Victor Potel
Oyuncu · 1889 – 1947 · Lafayette, 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.
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Film7.0KomediRomantikGerry ve Tom Jeffers evlilik hayatını zor bulmaktadır. Tom bir mimardır ve geçinmeleri giderek zorlaşmaktadır. Yaşadıkları daireden atılacakları sırada Gerry zengin bir iş adamıyla tanışır. İş adamı Gerrye hayata yeniden başlaması için 700 dolar verir ama Tom bu hikayeye inanmaz ve çift kavga eder. Gerry evliliklerinin bittiğine karar verir ve hızlı bir şekilde boşanabilmek için Palm Beache gider. Tomun ise onu durdurmak için planları vardır.
Film7.5SuçDramNorman Krasna'nın Mob Rule romanından uyarlanan 1936 yapımı bu başyapıtın konusu şöyle; Joe Wilson and Katherine Grant birbirlerine aşıktır ancak Joe'nun evlenmeleri için yeterince parası yoktur. Bu yüzden Katherine para kazanabileceği başka bir kasabaya taşınır. Joe'nun bir yabancı olarak kasabaya gelmesiyle olaylar başlar. Bundan sonra yönetmen Fritz Lang bizlere ustalıkla, nazik ve uygar bir adamın nasıl olup da merhametsiz ve sert bir adama dönüşebileceğini gösteriyor.
Film7.4KomediRomantikJohn Sullivan (Joel McCrea) hafif eğlencelik filmlerin unutulmaz yönetmeni iken artık çizgi değiştirmeye karar vermiş ve yoksul insanların, ezilmiş kişilerin sorunlarını anlatmaya heveslenmiştir. Ancak yine de ilk denemesindeki sonuç kendisini tatmin etmez. Fakir ve aç insanların sorunlarını yeterince anlayamadığını düşünmektedir. Bunu nasıl halledeceğini düşünürken çözümü bulur: fakir insanları anlamak için onlardan biri olması gerekmektedir. Sullivan, tüm servetini bir süreliğine bırakır ve gerçek bir fakir gibi yaşamak için cebinde beş parası olmadan yollara düşer. Acaba elinde hiçbir şey olmadan yaşamayı becerebilecek midir?
Film7.3KomediRomantikAmazon'da bir yıllık yılan araştırmasından dönen, zengin ama mütevazı Charles Pike, bir teknede dolandırıcı Jean Harrington ile tanışır. Birbirlerine aşık olurlar ama bir yanlış anlama, onların kötü bir şekilde ayrılmalarına sebep olur. Jean, onu geri kazanmak için bir İngiliz kadınının kılığına girip ona sataşmaya başlar.
Film5.5RomantikWesternDuke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.
Flame of Barbary Coast
1945 · 24 votes
Film7.0KomediRomantikWorld War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country. While Betty gamely struggles with managing the crumbling house and holding off nosy neighbors and a recalcitrant pig, Bob makes plans for crops and livestock. The couple's bliss is shaken by a visit from a beautiful farm owner, who seems to want more from Bob than just managing her property.
The Egg and I
1947 · 50 votes
Film6.8KomediRomantikA small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
1944 · 127 votes
Film6.4KomediTwenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, 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. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension. Harold, who never touches the stuff, takes a stiff drink with his new pal... and another, and another. What happened Wednesday?
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
1947 · 33 votes
Film5.3KomediThe wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
She Couldn't Take It
1935 · 3 votes
Film7.1KomediSavaşHaving been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.
Hail the Conquering Hero
1944 · 79 votes
Film6.8FantastikKomediA young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
It Happened Tomorrow
1944 · 72 votes
Film7.3KomediRomantikFrank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to get the money back. Frank is murdered, but Junior gets away. He comes back 10 years later to settle the score as the Singing Cowboy. He finds that Hook is still doing his dirty deeds on the unsuspecting people. Along the way, Frank meets the lovely Jen, who came out in the same wagon train 10 years before.
Song of the Saddle
1936 · 3 votes
Film7.0KomediTold in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
The Great McGinty
1940 · 81 votes
Film6.8WesternA singing medicine-show cowboy and his magician partner catch a killer.
Moonlight on the Prairie
1935 · 4 votes
Film7.0KomediRomantikAn office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.
Christmas in July
1940 · 91 votes
Film5.9DramInventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.
Young Tom Edison
1940 · 11 votes
Film4.4SuçDramA rough criminal gets a second chance at life thanks to a kindly (and wealthy) lady saloon patron. But he hasn't gone straight yet, as he and a partner attempt to rob the home of a rich homeowner-- whose wife is asleep in the next room.
His Regeneration
1915 · 30 votes
Film7.0WesternDramO'Malley pretends to be an outlaw in order to join a gang terrorizing towns along the American border.
O'Malley of the Mounted
1936 · 1 votes
Film7.1KomediIn this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles – a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl – is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles' life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidentally becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.
Ruggles of Red Gap
1935 · 86 votes
Film5.3RomantikWesternA bandit disguises himself as an officer in an attempt to woo a saloon singer.
The Girl of the Golden West
1938 · 5 votes
Film7.0KomediSuçThe search is on for a bank robber's hidden stash in a house they all say is haunted.
Itching Palms
1923 · 1 votes
Film5.7MüzikWesternRancher Autry takes a job singing on the radio to aid farmers and ranchers whose lands were destroyed by raging floods. Blaming crooked politicians, he goes to Washington and tries to put through a food control bill and finds he has a lot to learn. In this classic release, Gene introduces his immortal theme song, "Back in the Saddle Again," which has gone on to become a piece of American History.
Rovin' Tumbleweeds
1939 · 3 votes
Film6.9KomediBaby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically combs the city in search of the boy, Baby Dumpling spents a nice, safe afternoon with poor little rich girl Melinda Mason, who with her new playmate's help arises from her sickbed to walk across the room for the first time in months.
Blondie Brings Up Baby
1939 · 8 votes
Film5.6DramOutcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they pretend that he and his family are cherished, eminent citizens.
A Medal for Benny
1945 · 5 votes