Victor Potel
Victor Potel was born in Lafayette, Indiana, in 1889. His first film was in 1910, for Essanay Film Manufacturing Company in Chicago. Potel worked for Essanay in most of the Broncho Billy series, as well as playing a character called "Slippery Sam" in almost 80 movies as well as Universal Pictures' "Snakeville" series. He moved to Universal in 1928 to make Melody of Love (1928) and worked steadily, playing small and sometimes uncredited bit parts, primarily comic roles due to his height and awkward look. Potel also wrote and directed. In 1935 he provided continuity and dialogue for several films. He became part of Preston Sturges' stock of character actors, appearing in nine films written and directed by Sturges. Potel work until his death on 8 March 1947, just after finishing playing "Barfly" in Relentless (1948). Date of Birth 12 October 1889, Lafayette, Indiana Date of Death 8 March 1947, Hollywood, California
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- Born:
- Oct 12, 1889 In Lafayette, Indiana, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 149
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Tout's Remembrance 1910-09-24
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Egg and I 1947-05-01
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Devil Thumbs a Ride | 1947-02-20 | |
| Movie | Yankee Fakir | Contest Chairman | 1947-04-01 |
| Movie | The Sin of Harold Diddlebock | Prof. Potelle | 1947-04-04 |
| Movie | The Egg and I | Crowbar | 1947-05-01 |
| Movie | The Glass Alibi | Gas Attendant (as Vic Potel) | 1946-04-27 |
| Movie | Rhythm Round-Up | Slim Jensen | 1945-09-06 |
| Movie | A Medal for Benny | Pantera Pepster Club Member (uncredited) | 1945-04-16 |
| Movie | Flame of Barbary Coast | Train Fireman | 1945-05-28 |
| Movie | It Happened Tomorrow | 1944-03-31 | |
| Movie | The Great Moment | First Dental Patient | 1944-07-18 |
| Movie | The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek | Newspaper Editor | 1944-09-18 |
| Movie | Hail the Conquering Hero | Progressive Bandleader (uncredited) | 1944-08-09 |
| Movie | The Good Fellows | Branders (uncredited) | 1943-08-11 |
| Movie | Wagon Wheels West | Posse Rider (uncredited) | 1943-10-30 |
| Movie | The Palm Beach Story | Mr. McKeewie | 1942-08-28 |
| Movie | The Man in the Trunk | Deaf Floor Man (uncredited) | 1942-09-19 |
| Movie | The Lady Eve | Second Steward (uncredited) | 1941-02-25 |
| Movie | Pot o' Gold | Olaf Svenson (uncredited) | 1941-04-03 |
| Movie | Sullivan's Travels | Cameraman | 1941-11-30 |
| Movie | The Lady from Cheyenne | Lem | 1941-04-11 |
| Movie | Ride on Vaquero | Ole | 1941-04-18 |
| Movie | Girl from God's Country | Barber | 1940-07-30 |
| Movie | Young Tom Edison | Mr. Tompkins | 1940-03-15 |
| Movie | Three Faces West | Postman | 1940-07-03 |
| Movie | The Great McGinty | Cook (uncredited) | 1940-08-01 |
| Movie | The Villain Still Pursued Her | Policeman (uncredited) | 1940-10-11 |
| Movie | Li'l Abner | Fantastic Brown | 1940-11-09 |
| Movie | Trail of the Vigilantes | Conductor | 1940-12-13 |
| Movie | Christmas in July | Davenola Salesman | 1940-10-25 |
| Movie | Down the Wyoming Trail | Slim | 1939-06-13 |
| Movie | Let Freedom Ring | Ole Swensen (uncredited) | 1939-02-24 |
| Movie | Stand Up and Fight | Coach Driver | 1939-01-06 |
| Movie | The Housekeeper's Daughter | Suspect | 1939-10-26 |
| Movie | Hollywood Cavalcade | Slim | 1939-10-13 |
| Movie | Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence | Ranch Hand | 1939-11-03 |
| Movie | Rovin' Tumbleweeds | Man in Store | 1939-11-16 |
| Movie | Chip of the Flying U | Station Agent | 1939-11-29 |
| Movie | Slightly Honorable | Gasoline Station Proprietor (Uncredited) | 1939-12-22 |
| Movie | Blondie Brings Up Baby | Lars (uncredited) | 1939-11-08 |
| Movie | The Girl of the Golden West | Lem - Stagecoach Driver | 1938-03-18 |
| Movie | On the Great White Trail | Lyons | 1938-07-22 |
| Movie | Two Gun Law | Cassius | 1937-04-06 |
| Movie | White Bondage | Luke Stacey | 1937-08-05 |
| Movie | God's Country and the Woman | Turpentine | 1937-01-16 |
| Movie | Small Town Boy | Abner Towner | 1937-09-24 |
| Movie | Western Gold | Jasper | 1937-08-27 |
| Movie | Adventure's End | Tall Sailor (uncredited) | 1937-12-05 |
| Movie | Three Godfathers | 'Buck Tooth' | 1936-03-06 |
| Movie | Man Hunt | Townsman Pointing Out Shefiff's Office (uncredited) | 1936-01-29 |
| Movie | O'Malley of the Mounted | Gabby - the Cook | 1936-03-27 |
| Movie | Song of the Saddle | Little Casino | 1936-02-28 |
| Movie | Yellow Dust | Jugger - the Bartender | 1936-03-12 |
| Movie | Down to the Sea | Andy | 1936-05-30 |
| Movie | The Captain's Kid | Deputy Jake Hutchinson | 1936-11-14 |
| Movie | Laughing at Trouble | Lem Parker | 1936-12-11 |
| Movie | Fury | Jorgeson (uncredited) | 1936-06-05 |
| Movie | The Drunkard | Farmer Gates | 1935-04-03 |
| Movie | Whispering Smith Speaks | Bill Prouty | 1935-05-15 |
| Movie | The Cowboy and the Bandit | Lanky | 1935-04-02 |
| Movie | Ruggles of Red Gap | Curly - Cowboy | 1935-03-08 |
| Movie | Big Boy Rides Again | Ranch Foreman Scarface | 1935-01-05 |
| Movie | Western Frontier | Slim | 1935-08-07 |
| Movie | Mississippi | Guest (uncredited) | 1935-03-22 |
| Movie | She Couldn't Take It | Farmer | 1935-10-08 |
| Movie | The Fighting Marines | Fake Native Chief [Ch. 12] | 1935-11-22 |
| Movie | Gun Play | Brawler (uncredited) | 1935-12-02 |
| Movie | The Last of the Clintons | Jed Clinton | 1935-11-12 |
| Movie | Moonlight on the Prairie | Tall Saloon Cowboy | 1935-11-02 |
| Movie | Waterfront Lady | Alex | 1935-10-04 |
| Movie | Shipmates Forever | Loafer (uncredited) | 1935-10-12 |
| Movie | The Adventures of Rex and Rinty | Kinso | 1935-08-30 |
| Movie | Inside Information | Rice - Thin Detective | 1934-09-24 |
| Movie | Twisted Rails | Tom Watson | 1934-05-01 |
| Movie | Thunder Over Texas | Dick | 1934-10-18 |
| Movie | Frontier Days | Deputy Tex Hatch | 1934-11-14 |
| Movie | Face in the Sky | Ed Burns, Carnival Patron (uncredited) | 1933-01-15 |
| Movie | Hallelujah, I'm a Bum | The General | 1933-02-03 |
| Movie | Damaged Lives | Undetermined Role | 1933-09-15 |
| Movie | Partners | Deputy Lem | 1932-01-08 |
| Movie | Ten Cents a Dance | Smith, a Sailor | 1931-01-30 |
| Movie | Scandal Sheet | Reporter | 1931-01-31 |
| Movie | King of the Wild | Peterson | 1931-03-01 |
| Movie | The Squaw Man | Andy | 1931-07-21 |
| Movie | Selling Shorts | Slim Bassil | 1931-11-29 |
| Movie | Call of the West | Trig Peters | 1930-05-10 |
| Movie | The Bad One | Sailor | 1930-05-03 |
| Movie | Paradise Island | Swede | 1930-07-15 |
| Movie | Doughboys | Svendenburg | 1930-08-30 |
| Movie | Forward, March! | 1930-12-11 | |
| Movie | The Virtuous Sin | Sentry | 1930-10-24 |
| Movie | Border Romance | Slim | 1929-05-25 |
| Movie | The Virginian | Nebrasky | 1929-11-09 |
| Movie | Captain Swagger | Jean | 1928-10-13 |
| Movie | What Price Beauty? | 1928-01-22 | |
| Movie | Ten Days | 1925-01-05 | |
| Movie | Below the Line | 'Cuckoo' Niles | 1925-09-20 |
| Movie | The Law Forbids | Joel Andrews | 1924-04-07 |
| Movie | A Lost Lady | Ivy Peters | 1924-12-18 |
| Movie | Reno | Detective McRae | 1923-12-09 |
| Movie | A Tailor-Made Man | Peter | 1922-08-05 |
| Movie | At the Sign of the Jack'O Lantern | The Poet | 1922-01-22 |
| Movie | The Loaded Door | Slim | 1922-08-14 |
| Movie | Quincy Adams Sawyer | Hiram Maxwell | 1922-12-04 |
| Movie | Lavender and Old Lace | Joe Pendleton | 1921-06-01 |
| Movie | Bob Hampton of Placer | Willie McNeil | 1921-05-01 |
| Movie | One a Minute | Jingo Pitts | 1921-06-19 |
| Movie | Water, Water, Everywhere | Steve Brainard | 1920-02-08 |
| Movie | Mary's Ankle | Johnny Stokes | 1920-02-29 |
| Movie | Full of Pep | Beanpole | 1919-05-26 |
| Movie | Captain Kidd, Jr. | Constable Sam | 1919-04-05 |
| Movie | The Outcasts of Poker Flat | 1919-06-29 | |
| Movie | Hearts and Saddles | 1917-03-31 | |
| Movie | Baseball Madness | 1917-05-08 | |
| Movie | What Darwin Missed | Professor Alonzo Bozzle | 1916-08-12 |
| Movie | Versus Sledge Hammers | The Count | 1915-09-01 |
| Movie | His Regeneration | Pawn Shop Clerk | 1915-05-07 |
| Movie | A Night on the Road | Sheriff's Assistant | 1914-01-22 |
| Movie | The Good-for-Nothing | Old Clerk | 1914-06-08 |
| Movie | A Gamblers' Way | The Bartender | 1914-02-05 |
| Movie | Alkali Ike and the Hypnotist | Slippery Slim | 1913-06-21 |
| Movie | Broncho Billy and the Squatter's Daughter | 1913-03-08 | |
| Movie | Broncho Billy and the Western Girls | Outlaw | 1913-07-12 |
| Movie | Broncho Billy's Gun Play | 1913-01-25 | |
| Movie | Broncho Billy and the Sheriff's Kid | Jailer | 1913-02-22 |
| Movie | The Making of Broncho Billy | 1913-02-01 | |
| Movie | The Three Gamblers | 1913-12-12 | |
| Movie | Why Broncho Billy Left Bear County | The Druggist | 1913-09-27 |
| Movie | Broncho Billy's Squareness | 1913-12-06 | |
| Movie | That Pair from Thespia | Second Actor | 1913-12-25 |
| Movie | A Romance of the Hills | 1913-12-04 | |
| Movie | The Last Laugh | 1913-11-12 | |
| Movie | The Prospector's Legacy | 1912-02-17 | |
| Movie | Alkali Ike Bests Broncho Billy | 1912-03-26 | |
| Movie | Widow Jenkins' Admirers | 1912-01-23 | |
| Movie | The Loafer | 1912-01-20 | |
| Movie | Broncho Billy and the Schoolmistress | 1912-02-02 | |
| Movie | On the Cactus Trail | 1912-07-02 | |
| Movie | Broncho Billy's Promise | 1912-12-21 | |
| Movie | Broncho Billy's Narrow Escape | 1912-07-05 | |
| Movie | Broncho Billy's Mexican Wife | 1912-11-30 | |
| Movie | The Tomboy on Bar Z | 1912-10-21 | |
| Movie | A Story of Montana | 1912-07-13 | |
| Movie | The Two Reformations | 1911-01-28 | |
| Movie | Broncho Billy's Christmas Dinner | 1911-12-23 | |
| Movie | The Sheriff's Chum | 1911-04-08 | |
| Movie | The Tout's Remembrance | 1910-09-24 | |
| Movie | The Silent Message | 1910-10-29 | |
| Movie | A Westerner's Way | 1910-11-05 | |
| Movie | A Cowboy's Vindication | 1910-12-10 |