Victor Potel
Acting
Born 1889-10-12
Died 1947-03-08
Lafayette, Indiana, USA
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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.
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Sullivan's Travels
Fury
Christmas in July
The Lady Eve
The Palm Beach Story
The Egg and I
Hail the Conquering Hero
His Regeneration
Sentimental Sophie
Captain Swagger
Contraband
Young Tom Edison
Pot o' Gold
Itching Palms
The Great McGinty
Partners
Ten Cents a Dance
Three Godfathers
Mississippi
A Lost Lady
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
In Mizzoura
Bob Hampton of Placer
Blondie Brings Up Baby
Billions
Flame of Barbary Coast
Three Faces West
The Lady from Cheyenne
Sophie Pulls a Good One
Frontier Days
Refuge
The Great Moment
Racing Romance
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Modern Matrimony
Stand Up and Fight
Laughing at Trouble
Sophie's Home-Coming
The Virtuous Sin
The Villain Still Pursued Her
Second Fiddle
Small Town Boy
Ruggles of Red Gap
Shipmates Forever
She Couldn't Take It
Lavender and Old Lace
The Girl of the Golden West
God's Country and the Woman
The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
Adventure's End
Damaged Lives
The Good Fellows
Scandal Sheet
The Squaw Man
Strange Illusion
Chip of the Flying U
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