Victor Potel

Acting · 0.7 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

The Lady Eve

19417.3

Fury

19367.5

His Regeneration

19154.4

Hail the Conquering Hero

19447.1

Sentimental Sophie

19157.0

A Lost Lady

192410.0

Contraband

19258.0

Sophie's Home-Coming

19159.0

The Egg and I

19477.1

Partners

19329.0

Three Godfathers

19366.9

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

19446.8

It Happened Tomorrow

19446.8

The Bar-C Mystery

19268.0

In Mizzoura

19198.0

The Palm Beach Story

19427.0

Itching Palms

19237.0

Pot o' Gold

19415.7

Flame of Barbary Coast

19455.5

Christmas in July

19407.0

Sophie Pulls a Good One

19147.0

Captain Swagger

19287.0

Ten Cents a Dance

19316.8

The Great McGinty

19407.0

Sophie's Fatal Wedding

19148.0

The Villain Still Pursued Her

19405.2

The Housekeeper's Daughter

19394.6

Young Tom Edison

19405.9

Wagon Wheels West

19437.0

Racing Romance

19267.0

She Couldn't Take It

19355.3

The Girl of the Golden West

19385.3

Refuge

19239.0

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

19476.4

Let Freedom Ring

19396.8

Alkali Ike Bests Broncho Billy

19124.0

Lavender and Old Lace

19218.0

Hollywood Cavalcade

19396.2

Billions

19206.0

Scandal Sheet

193110.0

Frontier Days

19344.3

Adventure's End

19375.5

Stand Up and Fight

19396.0

Moonlight on the Prairie

19356.8

Down to the Sea

19365.3

Just a Few Little Things

191610.0

Mississippi

19356.8

Sophie's Hero

191310.0

Gun Play

19356.0

A Medal for Benny

19455.6

Second Fiddle

19395.1

Call of the West

19308.0

Trail of the Vigilantes

194010.0

The Virginian

19295.8

Ruggles of Red Gap

19357.1

Sophie Gets Stung

191410.0

Quincy Adams Sawyer

192210.0

The Devil Thumbs a Ride

19476.6

Below the Line

19259.0

Strange Illusion

19455.6

Man Hunt

193610.0

Pie for Sophie

19149.0

The Great Moment

19445.8

Three Faces West

19405.7

The Adventures of Rex and Rinty

19357.3

The Loafer

191210.0

The Squaw Man

19315.4

Western Frontier

19359.0

Doughboys

19306.1

Modern Matrimony

19239.0

Damaged Lives

19334.7

The Amateur Adventuress

1919

Paradise Island

19303.8

King of the Wild

19314.2

Waterfront Lady

19355.3

Yellow Dust

19364.5

Li'l Abner

19406.1

Inside Information

19346.5

Mary's Ankle

19207.0

Blondie Brings Up Baby

19396.9

The Loaded Door

19228.0

The Bad One

19307.0

Slightly Honorable

19395.1

The Virtuous Sin

19304.8

Western Gold

19379.0

Face in the Sky

19335.8

The Strange Case of Dr. Meade

19386.5

Bob Hampton of Placer

19219.0

Broncho Billy's Leap

1914

The Glass Alibi

19464.2

On the Great White Trail

19386.5

A Self-Made Failure

192410.0

The Marriage Bargain

19358.0

Slippery Slim and the Impersonator

19147.0

The Meanest Man in the World

19237.0

Shipmates Forever

19356.6

Laughing at Trouble

19368.0

God's Country and the Woman

19375.2

Slippery Slim, The Mortgage and Sophie

191410.0

Yankee Fakir

19476.0

Song of the Saddle

19367.3

The Good Fellows

19438.0

Who's Your Father?

1918

Patricia of the Plains

1910

Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence

19396.6

Alkali Ike's Homecoming

1913

Broncho Billy's Christmas Dinner

19114.5

The Last of the Clintons

19357.0

The Two Reformations

1911

The Captain's Kid

19366.7

Rovin' Tumbleweeds

19395.7

Snakeville's Blind Pig

191410.0

Girl from God's Country

19409.0

The Sheik of Hollywood

1923

Broncho Billy's Mexican Wife

1912

O'Malley of the Mounted

19367.0

The Lady from Cheyenne

19415.7

Snakeville's Rising Sons

191410.0

Broncho Billy's Narrow Escape

19126.7

The Last Laugh

19137.0

The Border Ranger

1911

Whispering Smith Speaks

193510.0

Sophie's Sweetheart

19148.0

An Indian Sunbeam

19127.0

A Story of Montana

19128.0

Ingomar of the Hills

19159.0

Broncho Billy and the Western Girls

19136.0

Broncho Billy's Gratefulness

1913

White Bondage

19376.8

Versus Sledge Hammers

19155.7

Broncho Billy's Sermon

1914

Alkali Ike's Pants

1912

Snakeville's New Doctor

1914

Broncho Billy Rewarded

19149.0

Sophie and the Man of Her Choice

19148.0

Snakeville and the Corset Demonstrator

19149.0

Sophie Finds a Hero

19148.0

Selling Shorts

19319.0

Chip of the Flying U

19397.5

Broncho Billy's Squareness

1913

The Law Forbids

19247.0

Broncho Billy's Promise

1912

The Wooing of Sophie

191410.0

Alkali Ike's Auto

19114.0

Morganson's Finish

19269.0

Broncho Billy's Wild Ride

19147.0

What Came to Bar Q

19146.5

Slim the Brave and Sophie the Fair

19159.0

Sophie Starts Something

19147.0

Slippery Slim Gets Cured

19149.0

Snakeville's New Waitress

19147.0

Step on It!

19229.0

Broncho Billy Reforms

191310.0

The Bachelor's Burglar

19159.0

When Slippery Slim Bought the Cheese

19157.0

Snakeville's Reform Wave

19149.0

The Ranch Girl's Mistake

191210.0

A Cowboy's Vindication

1910

The Cowboy and the Bandit

19357.0

The Fighting Marines

19356.5

The Drunkard

19357.0

An Indian's Friendship

1912

A Tailor-Made Man

1922

A Romance of the Hills

19139.0

The Snakeville Volunteer

19147.0

Alkali Ike Stung!

1912

The Tenderfoot Foreman

19129.0

A Hungry Pair

191110.0

Slippery Slim -- Diplomat

19149.0

Ride on Vaquero

19415.2

A Gamblers' Way

19147.0

Rhythm Round-Up

19458.0

Big Boy Rides Again

19356.5

Town Hall, Tonight

19117.0

The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come

19289.0

Ten Days

19257.0

Slippery Slim Gets Square

191410.0

Thunder Over Texas

19346.7

A Horse on Sophie

191410.0

Broncho Billy, the Vagabond

19147.0

The Battle of Snakeville

19158.0

The Broken Coin

19369.0

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum

19337.6

Small Town Boy

19377.0

Twisted Rails

19345.5

The Bearded Bandit

19104.0

The Man in the Trunk

19429.0

Down the Wyoming Trail

19396.5

Broncho Billy and the Vigilante

1915

Border Romance

19296.8

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

19196.0

Forward, March!

19309.0

What Price Beauty?

192810.0

The Lodge in the Wilderness

19268.0

Captain Kidd, Jr.

1919

Melody of Love

19289.0

Water, Water, Everywhere

19207.0

The Heart of a Child

19209.0

A Petal on the Current

19199.0

Broncho Billy, a Friend in Need

191410.0

Two Gun Law

193710.0

The Bad Man's Downfall

1911

Broncho Billy's Adventure

19114.0

Uneasy Payments

192710.0

The Two Fugitives

1911

Reno

19239.0

Full of Pep

191910.0

The Tout's Remembrance

1910

The Making of Broncho Billy

19135.0

Broncho Billy Wins Out

191410.0

The Corporation and the Ranch Girl

1911

Why Broncho Billy Left Bear County

19137.0

At the Sign of the Jack'O Lantern

19229.0

Hank and Lank: Lifesavers

19107.0

The Accusation of Broncho Billy

191310.0

Baseball Madness

19179.0

Broncho Billy for Sheriff

19127.0

On the Cactus Trail

19129.0

Along Came Ruth

19249.0

The Prospector's Legacy

19127.0

A Child of the West

19129.0

The Puncher's New Love

1911

The Sheriff's Chum

1911

Across the Plains

1911

Broncho Billy and the Card Sharp

19159.0

The Oath of His Office

19129.0

Broncho Billy and the Land Grabber

1915

The Good-for-Nothing

19145.0

A Cowboy's Mother-in-Law

1910

One a Minute

19217.3

The Three Gamblers

1913

Broncho Billy and the Sheriff's Kid

19137.0

The Bunco Game at Lizardhead

1911

Broncho Billy and the Bad Man

1914

The Strike at the Little Jonny Mine

1911

The Infant at Snakeville

1911

Alkali Ike Plays the Devil

1912

Snakeville's Peace-Maker

19147.0

The Indian Maiden's Lesson

1911

Hank and Lank: They Get Wise to a New Scheme

19108.0

The Tomboy on Bar Z

19124.0

A Snakeville Courtship

191310.0

Broncho Billy's Oath

1913

Broncho Billy and the Mine Shark

1914

Widow Jenkins' Admirers

191210.0

The Forester's Plea

1911

The Bad Man's Christmas Gift

19103.5

The Tenderfoot Messenger

1910

Broncho Billy and the Sheriff's Office

19147.0

Alkali Ike and the Hypnotist

1913

Broncho Billy Steps In

1915

The Revenue Agent

19157.0

Broncho Billy and the Red Man

1914

Broncho Bill's Last Spree

191110.0

A Westerner's Way

1910

Broncho Billy's First Arrest

1913

Broncho Billy and the Schoolmistress

19125.3

Broncho Billy's Pal

19128.0

Alkali Ike and the Wildman

19139.0

The Silent Message

1910

When Slippery Slim Met the Champion

19148.0

Broncho Billy and the Sisters

1915

Sophie's New Foreman

191310.0

Hank and Lank: Uninvited Guests

19109.0

Hearts and Saddles

1917

Broncho Billy's Gun Play

1913

Alkali Ike's Close Shave

1912

That Pair from Thespia

191310.0

The Biter Bitten

19129.0

Hank and Lank: Joyriding

19107.0

A Dog on Business

19109.0

Broncho Billy and the Squatter's Daughter

1913

Hank and Lank: They Make a Mash

191110.0

The Count and the Cowboys

1911

Circle C Ranch's Wedding Present

19104.0

Alkali Ike's Misfortunes

1913

A Night on the Road

19147.0

What Darwin Missed

191610.0

Hank and Lank: They Dude Up Some

19109.0

Broncho Billy-Guardian

1914

When Slippery Slim Went for the Eggs

19157.0

Hank and Lank: Blind Men

19108.0

Hank and Lank: As Sandwich Men

191010.0