Walter Slezak

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1902-05-03 (81 years old)

Deathday

1983-04-21

Place of Birth

Vienna, Austria

Walter Slezak

Biography

Walter Slezak (3 May 1902 – 21 April 1983) was a portly Austrian character actor who appeared in numerous Hollywood films. Slezak often portrayed villains or thugs, most notably the German U-boat captain in Alfred Hitchcock's 1944 Lifeboat, but occasionally he got to play lighter roles, as in 1962's The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm. He also played a cheerfully corrupt and philosophical private detective in the 1947 film noir Born to Kill and appeared as Squire Trelawney in the 1972 version of Treasure Island.

Acting

1972

Treasure Island

as Squire Trelawney

1951

People Will Talk

as Prof. Barker

1961

Come September

as Maurice Clavell

1947

Riff-Raff

as Eric Molinar

1943

The Fallen Sparrow

as Dr. Christian Skaas

1947

Born to Kill

as Matthew Arnett

1944

Lifeboat

as Willi

1948

The Pirate

as Don Pedro Vargas

1971

Black Beauty

as Hackenschmidt

1945

Cornered

as Melchior Incza

1951

Bedtime for Bonzo

as Professor Hans Neumann

1947

1944

Step Lively

as Joe Gribble

1942

Once Upon a Honeymoon

as Baron Franz Von Luber

1943

This Land Is Mine

as Major Erich von Keller

1953

Call Me Madam

as August Tantinnin

1924

Michael

as Michael

1970

1945

The Spanish Main

as Don Juan Alvarado

1950

The Yellow Cab Man

as Dr. Byron Dokstedder

1968

Dr. Coppelius

as Dr. Coppelius

1954

The Steel Cage

as Louis, the Prison Chef, segment "The Chef"

1944

Till We Meet Again

as Vitrey, The Mayor

1953

1959

The Miracle

as Flaco

1964

Wonderful Life

as Lloyd Davis

1957

Ten Thousand Bedrooms

as Papa Martelli

1965

1966

Congress of Love

as Der 'Ewige Wiener'

1968

Heidi

as Father Richter

1950

Spy Hunt

as Doctor Stahl

1967

1953

Confidentially Connie

as Emil Spangenberg

1922

Sodom and Gomorrah

as Eduard Harber - Student am Cambridge-Lyzeum / Ein Goldschmied von Galiläa

1976

1945

1957

Pinocchio

as Gepetto

1926

1926

Junges Blut

as Oberprimaner

1927

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