Victor Potel

Known for ActingBorn 1889-10-12Died 1947-03-08Lafayette, Indiana, USA

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.Read more

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Trail of the Vigilantes

Two Gun Law

Man Hunt

Whispering Smith Speaks

Scandal Sheet

What Price Beauty?

Uneasy Payments

A Lost Lady

A Self-Made Failure

Quincy Adams Sawyer

Full of Pep

Just a Few Little Things

What Darwin Missed

Snakeville's Blind Pig

Slippery Slim Gets Square

Snakeville's Rising Sons

Slippery Slim, The Mortgage and Sophie

The Wooing of Sophie

Sophie Gets Stung

A Horse on Sophie

Broncho Billy Wins Out

Broncho Billy, a Friend in Need

Broncho Billy Reforms

The Accusation of Broncho Billy

Sophie's Hero

That Pair from Thespia

A Snakeville Courtship

Sophie's New Foreman

Widow Jenkins' Admirers

The Ranch Girl's Mistake

The Loafer

Hank and Lank: They Make a Mash

A Hungry Pair

Broncho Bill's Last Spree

Hank and Lank: As Sandwich Men

The Man in the Trunk

Girl from God's Country

Western Gold

The Broken Coin

Western Frontier

Partners

Selling Shorts

Forward, March!

The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come

Melody of Love

Morganson's Finish

Below the Line

Along Came Ruth