Acting
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.
Sullivan's Travels
1941 · Movie
Fury
1936 · Movie
Hail the Conquering Hero
1944 · Movie
The Lady Eve
1941 · Movie
Sentimental Sophie
1915 · Movie
The Palm Beach Story
1942 · Movie
Alkali Ike Bests Broncho Billy
1912 · Movie
His Regeneration
1915 · Movie
Captain Swagger
1928 · Movie
Refuge
1923 · Movie
A Lost Lady
1924 · Movie
Sophie's Home-Coming
1915 · Movie
Contraband
1925 · Movie
Partners
1932 · Movie
The Villain Still Pursued Her
1940 · Movie
It Happened Tomorrow
1944 · Movie
The Bar-C Mystery
1926 · Movie
Christmas in July
1940 · Movie
Itching Palms
1923 · Movie
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
1944 · Movie
Stand Up and Fight
1939 · Movie
Ten Cents a Dance
1931 · Movie
The Lady from Cheyenne
1941 · Movie
The Egg and I
1947 · Movie
Flame of Barbary Coast
1945 · Movie
The Squaw Man
1931 · Movie
Gun Play
1935 · Movie
In Mizzoura
1919 · Movie
Billions
1920 · Movie
Young Tom Edison
1940 · Movie
Slippery Slim, The Mortgage and Sophie
1914 · Movie
Below the Line
1925 · Movie
The Great McGinty
1940 · Movie
The Virginian
1929 · Movie
King of the Wild
1931 · Movie
The Housekeeper's Daughter
1939 · Movie
Sophie's Fatal Wedding
1914 · Movie
Ruggles of Red Gap
1935 · Movie
Slippery Slim and the Impersonator
1914 · Movie
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
1947 · Movie
Broncho Billy's Christmas Dinner
1911 · Movie
The Meanest Man in the World
1923 · Movie
The Girl of the Golden West
1938 · Movie
Moonlight on the Prairie
1935 · Movie
Sophie and the Man of Her Choice
1914 · Movie
Sophie Pulls a Good One
1914 · Movie
Broncho Billy's Mexican Wife
1912 · Movie
Sophie's Hero
1913 · Movie
A Horse on Sophie
1914 · Movie
She Couldn't Take It
1935 · Movie
The Great Moment
1944 · Movie
Frontier Days
1934 · Movie
God's Country and the Woman
1937 · Movie
Broncho Billy and the Western Girls
1913 · Movie
Man Hunt
1936 · Movie
Slightly Honorable
1939 · Movie
The Amateur Adventuress
1919 · Movie
When Slippery Slim Bought the Cheese
1915 · Movie
Let Freedom Ring
1939 · Movie
Trail of the Vigilantes
1940 · Movie
Sophie Starts Something
1914 · Movie
The Battle of Snakeville
1915 · Movie
Who's Your Father?
1918 · Movie
Snakeville's Rising Sons
1914 · Movie
Three Faces West
1940 · Movie
Three Godfathers
1936 · Movie
A Romance of the Hills
1913 · Movie
Strange Illusion
1945 · Movie
Lavender and Old Lace
1921 · Movie
The Wooing of Sophie
1914 · Movie
The Man in the Trunk
1942 · Movie
Broncho Billy and the Vigilante
1915 · Movie
Quincy Adams Sawyer
1922 · Movie
The Devil Thumbs a Ride
1947 · Movie
Wagon Wheels West
1943 · Movie
The Loaded Door
1922 · Movie
Pie for Sophie
1914 · Movie
Broncho Billy's Gratefulness
1913 · Movie
Sophie Gets Stung
1914 · Movie
Call of the West
1930 · Movie
Sophie Finds a Hero
1914 · Movie
Mary's Ankle
1920 · Movie
Snakeville's Reform Wave
1914 · Movie
A Gamblers' Way
1914 · Movie
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
1928 · Movie
An Indian's Friendship
1912 · Movie
Snakeville's Blind Pig
1914 · Movie
Bob Hampton of Placer
1921 · Movie
Town Hall, Tonight
1911 · Movie
Laughing at Trouble
1936 · Movie
Hollywood Cavalcade
1939 · Movie
Pot o' Gold
1941 · Movie
What Came to Bar Q
1914 · Movie
Modern Matrimony
1923 · Movie
Doughboys
1930 · Movie
Broncho Billy's Narrow Escape
1912 · Movie
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
1939 · Movie
Adventure's End
1937 · Movie
Waterfront Lady
1935 · Movie
Second Fiddle
1939 · Movie
Snakeville's New Waitress
1914 · Movie
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
1933 · Movie
Broncho Billy's Squareness
1913 · Movie
Alkali Ike's Pants
1912 · Movie
The Last Laugh
1913 · Movie
The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
1935 · Movie
Slim the Brave and Sophie the Fair
1915 · Movie
The Captain's Kid
1936 · Movie
The Virtuous Sin
1930 · Movie
Alkali Ike Stung!
1912 · Movie
Snakeville's New Doctor
1914 · Movie
Broncho Billy Reforms
1913 · Movie
The Fighting Marines
1935 · Movie
Western Frontier
1935 · Movie
Li'l Abner
1940 · Movie
Mississippi
1935 · Movie
Slippery Slim Gets Cured
1914 · Movie
The Cowboy and the Bandit
1935 · Movie
Ride on Vaquero
1941 · Movie
The Bad One
1930 · Movie
Shipmates Forever
1935 · Movie
Yankee Fakir
1947 · Movie
Thunder Over Texas
1934 · Movie
Ingomar of the Hills
1915 · Movie
The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
1938 · Movie
Broncho Billy's Leap
1914 · Movie
Western Gold
1937 · Movie
Broncho Billy Rewarded
1914 · Movie
Slippery Slim -- Diplomat
1914 · Movie
Snakeville and the Corset Demonstrator
1914 · Movie
A Story of Montana
1912 · Movie
Girl from God's Country
1940 · Movie
Captain Kidd, Jr.
1919 · Movie
Whispering Smith Speaks
1935 · Movie
The Snakeville Volunteer
1914 · Movie
Damaged Lives
1933 · Movie
White Bondage
1937 · Movie
Inside Information
1934 · Movie
The Bachelor's Burglar
1915 · Movie
A Medal for Benny
1945 · Movie
Alkali Ike's Auto
1911 · Movie
Face in the Sky
1933 · Movie
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
1919 · Movie
Blondie Brings Up Baby
1939 · Movie
Twisted Rails
1934 · Movie
The Good Fellows
1943 · Movie
Big Boy Rides Again
1935 · Movie
Song of the Saddle
1936 · Movie
Slippery Slim Gets Square
1914 · Movie
Reno
1923 · Movie
Versus Sledge Hammers
1915 · Movie
Water, Water, Everywhere
1920 · Movie
The Glass Alibi
1946 · Movie
Paradise Island
1930 · Movie
Chip of the Flying U
1939 · Movie
Rovin' Tumbleweeds
1939 · Movie
Scandal Sheet
1931 · Movie
Broncho Billy, a Friend in Need
1914 · Movie
Forward, March!
1930 · Movie
Yellow Dust
1936 · Movie
A Tailor-Made Man
1922 · Movie
Broncho Billy's Promise
1912 · Movie
At the Sign of the Jack'O Lantern
1922 · Movie
One a Minute
1921 · Movie
On the Great White Trail
1938 · Movie
A Petal on the Current
1919 · Movie
Small Town Boy
1937 · Movie
Broncho Billy's Pal
1912 · Movie
The Making of Broncho Billy
1913 · Movie
The Last of the Clintons
1935 · Movie
The Tomboy on Bar Z
1912 · Movie
O'Malley of the Mounted
1936 · Movie
Why Broncho Billy Left Bear County
1913 · Movie
Border Romance
1929 · Movie
A Night on the Road
1914 · Movie
Rhythm Round-Up
1945 · Movie
Ten Days
1925 · Movie
Down the Wyoming Trail
1939 · Movie
The Law Forbids
1924 · Movie
Broncho Billy's First Arrest
1913 · Movie
When Slippery Slim Went for the Eggs
1915 · Movie
Alkali Ike Plays the Devil
1912 · Movie
Broncho Billy and the Sisters
1915 · Movie
Two Gun Law
1937 · Movie
When Slippery Slim Met the Champion
1914 · Movie
Alkali Ike and the Hypnotist
1913 · Movie
Broncho Billy and the Sheriff's Office
1914 · Movie
What Price Beauty?
1928 · Movie
Step on It!
1922 · Movie
Broncho Billy's Adventure
1911 · Movie
A Westerner's Way
1910 · Movie
A Snakeville Courtship
1913 · Movie
The Drunkard
1935 · Movie
Broncho Billy and the Bad Man
1914 · Movie
Broncho Billy and the Mine Shark
1914 · Movie
The Corporation and the Ranch Girl
1911 · Movie
The Lodge in the Wilderness
1926 · Movie
The Heart of a Child
1920 · Movie
Broncho Billy for Sheriff
1912 · Movie
That Pair from Thespia
1913 · Movie
Broncho Billy-Guardian
1914 · Movie
Sophie's New Foreman
1913 · Movie
The Good-for-Nothing
1914 · Movie
Alkali Ike and the Wildman
1913 · Movie
Broncho Billy and the Sheriff's Kid
1913 · Movie
Broncho Billy and the Red Man
1914 · Movie
The Strike at the Little Jonny Mine
1911 · Movie
A Child of the West
1912 · Movie
Alkali Ike's Misfortunes
1913 · Movie
Full of Pep
1919 · Movie
Melody of Love
1928 · Movie
Snakeville's Peace-Maker
1914 · Movie
Across the Plains
1911 · Movie
Broncho Billy and the Schoolmistress
1912 · Movie
The Three Gamblers
1913 · Movie
Broncho Bill's Last Spree
1911 · Movie
Hearts and Saddles
1917 · Movie
