Victor Potel
Known for
Careers this long are unusual: Victor Potel is an American actor who has kept working through several turns of the industry. Cameraman in 'Sullivan's Travels' is the role that outgrew the rest. Elsewhere on the filmography sits 'The Palm Beach Story'. More of the credits fall under comedy than under anything else. 174 appearances between the two screens is the plain arithmetic of it.
Victor Potel
174 Movies
Careers this long are unusual: Victor Potel is an American actor who has kept working through several turns of the industry. Cameraman in 'Sullivan's Travels' is the role that outgrew the rest. Elsewhere on the filmography sits 'The Palm Beach Story'. More of the credits fall under comedy than under anything else. 174 appearances between the two screens is the plain arithmetic of it.
Movies
Plays Cameraman
Sullivan's Travels
1941
Plays Pawn Shop Clerk
His Regeneration
1915
Plays Crowbar
The Egg and I
1947
Plays Mr. McKeewie
The Palm Beach Story
1942
Plays Train Fireman
Flame of Barbary Coast
1945
Plays Mr. Tompkins
Young Tom Edison
1940
Plays Davenola Salesman
Christmas in July
1940
Plays Newspaper Editor
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
1944
Plays Smith, a Sailor
Ten Cents a Dance
1931
Plays Deputy Tex Hatch
Frontier Days
1934
Plays 'Buck Tooth'
Three Godfathers
1936
Plays Farmer
She Couldn't Take It
1935
Plays First Dental Patient
The Great Moment
1944
Plays Lem - Stagecoach Driver
The Girl of the Golden West
1938
Plays Prof. Potelle
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
1947
Plays Steve - Crane Operator
Second Fiddle
1939
Plays Coach Driver
Stand Up and Fight
1939
Plays Turpentine
God's Country and the Woman
1937
Plays Curly - Cowboy
Ruggles of Red Gap
1935
Plays Andy
The Squaw Man
1931
Plays Kinso
The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
1935
Plays Postman
Three Faces West
1940
Plays Svendenburg
Doughboys
1930
Plays Fantastic Brown
Li'l Abner
1940
Plays Slim
Hollywood Cavalcade
1939
Plays Suspect
The Housekeeper's Daughter
1939
Plays Sailor
The Bad One
1930
Plays Sentry
The Virtuous Sin
1930
Plays Mac
Strange Illusion
1945
Plays Tall Saloon Cowboy
Moonlight on the Prairie
1935
Plays Undetermined Role
Damaged Lives
1933
Plays Little Casino
Song of the Saddle
1936
Plays Luke Stacey
White Bondage
1937
Plays Nebrasky
The Virginian
1929
Plays Jugger - the Bartender
Yellow Dust
1936
Plays Peterson
King of the Wild
1931
Plays Gas Attendant (as Vic Potel)
The Glass Alibi
1946
Plays Swede
Paradise Island
1930
Plays Ranch Hand
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
1939
Plays The General
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
1933
Writer
Plays Rice - Thin Detective
Inside Information
1934
Plays Lem
The Lady from Cheyenne
1941
Plays Slippery Slim
Snakeville's Rising Sons
1914
Plays The Count
Versus Sledge Hammers
1915
Plays Alex
Waterfront Lady
1935
Plays Deputy Jake Hutchinson
The Captain's Kid
1936
Plays Man in Store
Rovin' Tumbleweeds
1939
Plays Ole
Ride on Vaquero
1941
Plays Slippery Slim
Snakeville's Blind Pig
1914
Plays Bartender
What Came to Bar Q
1914
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The Egg and I
Full Filmography
The Egg and I
Crowbar
1947
Film
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Prof. Potelle
1947
Film
Yankee Fakir
Contest Chairman
1947
Film
The Glass Alibi
Gas Attendant (as Vic Potel)
1946
Film
Rhythm Round-Up
Slim Jensen
1945
Film
Flame of Barbary Coast
Train Fireman
1945
Film
A Medal for Benny
Pantera Pepster Club Member (uncredited)
1945
Film
Strange Illusion
Mac
1945
Film
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Newspaper Editor
1944
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Victor Potel still alive?
Victor Potel passed away on March 8, 1947 at age 57.
What are the most famous roles of Victor Potel?
Victor Potel is best known for roles in Sullivan's Travels, The Lady Eve, Fury.
How many movies has Victor Potel been in?
Over a 37-year career (since 1910), Victor Potel has appeared in 174 movies and 0 TV shows.
What was Victor Potel's first movie?
The career of Victor Potel began with A Dog on Business (1910).
What is Victor Potel's most recent movie or series?
Victor Potel's most recent release is The Egg and I, which premiered on May 1, 1947.
Victor Potel
1889-10-12 · Lafayette, Indiana, USA
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.