Victor Potel
286 movies
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 12, 1889
- Died
- Mar 8, 1947 (age 57)
- Place of birth
- Lafayette, Indiana, USA
- Also known as
- Vic Potel
Biography
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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.
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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.
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Known for
Victor Potel: movies and TV shows
Acting (284)
- 1947 The Egg and I
as Crowbar
- 1947 The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
as Prof. Potelle
- 1947 Yankee Fakir
as Contest Chairman
- 1947
- 1946 The Glass Alibi
as Gas Attendant (as Vic Potel)
- 1945 Rhythm Round-Up
as Slim Jensen
- 1945 Flame of Barbary Coast
as Train Fireman
- 1945 A Medal for Benny
as Pantera Pepster Club Member (uncredited)
- 1945 Strange Illusion
as Mac
- 1944 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
as Newspaper Editor
- 1944 Hail the Conquering Hero
as Progressive Bandleader (uncredited)
- 1944 The Great Moment
as First Dental Patient
- 1944
- 1943 Wagon Wheels West
as Posse Rider (uncredited)
- 1943 The Good Fellows
as Branders (uncredited)
- 1942 The Man in the Trunk
as Deaf Floor Man (uncredited)
- 1942 The Palm Beach Story
as Mr. McKeewie
- 1941 Sullivan's Travels
as Cameraman
- 1941 Ride on Vaquero
as Ole
- 1941 The Lady from Cheyenne
as Lem
- 1941 Pot o' Gold
as Olaf Svenson (uncredited)
- 1941 The Lady Eve
as Second Steward (uncredited)
- 1940 Trail of the Vigilantes
as Conductor
- 1940 Li'l Abner
as Fantastic Brown
- 1940 Christmas in July
as Davenola Salesman
- 1940 The Villain Still Pursued Her
as Policeman (uncredited)
- 1940 The Great McGinty
as Cook (uncredited)
- 1940 Girl from God's Country
as Barber
- 1940 Three Faces West
as Postman
- 1940 Young Tom Edison
as Mr. Tompkins
- 1939 Slightly Honorable
as Gasoline Station Proprietor (Uncredited)
- 1939 Chip of the Flying U
as Station Agent
- 1939 Rovin' Tumbleweeds
as Man in Store
- 1939 Blondie Brings Up Baby
as Lars (uncredited)
- 1939 Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
as Ranch Hand
- 1939 The Housekeeper's Daughter
as Suspect
- 1939 Hollywood Cavalcade
as Slim
- 1939 Second Fiddle
as Steve - Crane Operator
- 1939 Down the Wyoming Trail
as Slim
- 1939 Let Freedom Ring
as Ole Swensen (uncredited)
- 1939 Stand Up and Fight
as Coach Driver
- 1938 The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
as Steve
- 1938 On the Great White Trail
as Lyons
- 1938 The Girl of the Golden West
as Lem - Stagecoach Driver
- 1937 Adventure's End
as Tall Sailor (uncredited)
- 1937 Small Town Boy
as Abner Towner
- 1937 Western Gold
as Jasper
- 1937 White Bondage
as Luke Stacey
- 1937 Two Gun Law
as Cassius
- 1937 God's Country and the Woman
as Turpentine
- 1936 Laughing at Trouble
as Lem Parker
- 1936 The Captain's Kid
as Deputy Jake Hutchinson
- 1936 Fury
as Jorgeson (uncredited)
- 1936 Down to the Sea
as Andy
- 1936 O'Malley of the Mounted
as Gabby - the Cook
- 1936 Yellow Dust
as Jugger - the Bartender
- 1936 Three Godfathers
as 'Buck Tooth'
- 1936 Song of the Saddle
as Little Casino
- 1936 Man Hunt
as Townsman Pointing Out Shefiff's Office (uncredited)
- 1936
- 1935 Gun Play
as Brawler (uncredited)
- 1935 The Fighting Marines
as Fake Native Chief [Ch. 12]
- 1935 The Last of the Clintons
as Jed Clinton
- 1935 Moonlight on the Prairie
as Tall Saloon Cowboy
- 1935 Shipmates Forever
as Loafer (uncredited)
- 1935 She Couldn't Take It
as Farmer
- 1935 Waterfront Lady
as Alex
- 1935 The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
as Kinso
- 1935 Western Frontier
as Slim
- 1935 Whispering Smith Speaks
as Bill Prouty
- 1935 The Drunkard
as Farmer Gates
- 1935 The Cowboy and the Bandit
as Lanky
- 1935 Mississippi
as Guest (uncredited)
- 1935 Ruggles of Red Gap
as Curly - Cowboy
- 1935 The Marriage Bargain
as Jeff Thompson
- 1935 Big Boy Rides Again
as Ranch Foreman Scarface
- 1934 Frontier Days
as Deputy Tex Hatch
- 1934 Thunder Over Texas
as Dick
- 1934 Inside Information
as Rice - Thin Detective
- 1934 Twisted Rails
as Tom Watson
- 1933 Damaged Lives
as Undetermined Role
- 1933 Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
as The General
- 1933 Face in the Sky
as Ed Burns, Carnival Patron (uncredited)
- 1932 Partners
as Deputy Lem
- 1931 Selling Shorts
as Slim Bassil
- 1931 The Squaw Man
as Andy
- 1931 King of the Wild
as Peterson
- 1931 Scandal Sheet
as Reporter
- 1931 Ten Cents a Dance
as Smith, a Sailor
- 1930
- 1930 The Virtuous Sin
as Sentry
- 1930 Doughboys
as Svendenburg
- 1930 Paradise Island
as Swede
- 1930 Call of the West
as Trig Peters
- 1930 The Bad One
as Sailor
- 1929 The Virginian
as Nebrasky
- 1929 Border Romance
as Slim
- 1928 Captain Swagger
as Jean
- 1928 Melody of Love
as The Gawk
- 1928 The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
as Tom Turner
- 1928
- 1927 Uneasy Payments
as Press Agent
- 1926 Racing Romance
as Constable
- 1926 The Lodge in the Wilderness
as Goofus
- 1926 Morganson's Finish
as Ole Jensen
- 1926
- 1925 Below the Line
as 'Cuckoo' Niles
- 1925 Contraband
as George Bogardus
- 1925
- 1924 A Lost Lady
as Ivy Peters
- 1924 Along Came Ruth
as Oscar Sims
- 1924 A Self-Made Failure
as Pokey Jones
- 1924 The Law Forbids
as Joel Andrews
- 1923 Reno
as Detective McRae
- 1923 The Meanest Man in the World
as Lute Boon
- 1923 Modern Matrimony
as Junior Rutherford
- 1923 Itching Palms
as The Village Dumbbell
- 1923 Refuge
as Alphonse
- 1923
- 1922 Quincy Adams Sawyer
as Hiram Maxwell
- 1922 The Loaded Door
as Slim
- 1922 A Tailor-Made Man
as Peter
- 1922 Step on It!
as Noisy Johnson
- 1922 At the Sign of the Jack'O Lantern
as The Poet
- 1921 One a Minute
as Jingo Pitts
- 1921 Lavender and Old Lace
as Joe Pendleton
- 1921 Bob Hampton of Placer
as Willie McNeil
- 1920 Billions
as Pushkin
- 1920 The Heart of a Child
as Charley Peastone
- 1920 Mary's Ankle
as Johnny Stokes
- 1920 Water, Water, Everywhere
as Steve Brainard
- 1919 In Mizzoura
as Dave
- 1919
- 1919
- 1919 Full of Pep
as Beanpole
- 1919 The Amateur Adventuress
as Gregory Charles Sentel
- 1919 Captain Kidd, Jr.
as Constable Sam
- 1918 Who's Your Father?
as Comedy Role
- 1917
- 1917
- 1916 What Darwin Missed
as Professor Alonzo Bozzle
- 1916 Just a Few Little Things
as Archie
- 1915
- 1915 Versus Sledge Hammers
as The Count
- 1915
- 1915
- 1915
- 1915 The Revenue Agent
as The Minister
- 1915 His Regeneration
as Pawn Shop Clerk
- 1915
- 1915 Broncho Billy and the Vigilante
as A Cattle Owner
- 1915 Slim the Brave and Sophie the Fair
as Slippery Slim
- 1915 Sophie's Home-Coming
as Slippery Slim
- 1915 When Slippery Slim Bought the Cheese
as Slippery Slim
- 1915 Sentimental Sophie
as Slippery Slim
- 1915 Broncho Billy and the Sisters
as The Minister
- 1915 When Slippery Slim Went for the Eggs
as Slippery Slim
- 1915 The Battle of Snakeville
as Slippery Slim
- 1914 Snakeville's Rising Sons
as Slippery Slim
- 1914
- 1914 Slippery Slim Gets Square
as Slippery Slim
- 1914 Snakeville's Blind Pig
as Slippery Slim
- 1914 Sophie's Sweetheart
as Slippery Slim
- 1914 Sophie's Fatal Wedding
as Slippery Slim
- 1914 Snakeville's Reform Wave
as Slippery Slim
- 1914 A Horse on Sophie
as Slippery Slim
- 1914 Sophie and the Man of Her Choice
as Slippery Slim
- 1914 Slippery Slim and the Impersonator
as Slippery Slim
- 1914 Snakeville and the Corset Demonstrator
as Slippery Slim
- 1914 Slippery Slim, The Mortgage and Sophie
as Slippery Slim
- 1914 Broncho Billy Rewarded
as The Hotel Proprietor
- 1914 Snakeville's Peace-Maker
as Slippery Slim
- 1914 When Slippery Slim Met the Champion
as Slippery Slim
- 1914 Slippery Slim Gets Cured
as Slippery Slim
- 1914
- 1914
- 1914
- 1914 Broncho Billy Wins Out
as The School Trustee
- 1914 Snakeville's New Waitress
as Slippery Slim
- 1914 Slippery Slim -- Diplomat
as Slippery Slim
- 1914 Sophie Gets Stung
as Slippery Slim
- 1914 Sophie Finds a Hero
as Slippery Slim
- 1914 The Wooing of Sophie
as Slippery Slim
- 1914 Broncho Billy and the Mine Shark
as The Hotel Clerk
- 1914 The Snakeville Volunteer
as Slippery Slim
- 1914 The Good-for-Nothing
as Old Clerk
- 1914 Sophie Pulls a Good One
as Slippery Slim
- 1914 Sophie Starts Something
as Slippery Slim
- 1914
- 1914 Broncho Billy's Sermon
as The Sheriff
- 1914 Pie for Sophie
as Snicklefritz
- 1914 A Gamblers' Way
as The Bartender
- 1914
- 1914 What Came to Bar Q
as Bartender
- 1914 Broncho Billy and the Bad Man
as The Storekeeper
- 1914 A Night on the Road
as Sheriff's Assistant
- 1914
- 1914 Snakeville's New Doctor
as Slippery Slim
- 1913 A Snakeville Courtship
as Slippery Slim
- 1913 That Pair from Thespia
as Second Actor
+ 84 more credits
Behind the camera (4)
- Upcoming Saxophobia
Story
- 1936 The Broken Coin
Dialogue
- 1935 Million Dollar Haul
Writer
- 1934 Inside Information
Story