Victor Potel

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.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1889-10-12
Place of Birth: Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Also Known As: Vic Potel

Movies List of Victor Potel

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Forward, March!

1930 Movie
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The Good Fellows

1943 Movie
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Adventure's End

1937 Movie
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The Palm Beach Story

1942 Movie
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The Tomboy on Bar Z

1912 Movie
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Alkali Ike's Auto

1911 Movie
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The Bad One

1930 Movie
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King of the Wild

1931 Movie
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Christmas in July

1940 Movie
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Who's Your Father?

1918 Movie
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Call of the West

1930 Movie
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The Virginian

1929 Movie
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Western Gold

1937 Movie
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The Heart of a Child

1920 Movie
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Sophie's Home-Coming

1915 Movie
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Sophie's Sweetheart

1914 Movie
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Sentimental Sophie

1915 Movie
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Ingomar of the Hills

1915 Movie
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Sullivan's Travels

1941 Movie
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Quincy Adams Sawyer

1922 Movie
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Baseball Madness

1917 Movie
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The Fighting Marines

1935 Movie
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Partners

1932 Movie
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The Silent Message

1910 Movie
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A Westerner's Way

1910 Movie
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The Border Ranger

1911 Movie
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A Child of the West

1912 Movie
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The Biter Bitten

1912 Movie
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The Two Reformations

1911 Movie
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The Sheriff's Chum

1911 Movie
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Across the Plains

1911 Movie
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A Hungry Pair

1911 Movie
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Alkali Ike's Pants

1912 Movie
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Broncho Billy Reforms

1913 Movie
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The Two Fugitives

1911 Movie
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Town Hall, Tonight

1911 Movie
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The Forester's Plea

1911 Movie
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A Dog on Business

1910 Movie
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The Bearded Bandit

1910 Movie
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On the Cactus Trail

1912 Movie
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A Story of Montana

1912 Movie
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Broncho Billy's Pal

1912 Movie
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An Indian Sunbeam

1912 Movie
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Alkali Ike Stung!

1912 Movie
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Broncho Billy's Oath

1913 Movie
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The Last Laugh

1913 Movie
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The Three Gamblers

1913 Movie
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Sophie's Hero

1913 Movie
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A Night on the Road

1914 Movie
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Sophie's New Foreman

1913 Movie
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A Gamblers' Way

1914 Movie
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What Came to Bar Q

1914 Movie
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Broncho Billy's Leap

1914 Movie
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The Revenue Agent

1915 Movie
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Pie for Sophie

1914 Movie
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The Wooing of Sophie

1914 Movie
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Sophie Finds a Hero

1914 Movie
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Sophie Gets Stung

1914 Movie
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A Horse on Sophie

1914 Movie
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A Tailor-Made Man

1922 Movie
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Lavender and Old Lace

1921 Movie
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Damaged Lives

1933 Movie
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The Broken Coin

1936 Movie
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The Good-for-Nothing

1914 Movie
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The Drunkard

1935 Movie
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Big Boy Rides Again

1935 Movie
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Step on It!

1922 Movie
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The Loaded Door

1922 Movie
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Three Godfathers

1936 Movie
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One a Minute

1921 Movie
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The Squaw Man

1931 Movie
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The Virtuous Sin

1930 Movie
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Down to the Sea

1936 Movie
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Selling Shorts

1931 Movie
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Captain Kidd, Jr.

1919 Movie
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Border Romance

1929 Movie
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It Happened Tomorrow

1944 Movie
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Small Town Boy

1937 Movie
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Gun Play

1935 Movie
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Frontier Days

1934 Movie
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Bob Hampton of Placer

1921 Movie
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Full of Pep

1919 Movie
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Below the Line

1925 Movie
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Thunder Over Texas

1934 Movie
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Reno

1923 Movie
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Pot o' Gold

1941 Movie
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Western Frontier

1935 Movie
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Hollywood Cavalcade

1939 Movie
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Yellow Dust

1936 Movie
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Scandal Sheet

1931 Movie
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Face in the Sky

1933 Movie
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Stand Up and Fight

1939 Movie
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Mississippi

1935 Movie
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Let Freedom Ring

1939 Movie
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Second Fiddle

1939 Movie
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Slightly Honorable

1939 Movie
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Doughboys

1930 Movie
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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum

1933 Movie
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Paradise Island

1930 Movie
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Fury

1936 Movie
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Rovin' Tumbleweeds

1939 Movie
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The Man in the Trunk

1942 Movie
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Ten Cents a Dance

1931 Movie
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Young Tom Edison

1940 Movie
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The Lady Eve

1941 Movie
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What Darwin Missed

1916 Movie
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The Loafer

1912 Movie
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Inside Information

1934 Movie
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Mary's Ankle

1920 Movie
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Chip of the Flying U

1939 Movie
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Ride on Vaquero

1941 Movie
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Two Gun Law

1937 Movie
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Song of the Saddle

1936 Movie
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Man Hunt

1936 Movie
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White Bondage

1937 Movie
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Waterfront Lady

1935 Movie
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The Great McGinty

1940 Movie
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Li'l Abner

1940 Movie
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Three Faces West

1940 Movie
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Captain Swagger

1928 Movie
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The Captain's Kid

1936 Movie
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The Glass Alibi

1946 Movie
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Hearts and Saddles

1917 Movie
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Rhythm Round-Up

1945 Movie
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Versus Sledge Hammers

1915 Movie
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His Regeneration

1915 Movie
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Ruggles of Red Gap

1935 Movie
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Shipmates Forever

1935 Movie
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Wagon Wheels West

1943 Movie
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Melody of Love

1928 Movie
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Uneasy Payments

1927 Movie
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Billions

1920 Movie
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Racing Romance

1926 Movie
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Morganson's Finish

1926 Movie
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She Couldn't Take It

1935 Movie
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The Egg and I

1947 Movie
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A Medal for Benny

1945 Movie
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Ten Days

1925 Movie
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Twisted Rails

1934 Movie
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The Great Moment

1944 Movie