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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.
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Nationality USA
Birth 12 october 1889 at Lafayette (USA)
Death 8 march 1947 (at 57 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Birth 12 october 1889 at Lafayette (USA)
Death 8 march 1947 (at 57 years) at Hollywood (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.
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The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)
, 1h29Directed by Lewis Milestone, Preston Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Circus films
Actors Harold Lloyd, Jimmy Conlin, Rudy Vallée, Pat O'Brien, Raymond Walburn, Edgar Kennedy
Roles Prof. Potelle
Rating63%
In 1945, twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team (as told in The Freshman), mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock (Harold Lloyd), who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Waggleberry (Raymond Walburn), with nothing but a tiny pension of $1,000. He bids farewell to the girl at the desk down the aisle, Miss Otis (Frances Ramsden), whom he had hoped to marry – just as he had hoped to marry five of her older sisters before that – and wanders aimlessly through the streets, his life's savings in hand.
The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947)
, 1h2Directed by Felix E. Feist
Genres Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Lawrence Tierney, Betty Lawford, Nanette June "Nan" Leslie, Andrew Tombes, Harry Shannon, William Gould
Rating67%
Steve Morgan (Tierney) is a charming sociopath who has just robbed and killed a cinema cashier. Seeking to escape, he hitches a ride to Los Angeles with unsuspecting Jimmy 'Fergie' Ferguson (North). Part way the pair stops at a gas station and picks up two women. Encountering a roadblock, Morgan persuades the party to spend the night at an unoccupied beach house. The police close in as one by one Morgan begins killing the threesome.
Ramrod (1947)
, 1h35Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Don DeFore, Donald Crisp, Preston Foster, Arleen Whelan
Roles Burch Nellice
Rating66%
Connie Dickason (Veronica Lake) is the strong-willed daughter of a ranch owner (Charles Ruggles), who is under the control of powerful local cattleman Frank Ivey (Preston Foster), a man her father once wanted Connie to marry. Connie instead takes up with a sheep rancher who is run out of town by Ivey. She inherits the man's land.
The Egg and I (1947)
, 1h48Directed by Charles Lamont, Chester Erskine
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main, Meg Randall, Louise Allbritton, Samuel S. Hinds
Roles Crowbar
Rating68%
It tells the story of a young married couple who become chicken farmers. Betty follows her husband Bob to the countryside where his dream is to be a successful chicken farmer. The problem is, their home is old and needs to be repaired and the baby chicks need constant care. When a rich single woman with a new house and new farm equipment flirts with Bob, Betty questions their decision to move to the farm in the first place. In the end, she finds out that Bob was trying to buy the new house for Betty as a surprise.
Heldorado (1946)
Directed by William Witney
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Brad Dexter, Paul Harvey, George "Gabby" Hayes, Victor Potel
Rating59%
Roy Rogers is a Captain in the Nevada Rangers who plans to take some well earned leave to go to Helldorado celebrations. His leave is interrupted when the Sheriff of Clark County, Nevada requests his help to investigate money laundering being done by an organized crime syndicate. The Syndicate uses impoverished local playboy Alec Baxter to launder thousand dollar bills at the gaming tables of the casinos of the state.
The Glass Alibi (1946)
, 1h8Directed by W. Lee Wilder
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Paul Kelly, Douglas Fowley, Anne Gwynne, Maris Wrixon, Selmer Jackson, Cy Kendall
Roles Gas Attendant (as Vic Potel)
Rating60%
A reporter marries a dying girl for her money, but she recovers from her illness so he plots her murder.
Flame of Barbary Coast (1945)
, 1h31Directed by William Frawley, Joseph Schildkraut, John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Kane, Borden Chase
Origin USA
Genres Action, Romance, Western
Actors John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Schildkraut, William Frawley, Virginia Grey, Russell Hicks
Roles Train Fireman
Rating61%
Naive Montana cowboy Duke Fergus (John Wayne) arrives in San Francisco and visits the notorious Barbary Coast. He becomes smitten with the lovely star attraction of the fanciest gambling hall, "Flaxen" Tarry (Ann Dvorak), the "Flame of the Barbary Coast". He gets talked into gambling against the owner (and Flaxen's lover), card shark Tito Morell (Joseph Schildkraut). Predictably, Fergus gets cheated and loses all his money.
A Medal for Benny (1945)
, 1h17Directed by Irving Pichel, Oscar Rudolph
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors J. Carrol Naish, Arturo de Córdova, Dorothy Lamour, Frank McHugh, Mikhail Rasumny, Charles Dingle
Roles Pantera Pepster Club Member (uncredited)
Rating60%
The film examines small town hypocrisy.
Strange Illusion (1945)
, 1h27Directed by Edgar George Ulmer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Jimmy Lydon, Warren William, Sally Eilers, Regis Toomey, Charles Arnt, George Reed
Roles Mac - Game Warden
Rating61%
An adolescent believes that his widowed mother's suitor may have murdered his father.
It Happened Tomorrow (1944)
, 1h25Directed by René Clair
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Time travel films
Actors Dick Powell, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie, Edgar Kennedy, Edward Brophy, Sig Ruman
Rating69%
In the 1890s, Lawrence Stevens (Dick Powell) is an obituary writer unhappy in his job who is given, by a ghostly deceased newspaper man named Pop Benson (John Philliber), a newspaper that has tomorrow's news. He uses the paper to write stories and get the scoop on other reporters, but this also brings him under the suspicion of Police Inspector Mulrooney (Edgar Kennedy), who wants to know how Stevens always seems to know what's going to happen and where, mainly a robbery at a theater's box office during a performance. Stevens and his new girlfriend Sylvia (Linda Darnell) – half of a clairvoyant act with her uncle Oscar Smith (Jack Oakie) – have a number of adventures, until her uncle mistakenly thinks that Stevens has consorted with his niece in her boarding house room. The uncle attempts to intimidate Stevens into marrying her, not knowing that Stevens has come to him to ask for her hand.
, 1h39Directed by Preston Sturges
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, William Demarest, Porter Hall, Emory Parnell
Roles Newspaper Editor
Rating75%
Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton) is a small-town girl with a soft spot for soldiers. She wakes up one morning after a wild farewell party for a group of them to find that while drunk the night before, she married a soldier whose name she can't remember, except that "it had a z in it. Like Ratzkiwatzki [...] or was it Zitzkiwitzki?" She believes they both used fake names and she doesn't know how to get in touch with him or even what he looks like.
The Great Moment (1944)
Directed by Preston Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Joel McCrea, Betty Field, Harry Carey, William Demarest, Louis Jean Heydt, Julius Tannen
Roles First Dental Patient
Rating61%
The titles and credits open with a scene (in 1846) of a triumphant street procession and a jubilant crowd hailing William Morton (Joel McCrea) with signs such as "Pain is no more," followed by a long, written prologue pointing out, in part, that "before ether there was nothing." Next, an old Eben Frost (William Demarest) is seen heading through the snow to the farmhouse of Morton's aging widow Lizzie (Betty Field). On the way he stops at a pawn shop and redeems a medal once awarded to Morton inscribed: "To the benefactor of mankind."
Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
, 1h41Directed by Preston Sturges
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy
Actors Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, William Demarest, Raymond Walburn, Franklin Pangborn, Bess Flowers
Rating75%
Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith (Eddie Bracken) is a small town boy whose father, "Hinky Dinky" Truesmith, was a Marine who died a hero in World War I. Woodrow has been discharged from the Marine Corps after only a month owing to his chronic hay fever. Rather than disappoint his mother (Georgia Caine), he pretends to be fighting overseas in World War II while secretly working in a San Diego shipyard.
The Good Fellows (1943)
, 1h10Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Cecil Kellaway, Helen Walker, Mabel Paige, James Brown, Kathleen Lockhart, James Brown
Roles Branders (uncredited)
Rating70%
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
, 1h28Directed by Hal Walker, Preston Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films, Films about marriage
Actors Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallée, William Demarest, Sig Arno
Roles Mr. McKeewie
Rating74%
Tom and Gerry Jeffers (Joel McCrea and Claudette Colbert) are a married couple in New York City who are down on their luck financially, which is pushing the marriage to an end. But there is another, deeper problem with their relationship, one that is hinted at in the prologue of the movie as the opening credits roll and then explained near the movie's end.