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.
Movie | The Egg and I | Crowbar | 1947-05-01 |
Movie | The Devil Thumbs a Ride | 1947-02-20 | |
Movie | The Sin of Harold Diddlebock | Prof. Potelle | 1947-04-04 |
Movie | The Glass Alibi | Gas Attendant (as Vic Potel) | 1946-04-27 |
Movie | A Medal for Benny | Pantera Pepster Club Member (uncredited) | 1945-04-16 |
Movie | Flame of Barbary Coast | Train Fireman | 1945-05-28 |
Movie | Rhythm Round-Up | Slim Jensen | 1945-09-06 |
Movie | It Happened Tomorrow | 1944-03-31 | |
Movie | The Great Moment | First Dental Patient | 1944-07-18 |
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 Miracle of Morgan’s Creek | Newspaper Editor | 1943-12-12 |
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 | The Lady from Cheyenne | Lem | 1941-04-11 |
Movie | Ride on Vaquero | Ole | 1941-04-18 |
Movie | Sullivan's Travels | Cameraman | 1941-11-30 |
Movie | Three Faces West | Postman | 1940-07-03 |
Movie | Young Tom Edison | Mr. Tompkins | 1940-03-15 |
Movie | The Great McGinty | Cook (uncredited) | 1940-08-01 |
Movie | Girl from God's Country | Barber | 1940-07-30 |
Movie | The Villain Still Pursued Her | Policeman (uncredited) | 1940-10-11 |
Movie | Li'l Abner | Fantastic Brown | 1940-11-09 |
Movie | Christmas in July | Davenola Salesman | 1940-10-25 |
Movie | Trail of the Vigilantes | Conductor | 1940-12-13 |
Movie | Hollywood Cavalcade | Slim | 1939-10-13 |
Movie | Second Fiddle | Steve - Crane Operator | 1939-06-30 |
Movie | Stand Up and Fight | Coach Driver | 1939-01-06 |
Movie | The Housekeeper's Daughter | Suspect | 1939-10-26 |
Movie | Down the Wyoming Trail | Slim | 1939-06-13 |
Movie | Let Freedom Ring | Ole Swensen (uncredited) | 1939-02-24 |
Movie | Slightly Honorable | Gasoline Station Proprietor (Uncredited) | 1939-12-22 |
Movie | Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence | Ranch Hand | 1939-11-03 |
Movie | Chip of the Flying U | Station Agent | 1939-11-29 |
Movie | Rovin' Tumbleweeds | Man in Store | 1939-11-16 |
Movie | Blondie Brings Up Baby | Lars (uncredited) | 1939-11-08 |
Movie | The Girl of the Golden West | Lem - Stagecoach Driver | 1938-03-18 |
Movie | The Strange Case of Dr. Meade | Steve | 1938-12-15 |
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 | Adventure's End | Tall Sailor (uncredited) | 1937-12-05 |
Movie | Western Gold | Jasper | 1937-08-27 |
Movie | Small Town Boy | Abner Towner | 1937-09-24 |
Movie | Song of the Saddle | Little Casino | 1936-02-28 |
Movie | Three Godfathers | 'Buck Tooth' | 1936-03-06 |
Movie | The Broken Coin | 1936-01-10 | |
Movie | Man Hunt | Townsman Pointing Out Shefiff's Office (uncredited) | 1936-01-29 |
Movie | Down to the Sea | Andy | 1936-05-30 |
Movie | Yellow Dust | Jugger - the Bartender | 1936-03-12 |
Movie | Fury | Jorgeson (uncredited) | 1936-06-05 |
Movie | The Captain's Kid | Deputy Jake Hutchinson | 1936-11-14 |
Movie | O'Malley of the Mounted | Gabby - the Cook | 1936-03-27 |
Movie | Whispering Smith Speaks | Bill Prouty | 1935-05-15 |
Movie | Western Frontier | Slim | 1935-08-07 |
Movie | The Drunkard | Farmer Gates | 1935-04-03 |
Movie | Ruggles of Red Gap | Curly - Cowboy | 1935-03-08 |
Movie | Big Boy Rides Again | Ranch Foreman Scarface | 1935-01-05 |
Movie | Mississippi | Guest (uncredited) | 1935-03-22 |
Movie | The Cowboy and the Bandit | Lanky | 1935-04-02 |
Movie | The Adventures of Rex and Rinty | Kinso | 1935-08-30 |
Movie | Waterfront Lady | Alex | 1935-10-04 |
Movie | Gun Play | Brawler (uncredited) | 1935-12-02 |
Movie | The Last of the Clintons | Jed Clinton | 1935-11-12 |
Movie | The Fighting Marines | Fake Native Chief [Ch. 12] | 1935-11-22 |
Movie | Moonlight on the Prairie | Tall Saloon Cowboy | 1935-11-02 |
Movie | She Couldn't Take It | Farmer | 1935-10-08 |
Movie | Shipmates Forever | Loafer (uncredited) | 1935-10-12 |
Movie | Twisted Rails | Tom Watson | 1934-05-01 |
Movie | Inside Information | Rice - Thin Detective | 1934-09-24 |
Movie | Frontier Days | Deputy Tex Hatch | 1934-11-14 |
Movie | Thunder Over Texas | Dick | 1934-10-18 |
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 | Selling Shorts | Slim Bassil | 1931-11-29 |
Movie | The Squaw Man | Andy | 1931-07-21 |
Movie | Paradise Island | Swede | 1930-07-15 |
Movie | The Bad One | Sailor | 1930-05-03 |
Movie | Call of the West | Trig Peters | 1930-05-10 |
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 | Melody of Love | The Gawk | 1928-10-10 |
Movie | Captain Swagger | Jean | 1928-10-13 |
Movie | Uneasy Payments | Press Agent | 1927-05-04 |
Movie | Morganson's Finish | Ole Jensen | 1926-05-15 |
Movie | The Lodge in the Wilderness | Goofus | 1926-07-11 |
Movie | Racing Romance | Constable | 1926-08-09 |
Movie | Below the Line | 'Cuckoo' Niles | 1925-09-20 |
Movie | Reno | Detective McRae | 1923-12-09 |
Movie | At the Sign of the Jack'O Lantern | The Poet | 1922-01-22 |
Movie | A Tailor-Made Man | Peter | 1922-08-05 |
Movie | The Loaded Door | Slim | 1922-08-14 |
Movie | Quincy Adams Sawyer | Hiram Maxwell | 1922-12-04 |
Movie | Bob Hampton of Placer | Willie McNeil | 1921-05-01 |
Movie | Lavender and Old Lace | Joe Pendleton | 1921-06-01 |
Movie | One a Minute | Jingo Pitts | 1921-06-19 |
Movie | Water, Water, Everywhere | Steve Brainard | 1920-02-08 |
Movie | Billions | Pushkin | 1920-12-06 |
Movie | Captain Kidd, Jr. | Constable Sam | 1919-04-05 |
Movie | Full of Pep | Beanpole | 1919-05-26 |
Movie | A Petal on the Current | 1919-08-03 | |
Movie | The Outcasts of Poker Flat | 1919-06-29 | |
Movie | Hearts and Saddles | 1917-03-31 | |
Movie | Baseball Madness | 1917-05-08 | |
Movie | Just a Few Little Things | Archie | 1916-07-26 |
Movie | What Darwin Missed | Professor Alonzo Bozzle | 1916-08-12 |
Movie | Sentimental Sophie | Slippery Slim | 1915-01-21 |
Movie | When Slippery Slim Went for the Eggs | Slippery Slim | 1915-01-14 |
Movie | The Battle of Snakeville | Slippery Slim | 1915-01-07 |
Movie | When Slippery Slim Bought the Cheese | Slippery Slim | 1915-01-28 |
Movie | Sophie's Home-Coming | Slippery Slim | 1915-02-04 |
Movie | Versus Sledge Hammers | The Count | 1915-09-01 |
Movie | His Regeneration | Pawn Shop Clerk | 1915-05-07 |
Movie | Slim the Brave and Sophie the Fair | Slippery Slim | 1915-02-11 |
Movie | The Wooing of Sophie | Slippery Slim | 1914-06-18 |
Movie | The Snakeville Volunteer | Slippery Slim | 1914-06-11 |
Movie | Sophie Finds a Hero | Slippery Slim | 1914-06-25 |
Movie | Snakeville's New Waitress | Slippery Slim | 1914-07-16 |
Movie | The Good-for-Nothing | Old Clerk | 1914-06-08 |
Movie | Slippery Slim -- Diplomat | Slippery Slim | 1914-07-09 |
Movie | Sophie Gets Stung | Slippery Slim | 1914-07-02 |
Movie | Sophie Starts Something | Slippery Slim | 1914-05-28 |
Movie | A Gamblers' Way | The Bartender | 1914-02-05 |
Movie | A Night on the Road | Sheriff's Assistant | 1914-01-22 |
Movie | Pie for Sophie | Snicklefritz | 1914-04-30 |
Movie | Broncho Billy's Sermon | The Sheriff | 1914-05-09 |
Movie | Broncho Billy, the Vagabond | 1914-09-05 | |
Movie | Sophie Pulls a Good One | Slippery Slim | 1914-06-04 |
Movie | A Horse on Sophie | Slippery Slim | 1914-11-19 |
Movie | Slippery Slim Gets Cured | Slippery Slim | 1914-10-01 |
Movie | Sophie's Fatal Wedding | Slippery Slim | 1914-12-03 |
Movie | Snakeville's Blind Pig | Slippery Slim | 1914-12-17 |
Movie | Slippery Slim Gets Square | Slippery Slim | 1914-12-24 |
Movie | Snakeville's Rising Sons | Slippery Slim | 1914-12-31 |
Movie | Snakeville's Reform Wave | Slippery Slim | 1914-11-26 |
Movie | Sophie's Sweetheart | Slippery Slim | 1914-12-10 |
Movie | Snakeville's Peace-Maker | Slippery Slim | 1914-10-15 |
Movie | When Slippery Slim Met the Champion | Slippery Slim | 1914-10-08 |
Movie | Snakeville and the Corset Demonstrator | Slippery Slim | 1914-10-29 |
Movie | Slippery Slim, The Mortgage and Sophie | Slippery Slim | 1914-10-22 |
Movie | Sophie and the Man of Her Choice | Slippery Slim | 1914-11-12 |
Movie | Slippery Slim and the Impersonator | Slippery Slim | 1914-11-05 |
Movie | Alkali Ike and the Hypnotist | Slippery Slim | 1913-06-21 |
Movie | Alkali Ike's Misfortunes | Slippery Slim | 1913-05-31 |
Movie | Broncho Billy and the Western Girls | Outlaw | 1913-07-12 |
Movie | Alkali Ike's Homecoming | Slippery Slim | 1913-04-19 |
Movie | The Making of Broncho Billy | 1913-02-01 | |
Movie | Broncho Billy Reforms | A Thief | 1913-09-13 |
Movie | Broncho Billy and the Sheriff's Kid | Jailer | 1913-02-22 |
Movie | Broncho Billy and the Squatter's Daughter | 1913-03-08 | |
Movie | That Pair from Thespia | Second Actor | 1913-12-25 |
Movie | Why Broncho Billy Left Bear County | The Druggist | 1913-09-27 |
Movie | Sophie's New Foreman | Slippery Slim | 1913-12-13 |
Movie | A Snakeville Courtship | Slippery Slim | 1913-12-27 |
Movie | Broncho Billy's Squareness | 1913-12-06 | |
Movie | The Three Gamblers | 1913-12-12 | |
Movie | A Romance of the Hills | 1913-12-04 | |
Movie | The Last Laugh | 1913-11-12 | |
Movie | Sophie's Hero | Slippery Slim | 1913-11-29 |
Movie | The Ranch Girl's Mistake | 1912-03-02 | |
Movie | Alkali Ike Bests Broncho Billy | 1912-03-26 | |
Movie | Broncho Billy's Narrow Escape | 1912-07-05 | |
Movie | On the Cactus Trail | 1912-07-02 | |
Movie | A Child of the West | 1912-01-06 | |
Movie | A Story of Montana | 1912-07-13 | |
Movie | The Loafer | 1912-01-20 | |
Movie | Widow Jenkins' Admirers | 1912-01-23 | |
Movie | Broncho Billy and the Schoolmistress | 1912-02-02 | |
Movie | The Prospector's Legacy | 1912-02-17 | |
Movie | Broncho Billy's Mexican Wife | 1912-11-30 | |
Movie | Broncho Billy's Promise | 1912-12-21 | |
Movie | Broncho Billy's Pal | 1912-07-30 | |
Movie | Alkali Ike Stung! | 1912-10-08 | |
Movie | The Tomboy on Bar Z | 1912-10-21 | |
Movie | Alkali Ike's Pants | 1912-09-21 | |
Movie | Broncho Billy for Sheriff | 1912-08-31 | |
Movie | The Tenderfoot Foreman | 1912-09-11 | |
Movie | Alkali Ike Plays the Devil | 1912-08-27 | |
Movie | Across the Plains | 1911-04-11 | |
Movie | The Sheriff's Chum | 1911-04-08 | |
Movie | The Count and the Cowboys | The Count | 1911-01-07 |
Movie | The Indian Maiden's Lesson | 1911-04-22 | |
Movie | The Two Reformations | 1911-01-28 | |
Movie | Alkali Ike's Auto | 1911-05-19 | |
Movie | The Puncher's New Love | 1911-05-13 | |
Movie | Broncho Billy's Christmas Dinner | 1911-12-23 | |
Movie | Town Hall, Tonight | The Tall Schultz Brother | 1911-10-07 |
Movie | The Corporation and the Ranch Girl | 1911-07-08 | |
Movie | The Infant at Snakeville | 1911-06-03 | |
Movie | The Silent Message | 1910-10-29 | |
Movie | The Tout's Remembrance | 1910-09-24 | |
Movie | A Westerner's Way | 1910-11-05 | |
Movie | The Bad Man's Christmas Gift | 1910-12-24 | |
Movie | A Cowboy's Vindication | 1910-12-10 | |
Movie | Circle C Ranch's Wedding Present | 1910-12-03 | |
Movie | Hank and Lank: As Sandwich Men | Lank | 1910-11-22 |