Acting
Victor Potel
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.
Filmography
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Film · 1947
The Egg and I
Film · 1947
The Devil Thumbs a Ride
Film · 1947
Yankee Fakir
Film · 1947
The Glass Alibi
Film · 1946
Flame of Barbary Coast
Film · 1945
Rhythm Round-Up
Film · 1945
A Medal for Benny
Film · 1945
Strange Illusion
Film · 1945
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Film · 1944
It Happened Tomorrow
Film · 1944
The Great Moment
Film · 1944
Hail the Conquering Hero
Film · 1944
The Good Fellows
Film · 1943
Wagon Wheels West
Film · 1943
The Palm Beach Story
Film · 1942
The Man in the Trunk
Film · 1942
Sullivan's Travels
Film · 1941
Pot o' Gold
Film · 1941
The Lady from Cheyenne
Film · 1941
Ride on Vaquero
Film · 1941
The Lady Eve
Film · 1941
Christmas in July
Film · 1940
The Villain Still Pursued Her
Film · 1940
Young Tom Edison
Film · 1940
Trail of the Vigilantes
Film · 1940
The Great McGinty
Film · 1940
Li'l Abner
Film · 1940
Three Faces West
Film · 1940
Girl from God's Country
Film · 1940
Hollywood Cavalcade
Film · 1939
Stand Up and Fight
Film · 1939
Let Freedom Ring
Film · 1939
Down the Wyoming Trail
Film · 1939
Second Fiddle
Film · 1939
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
Film · 1939
Slightly Honorable
Film · 1939
The Housekeeper's Daughter
Film · 1939
Blondie Brings Up Baby
Film · 1939
Rovin' Tumbleweeds
Film · 1939
Chip of the Flying U
Film · 1939
The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
Film · 1938
The Girl of the Golden West
Film · 1938
On the Great White Trail
Film · 1938
Adventure's End
Film · 1937
Western Gold
Film · 1937
God's Country and the Woman
Film · 1937
Small Town Boy
Film · 1937
Two Gun Law
Film · 1937
White Bondage
Film · 1937
The Broken Coin
Film · 1936
Three Godfathers
Film · 1936
Down to the Sea
Film · 1936
Yellow Dust
Film · 1936
Fury
Film · 1936
Song of the Saddle
Film · 1936
Man Hunt
Film · 1936
The Captain's Kid
Film · 1936
O'Malley of the Mounted
Film · 1936
Laughing at Trouble
Film · 1936
The Fighting Marines
Film · 1935
The Drunkard
Film · 1935
Big Boy Rides Again
Film · 1935
The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
Film · 1935
The Last of the Clintons
Film · 1935
Gun Play
Film · 1935
The Cowboy and the Bandit
Film · 1935
Western Frontier
Film · 1935
Mississippi
Film · 1935
Whispering Smith Speaks
Film · 1935
Moonlight on the Prairie
Film · 1935
Waterfront Lady
Film · 1935
Ruggles of Red Gap
Film · 1935
Shipmates Forever
Film · 1935
She Couldn't Take It
Film · 1935
The Marriage Bargain
Film · 1935
Frontier Days
Film · 1934
Thunder Over Texas
Film · 1934
Inside Information
Film · 1934
Twisted Rails
Film · 1934
Damaged Lives
Film · 1933
Face in the Sky
Film · 1933
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Film · 1933
Partners
Film · 1932
King of the Wild
Film · 1931
The Squaw Man
Film · 1931
Selling Shorts
Film · 1931
Scandal Sheet
Film · 1931
Ten Cents a Dance
Film · 1931
Forward, March!
Film · 1930
The Bad One
Film · 1930
Call of the West
Film · 1930
The Virtuous Sin
Film · 1930
Doughboys
Film · 1930
Paradise Island
Film · 1930
The Virginian
Film · 1929
Border Romance
Film · 1929
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
Film · 1928
Captain Swagger
Film · 1928
Melody of Love
Film · 1928
What Price Beauty?
Film · 1928
Uneasy Payments
Film · 1927
Racing Romance
Film · 1926
The Lodge in the Wilderness
Film · 1926
Morganson's Finish
Film · 1926
The Bar-C Mystery
Film · 1926
Below the Line
Film · 1925
Ten Days
Film · 1925
Contraband
Film · 1925
A Lost Lady
Film · 1924
The Law Forbids
Film · 1924
A Self-Made Failure
Film · 1924
Along Came Ruth
Film · 1924
Reno
Film · 1923
The Meanest Man in the World
Film · 1923
Refuge
Film · 1923
Modern Matrimony
Film · 1923
Itching Palms
Film · 1923
The Sheik of Hollywood
Film · 1923
Quincy Adams Sawyer
Film · 1922
A Tailor-Made Man
Film · 1922
The Loaded Door
Film · 1922
Step on It!
Film · 1922
At the Sign of the Jack'O Lantern
Film · 1922
Lavender and Old Lace
Film · 1921
One a Minute
Film · 1921
Bob Hampton of Placer
Film · 1921
The Heart of a Child
Film · 1920
Water, Water, Everywhere
Film · 1920
Mary's Ankle
Film · 1920
Billions
Film · 1920
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Film · 1919
Captain Kidd, Jr.
Film · 1919
Full of Pep
Film · 1919
A Petal on the Current
Film · 1919
The Amateur Adventuress
Film · 1919
In Mizzoura
Film · 1919
Who's Your Father?
Film · 1918
Baseball Madness
Film · 1917
Hearts and Saddles
Film · 1917
Just a Few Little Things
Film · 1916
What Darwin Missed
Film · 1916
Broncho Billy and the Sisters
Film · 1915
Slim the Brave and Sophie the Fair
Film · 1915
Sophie's Home-Coming
Film · 1915
When Slippery Slim Went for the Eggs
Film · 1915
The Battle of Snakeville
Film · 1915
Sentimental Sophie
Film · 1915
When Slippery Slim Bought the Cheese
Film · 1915
Ingomar of the Hills
Film · 1915
Broncho Billy and the Vigilante
Film · 1915
The Bachelor's Burglar
Film · 1915
The Revenue Agent
Film · 1915
Broncho Billy and the Land Grabber
Film · 1915
Broncho Billy Steps In
Film · 1915
Broncho Billy and the Card Sharp
Film · 1915
Versus Sledge Hammers
Film · 1915
His Regeneration
Film · 1915
Sophie's Sweetheart
Film · 1914
Snakeville's Blind Pig
Film · 1914
Broncho Billy and the Sheriff's Office
Film · 1914
Snakeville's Rising Sons
Film · 1914
Slippery Slim Gets Square
Film · 1914
Broncho Billy and the Red Man
Film · 1914
Broncho Billy and the Bad Man
Film · 1914
Broncho Billy-Guardian
Film · 1914
Snakeville's New Doctor
Film · 1914
A Night on the Road
Film · 1914
Slippery Slim Gets Cured
Film · 1914
Broncho Billy Rewarded
Film · 1914
Snakeville's Peace-Maker
Film · 1914
When Slippery Slim Met the Champion
Film · 1914
A Gamblers' Way
Film · 1914
Slippery Slim, The Mortgage and Sophie
Film · 1914
What Came to Bar Q
Film · 1914
Snakeville and the Corset Demonstrator
Film · 1914
Sophie and the Man of Her Choice
Film · 1914
Slippery Slim and the Impersonator
Film · 1914
Broncho Billy's Sermon
Film · 1914
Broncho Billy's Leap
Film · 1914
Broncho Billy and the Mine Shark
Film · 1914
The Snakeville Volunteer
Film · 1914
Sophie Pulls a Good One
Film · 1914
Sophie Starts Something
Film · 1914
Pie for Sophie
Film · 1914
The Wooing of Sophie
Film · 1914
Sophie Finds a Hero
Film · 1914
Sophie Gets Stung
Film · 1914
A Horse on Sophie
Film · 1914
Sophie's Fatal Wedding
Film · 1914
Snakeville's Reform Wave
Film · 1914
Snakeville's New Waitress
Film · 1914
Broncho Billy Wins Out
Film · 1914
Broncho Billy's Wild Ride
Film · 1914
Broncho Billy, the Vagabond
Film · 1914
Broncho Billy, a Friend in Need
Film · 1914
Slippery Slim -- Diplomat
Film · 1914
The Good-for-Nothing
Film · 1914
The Making of Broncho Billy
Film · 1913
Alkali Ike and the Wildman
Film · 1913
Broncho Billy's First Arrest
Film · 1913
Broncho Billy Reforms
Film · 1913
Broncho Billy's Squareness
Film · 1913
Broncho Billy's Gun Play
Film · 1913
Broncho Billy and the Sheriff's Kid
Film · 1913
Broncho Billy's Gratefulness
Film · 1913
Broncho Billy and the Squatter's Daughter
Film · 1913
Alkali Ike's Homecoming
Film · 1913
Alkali Ike and the Hypnotist
Film · 1913
Alkali Ike's Misfortunes
Film · 1913
The Accusation of Broncho Billy
Film · 1913
Broncho Billy's Oath
Film · 1913
The Last Laugh
Film · 1913
Sophie's Hero
Film · 1913
The Three Gamblers
Film · 1913
A Romance of the Hills
Film · 1913
That Pair from Thespia
Film · 1913
A Snakeville Courtship
Film · 1913
Sophie's New Foreman
Film · 1913
Why Broncho Billy Left Bear County
Film · 1913
Broncho Billy and the Western Girls
Film · 1913
The Tomboy on Bar Z
Film · 1912
Broncho Billy and the Schoolmistress
Film · 1912
A Child of the West
Film · 1912
The Tenderfoot Foreman
Film · 1912
The Biter Bitten
Film · 1912
The Oath of His Office
Film · 1912
Widow Jenkins' Admirers
Film · 1912
The Prospector's Legacy
Film · 1912
The Ranch Girl's Mistake
Film · 1912
Alkali Ike's Pants
Film · 1912
A Story of Montana
Film · 1912
On the Cactus Trail
Film · 1912
Broncho Billy's Pal
Film · 1912
An Indian Sunbeam
Film · 1912
Broncho Billy for Sheriff
Film · 1912
Alkali Ike Plays the Devil
Film · 1912
Alkali Ike Stung!
Film · 1912
Alkali Ike's Close Shave
Film · 1912
An Indian's Friendship
Film · 1912
Broncho Billy's Mexican Wife
Film · 1912
Broncho Billy's Promise
Film · 1912
The Loafer
Film · 1912
Broncho Billy's Narrow Escape
Film · 1912
Alkali Ike Bests Broncho Billy
Film · 1912
Alkali Ike's Auto
Film · 1911
The Count and the Cowboys
Film · 1911
The Border Ranger
Film · 1911
The Two Reformations
Film · 1911
Hank and Lank: They Make a Mash
Film · 1911
The Bad Man's Downfall
Film · 1911
Across the Plains
Film · 1911
The Bunco Game at Lizardhead
Film · 1911
The Sheriff's Chum
Film · 1911
The Indian Maiden's Lesson
Film · 1911
The Puncher's New Love
Film · 1911
The Infant at Snakeville
Film · 1911
The Corporation and the Ranch Girl
Film · 1911
A Hungry Pair
Film · 1911
The Two Fugitives
Film · 1911
Broncho Bill's Last Spree
Film · 1911
The Strike at the Little Jonny Mine
Film · 1911
Town Hall, Tonight
Film · 1911
The Forester's Plea
Film · 1911
Broncho Billy's Christmas Dinner
Film · 1911
Broncho Billy's Adventure
Film · 1911
A Cowboy's Mother-in-Law
Film · 1910
Hank and Lank: Uninvited Guests
Film · 1910
Hank and Lank: They Get Wise to a New Scheme
Film · 1910
The Silent Message
Film · 1910
A Westerner's Way
Film · 1910
Hank and Lank: Lifesavers
Film · 1910
Hank and Lank: As Sandwich Men
Film · 1910
Hank and Lank: Blind Men
Film · 1910
The Tenderfoot Messenger
Film · 1910
Circle C Ranch's Wedding Present
Film · 1910
A Cowboy's Vindication
Film · 1910
The Bad Man's Christmas Gift
Film · 1910
Hank and Lank: Joyriding
Film · 1910
Hank and Lank: They Dude Up Some
Film · 1910
The Tout's Remembrance
Film · 1910
A Dog on Business
Film · 1910
The Bearded Bandit
Film · 1910
Patricia of the Plains
Film · 1910