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name: "Victor Potel"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "12 October 1889"
died: "8 March 1947"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T21:19:15.240661+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Victor Potel

Actor. Born 12 October 1889 in Lafayette, Indiana, USA. Died 8 March 1947.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 12 October 1889, Lafayette, Indiana, USA
- **Died:** 8 March 1947
- **Also known as:** Vic Potel

## Biography

Victor Potel was an American character actor whose career spanned the silent era to the mid-1940s. Born in Lafayette, Indiana, on 12 October 1889, he made his first film in 1910 for Essanay in Chicago and appeared in dozens of shorts each year, including most of the Broncho Billy series and 80 films as the character Slippery Slim. He also featured in Universal's Snakeville series.

Potel's first sound film was *Melody of Love* (1928). In the sound era he played numerous small and uncredited comic roles, often due to his height and gawkiness. He became part of Preston Sturges's stock company of actors, appearing in nine of the director's films, including *Sullivan's Travels* (1941) as the Cameraman, *The Lady Eve* (1941), *The Palm Beach Story* (1942) and *The Miracle of Morgan's Creek* (1944). He also wrote and directed several shorts and contributed to a handful of features before his death in Hollywood on 8 March 1947.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, watch.plex.tv.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Sullivan's Travels* (1941), Fi1m 88, as Cameraman — [page](https://film.one/film/sullivans-travels.md)

## Also known for

- *Fury* (1936), Jorgeson (uncredited)
- *The Palm Beach Story* (1942), Mr. McKeewie
- *The Miracle of Morgan's Creek* (1944), Newspaper Editor
- *Christmas in July* (1940), Davenola Salesman
- *Ruggles of Red Gap* (1935), Curly - Cowboy
- *The Great McGinty* (1940), Cook (uncredited)
- *Hail the Conquering Hero* (1944), Progressive Bandleader (uncredited)
- *It Happened Tomorrow* (1944)

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