Boy

19377.0

The Battle of Snakeville

19158.0

The Tout's Remembrance

1910

Slippery Slim -- Diplomat

19149.0

The Strike at the Little Jonny Mine

1911

Hank and Lank: Lifesavers

19107.0

Rhythm Round-Up

19458.0

A Gamblers' Way

19147.0

A Horse on Sophie

191410.0

Twisted Rails

19345.5

A Self-Made Failure

192410.0

Broncho Billy Wins Out

191410.0

A Cowboy's Mother-in-Law

1910

Town Hall, Tonight

19117.0

What Price Beauty?

192810.0

The Puncher's New Love

1911

Uneasy Payments

192710.0

The Lodge in the Wilderness

19268.0

Thunder Over Texas

19346.7

The Broken Coin

19369.0

Forward, March!

19309.0

Across the Plains

1911

Captain Kidd, Jr.

1919

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

19196.0

Reno

19239.0

The Two Fugitives

1911

A Child of the West

19129.0

Along Came Ruth

19249.0

The Sheriff's Chum

1911

Broncho Billy for Sheriff

19127.0

The Accusation of Broncho Billy

191310.0

Broncho Billy's Adventure

19114.0

Two Gun Law

193710.0

Broncho Billy, a Friend in Need

191410.0

The Man in the Trunk

19429.0

Why Broncho Billy Left Bear County

19137.0

The Forester's Plea

1911

The Bad Man's Christmas Gift

19103.5

The Bunco Game at Lizardhead

1911

Baseball Madness

19179.0

The Silent Message

1910

The Making of Broncho Billy

19135.0

The Oath of His Office

19129.0

Broncho Billy and the Sheriff's Office

19147.0

Snakeville's Peace-Maker

19147.0

At the Sign of the Jack'O Lantern

19229.0

Alkali Ike and the Hypnotist

1913

Broncho Billy and the Mine Shark

1914

Broncho Billy's Gun Play

1913

The Indian Maiden's Lesson

1911

Broncho Billy and the Land Grabber

1915

Broncho Billy and the Sheriff's Kid

19137.0

The Revenue Agent

19157.0

The Prospector's Legacy

19127.0

Broncho Billy's Pal

19128.0

The Tomboy on Bar Z

19124.0

The Infant at Snakeville

1911

Sophie's New Foreman

191310.0

Broncho Billy Steps In

1915

Hank and Lank: They Make a Mash

191110.0

Alkali Ike Plays the Devil

1912

Circle C Ranch's Wedding Present

19104.0

Broncho Billy and the Bad Man

1914

The Three Gamblers

1913

That Pair from Thespia

191310.0

The Good-for-Nothing

19145.0

Broncho Billy and the Schoolmistress

19125.3

Down the Wyoming Trail

19396.5

Broncho Billy and the Card Sharp

19159.0

A Dog on Business

19109.0

Broncho Billy and the Squatter's Daughter

1913

A Westerner's Way

1910

Hank and Lank: Joyriding

19107.0

Broncho Billy and the Red Man

1914

Hank and Lank: They Get Wise to a New Scheme

19108.0

Broncho Billy's Oath

1913

Hank and Lank: Blind Men

19108.0

A Snakeville Courtship

191310.0

Hank and Lank: Uninvited Guests

19109.0

One a Minute

19217.3

Broncho Billy and the Sisters

1915

Alkali Ike and the Wildman

19139.0

Broncho Bill's Last Spree

191110.0

Alkali Ike's Close Shave

1912

Hearts and Saddles

1917

The Tenderfoot Messenger

1910

Hank and Lank: They Dude Up Some

19109.0

When Slippery Slim Went for the Eggs

19157.0

On the Cactus Trail

19129.0

The Count and the Cowboys

1911

When Slippery Slim Met the Champion

19148.0

Alkali Ike's Misfortunes

1913

Broncho Billy's First Arrest

1913

A Night on the Road

19147.0

Broncho Billy-Guardian

1914

The Biter Bitten

19129.0

What Darwin Missed

191610.0

Widow Jenkins' Admirers

191210.0

Hank and Lank: As Sandwich Men

191010.0