Walter Slezak
Department: Acting
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.
Known For
Emil and the Detectives
1964
The Princess and the Pirate
1944
Treasure Island
1972
People Will Talk
1951
Come September
1961
Riff-Raff
1947
The Fallen Sparrow
1943
Born to Kill
1947
Lifeboat
1944
The Inspector General
1949
The Pirate
1948
Black Beauty
1971
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
1962
Cornered
1945
Bedtime for Bonzo
1951
Sinbad the Sailor
1947
Step Lively
1944
Once Upon a Honeymoon
1942
This Land Is Mine
1943
Call Me Madam
1953
Mein Leopold
1924
Michael
1924
The Juggler of Notre Dame
1970
The Spanish Main
1945
The Yellow Cab Man
1950
Dr. Coppelius
1968
The Steel Cage
1954
Till We Meet Again
1944
White Witch Doctor
1953
The Miracle
1959
A Hundred-Odd Years from Now
1969
Wonderful Life
1964
Ten Thousand Bedrooms
1957
A Very Special Favor
1965
Twenty-Four Hours to Kill
1965
Congress of Love
1966
Heidi
1968
Spy Hunt
1950
The Caper of the Golden Bulls
1967
Spione im Savoy-Hotel
1932
Confidentially Connie
1953
Addio giovinezza!
1927
Sodom and Gomorrah
1922
The Mysterious House of Dr. C.
1976
Salome, Where She Danced
1945
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
1950
Grüß mir das blonde Kind am Rhein
1926
Pinocchio
1957
Aus des Rheinlands Schicksalstagen
1926
O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
1925
Junges Blut
1926
The Long Intermission
1927
Almenrausch und Edelweiss
1928
Die Lorelei
1927
Ehegeheimnisse
1926
The Right to Live
1927
Ledige Mütter
1928
A Cry of Angels
1963
Liebe geht seltsame Wege
1927
Eros in Ketten
1929
Osudné noci
1929
The Legend of Robin Hood
1968
Cain's Hundred
1961
Batman
1966
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Omnibus
1952
Studio One
1948
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Outlaws
1960
Rawhide
1959
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
Suspense
1949
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
The Name's the Same
1951
Filmgeschichte(n) aus Österreich
1970
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Dr. Kildare
1961
Telephone Time
1956
The Chevy Mystery Show
1960
Letter to Loretta
1953
77 Sunset Strip
1958
Assignment: Vienna
1972
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
Studio One
1948
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
The Big Party
1959
Suspense
1949
Suspense
1949
The Love Boat
1977
What's My Line?
1950
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
MGM Parade
1955
Tony Awards
1956