Victor Potel
Acting1889-10-12Lafayette, Indiana, USA
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.
出演作品（215）
Below the Line
激怒
Song of the Saddle
Sullivan's Travels
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
レディ・イヴ
Hail the Conquering Hero
The Egg and I
人生は四十二から
The Palm Beach Story
Christmas in July
The Great McGinty
Three Godfathers
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
It Happened Tomorrow
The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
Mississippi
Ten Cents a Dance
Border Romance
Blondie Brings Up Baby
Shipmates Forever
The Devil Thumbs a Ride
Moonlight on the Prairie
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
The Bad One
One a Minute
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
The Fighting Marines
What Came to Bar Q
The Cowboy and the Bandit
Let Freedom Ring
Doughboys
White Bondage
The Captain's Kid
Wagon Wheels West
The Lodge in the Wilderness
Laughing at Trouble
Stand Up and Fight
Li'l Abner
Young Tom Edison
Hollywood Cavalcade
Inside Information
The Virginian
The Great Moment
Pot o' Gold
The Last of the Clintons
Three Faces West
Flame of Barbary Coast
Adventure's End
The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
The Making of Broncho Billy
The Good-for-Nothing
Big Boy Rides Again
The Squaw Man
Gun Play
On the Great White Trail
Thunder Over Texas
Versus Sledge Hammers
Billions
Why Broncho Billy Left Bear County
Broncho Billy and the Western Girls
Broncho Billy's Narrow Escape
Yankee Fakir
Second Fiddle
The Villain Still Pursued Her
Face in the Sky
Slightly Honorable
The Lady from Cheyenne
The Girl of the Golden West
Broncho Billy and the Schoolmistress
Rovin' Tumbleweeds
She Couldn't Take It
A Medal for Benny
Broncho Billy's Christmas Dinner
Damaged Lives
大森林
The Virtuous Sin
Ride on Vaquero
His Regeneration
The Tomboy on Bar Z
Alkali Ike's Auto
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Down the Wyoming Trail
Waterfront Lady
Twisted Rails
Broncho Billy's Adventure
Alkali Ike Bests Broncho Billy
The Glass Alibi
Yellow Dust
The Housekeeper's Daughter
Paradise Island
King of the Wild
Frontier Days
De frente, marchen
The Good Fellows
Who's Your Father?
Call of the West
Western Gold
The Heart of a Child
Broncho Billy and the Sisters
Slim the Brave and Sophie the Fair
Sophie's Home-Coming
When Slippery Slim Went for the Eggs
The Battle of Snakeville
Snakeville's Blind Pig
Broncho Billy and the Sheriff's Office
Snakeville's Rising Sons
Slippery Slim Gets Square
Sentimental Sophie
When Slippery Slim Bought the Cheese
Alkali Ike and the Wildman
Ingomar of the Hills
Broncho Billy's First Arrest
Quincy Adams Sawyer
Partners
A Westerner's Way
A Child of the West
Across the Plains
Broncho Billy and the Red Man
Broncho Billy and the Bad Man
The Corporation and the Ranch Girl
Broncho Billy-Guardian
Broncho Billy Reforms
Alkali Ike's Pants
Broncho Bill's Last Spree
The Strike at the Little Jonny Mine
Town Hall, Tonight
Broncho Billy's Squareness
Broncho Billy and the Vigilante
A Story of Montana
Broncho Billy's Pal
Broncho Billy for Sheriff
Alkali Ike Plays the Devil
Alkali Ike Stung!
An Indian's Friendship
Broncho Billy's Mexican Wife
Broncho Billy's Promise
Broncho Billy and the Sheriff's Kid
Broncho Billy's Gratefulness
Alkali Ike and the Hypnotist
Alkali Ike's Misfortunes
Snakeville's New Doctor
The Last Laugh
Sophie's Hero
The Three Gamblers
A Romance of the Hills
That Pair from Thespia
A Snakeville Courtship
A Night on the Road
Sophie's New Foreman
Slippery Slim Gets Cured
Broncho Billy Rewarded
Snakeville's Peace-Maker
When Slippery Slim Met the Champion
A Gamblers' Way
Slippery Slim, The Mortgage and Sophie
Snakeville and the Corset Demonstrator
Sophie and the Man of Her Choice
Slippery Slim and the Impersonator
Broncho Billy's Leap
Broncho Billy and the Mine Shark
The Bachelor's Burglar
The Snakeville Volunteer
Sophie Pulls a Good One
Sophie Starts Something
Pie for Sophie
The Wooing of Sophie
Sophie Finds a Hero
Sophie Gets Stung
A Horse on Sophie
Sophie's Fatal Wedding
Snakeville's Reform Wave
Snakeville's New Waitress
Broncho Billy, a Friend in Need
Slippery Slim -- Diplomat
A Tailor-Made Man
Lavender and Old Lace
The Drunkard
The Loaded Door
Step on It!
Captain Kidd, Jr.
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
Bob Hampton of Placer
Full of Pep
Water, Water, Everywhere
Reno
Western Frontier
Scandal Sheet
Whispering Smith Speaks
The Man in the Trunk
Mary's Ankle
Chip of the Flying U
Trail of the Vigilantes
Two Gun Law
Man Hunt
Captain Swagger
Rhythm Round-Up
Hearts and Saddles
At the Sign of the Jack'O Lantern
Melody of Love
A Petal on the Current
Girl from God's Country
Ten Days
O'Malley of the Mounted
What Price Beauty?
A Lost Lady
The Law Forbids
The Bar-C Mystery
The Amateur Adventuress
Contraband
The Meanest Man in the World
Refuge
Modern Matrimony
In Mizzoura
Itching Palms