Cast

Victor Potel

Acting

Cast

Victor Potel

Known for

Acting

Born

1889-10-12

From

Lafayette, Indiana, USA

Died

1947-03-08

Also known as Vic Potel

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.

Victor Potel

Victor Potel

Biography

His Regeneration

Captain Swagger

A Lost Lady

Itching Palms

Partners

Sophie's Home-Coming

Frontier Days

Billions

Sophie's Hero

Sullivan's Travels

Ten Cents a Dance

Sentimental Sophie

Refuge

Gun Play

Sophie's Fatal Wedding

The Adventures of Rex and Rinty

The Villain Still Pursued Her

Down to the Sea

Sophie Pulls a Good One

A Medal for Benny

Racing Romance

The Lady Eve

Young Tom Edison

Morganson's Finish

Snakeville's New Waitress

Scandal Sheet

She Couldn't Take It

Let Freedom Ring

Sophie Gets Stung

The Squaw Man

Pie for Sophie

Contraband

Waterfront Lady

The Marriage Bargain

Flame of Barbary Coast

In Mizzoura

Stand Up and Fight

The Sheik of Hollywood

Fury

Broncho Billy's Christmas Dinner

Border Romance

The Meanest Man in the World

Shipmates Forever

The Loafer

Face in the Sky

It Happened Tomorrow

Below the Line

Bob Hampton of Placer

Mississippi

Sophie Finds a Hero

Wagon Wheels West

Broncho Billy's Leap

The Housekeeper's Daughter

Mary's Ankle

The Wooing of Sophie

Hollywood Cavalcade

Hail the Conquering Hero

The Bachelor's Burglar

Snakeville's Rising Sons

Trail of the Vigilantes

The Fighting Marines

Slippery Slim, The Mortgage and Sophie

Who's Your Father?

Broncho Billy's Wild Ride

Alkali Ike's Auto

Quincy Adams Sawyer

Sophie's Sweetheart

The Palm Beach Story

Sophie Starts Something

Sophie and the Man of Her Choice

Slippery Slim and the Impersonator

Lavender and Old Lace

The Man in the Trunk

The Last of the Clintons

King of the Wild

Slim the Brave and Sophie the Fair

Three Godfathers