Walter Slezak
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 engineer 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.
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- Born:
- May 3, 1902 In Vienna, Austria
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 79
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Sodom and Gomorrah 1922-10-13
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Mysterious House of Dr. C. 1976-01-09
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Mysterious House of Dr. C. | Dr. Coppelius | 1976-01-09 |
| Movie | Treasure Island | Squire Trelawney | 1972-10-01 |
| Movie | Black Beauty | Hackenschmidt | 1971-04-01 |
| Movie | The Juggler of Notre Dame | The Innkeeper | 1970-02-11 |
| Movie | A Hundred-Odd Years from Now | 1969-01-01 | |
| Movie | Heidi | Father Richter | 1968-11-17 |
| Movie | Dr. Coppelius | Dr. Coppelius | 1968-12-25 |
| Movie | The Caper of the Golden Bulls | Antonio Gonzales | 1967-05-24 |
| Series | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | Unknown | 1967-09-09 |
| Series | Batman | Unknown | 1966-01-12 |
| Movie | Congress of Love | Der 'Ewige Wiener' | 1966-03-18 |
| Movie | Twenty-Four Hours to Kill | Malouf | 1965-03-08 |
| Movie | A Very Special Favor | Etienne | 1965-08-02 |
| Movie | Wonderful Life | Lloyd Davis | 1964-06-03 |
| Movie | Emil and the Detectives | Baron | 1964-12-18 |
| Movie | A Cry of Angels | 1963-12-15 | |
| Movie | The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | Stossel | 1962-08-07 |
| Movie | Come September | Maurice Clavell | 1961-01-01 |
| Series | Cain's Hundred | Unknown | 1961-09-19 |
| Series | Dr. Kildare | Unknown | 1961-09-27 |
| Series | The Chevy Mystery Show | Host | 1960-05-29 |
| Series | Outlaws | Unknown | 1960-09-26 |
| Series | Rawhide | Unknown | 1959-01-09 |
| Movie | The Miracle | Flaco | 1959-11-12 |
| Series | The Big Party | 1959-10-08 | |
| Movie | Ten Thousand Bedrooms | Papa Martelli | 1957-04-03 |
| Movie | Pinocchio | Gepetto | 1957-10-13 |
| Series | Telephone Time | Unknown | 1956-04-08 |
| Series | The Dinah Shore Chevy Show | Unknown | 1956-10-05 |
| Series | The 20th Century Fox Hour | Unknown | 1955-10-05 |
| Movie | The Steel Cage | Louis, the Prison Chef, segment "The Chef" | 1954-12-01 |
| Movie | Confidentially Connie | Emil Spangenberg | 1953-03-12 |
| Movie | Call Me Madam | August Tantinnin | 1953-03-25 |
| Movie | White Witch Doctor | Huysman | 1953-07-01 |
| Series | Letter to Loretta | Unknown | 1953-09-20 |
| Series | Omnibus | Unknown | 1952-11-09 |
| Series | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | Unknown | 1951-10-05 |
| Movie | Bedtime for Bonzo | Professor Hans Neumann | 1951-04-05 |
| Movie | People Will Talk | Prof. Barker | 1951-08-29 |
| Series | The Name's the Same | 1951-12-05 | |
| Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |
| Series | Robert Montgomery Presents | Unknown | 1950-01-30 |
| Movie | The Yellow Cab Man | Dr. Byron Dokstedder | 1950-03-25 |
| Movie | Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion | Sgt. Axmann | 1950-08-05 |
| Movie | Spy Hunt | Doctor Stahl | 1950-06-08 |
| Series | Suspense | Unknown | 1949-01-06 |
| Movie | The Inspector General | Yakov | 1949-12-31 |
| Movie | The Pirate | Don Pedro Vargas | 1948-06-11 |
| Series | Studio One | Unknown | 1948-11-07 |
| Movie | Riff-Raff | Eric Molinar | 1947-06-28 |
| Movie | Sinbad the Sailor | Melik | 1947-01-13 |
| Movie | Born to Kill | Matthew Arnett | 1947-04-30 |
| Movie | Salome, Where She Danced | Dimitrioff | 1945-04-17 |
| Movie | Cornered | Melchior Incza | 1945-11-23 |
| Movie | The Spanish Main | Don Juan Alvarado | 1945-10-01 |
| Movie | Step Lively | Joe Gribble | 1944-07-26 |
| Movie | Lifeboat | Willi | 1944-01-28 |
| Movie | The Princess and the Pirate | La Roche | 1944-11-17 |
| Movie | Till We Meet Again | Vitrey, The Mayor | 1944-08-30 |
| Movie | This Land Is Mine | Major Erich von Keller | 1943-05-07 |
| Movie | The Fallen Sparrow | Dr. Christian Skaas | 1943-08-19 |
| Movie | Once Upon a Honeymoon | Baron Franz Von Luber | 1942-11-27 |
| Movie | Spione im Savoy-Hotel | Kurt | 1932-11-04 |
| Movie | Osudné noci | 1929-05-03 | |
| Movie | Eros in Ketten | 1929-09-19 | |
| Movie | Almenrausch und Edelweiss | Mentel | 1928-03-28 |
| Movie | Ledige Mütter | 1928-02-14 | |
| Movie | Addio giovinezza! | 1927-01-30 | |
| Movie | The Right to Live | 1927-03-23 | |
| Movie | Ehegeheimnisse | 1927-01-18 | |
| Movie | The Long Intermission | Ottokar | 1927-11-09 |
| Movie | Die Lorelei | 1927-04-26 | |
| Movie | Liebe geht seltsame Wege | 1927-08-10 | |
| Movie | Grüß mir das blonde Kind am Rhein | 1926-01-21 | |
| Movie | Aus des Rheinlands Schicksalstagen | Walter Thiermann | 1926-03-01 |
| Movie | Junges Blut | Oberprimaner | 1926-03-23 |
| Movie | O alte Burschenherrlichkeit | 1925-09-28 | |
| Movie | Michael | Michael | 1924-09-26 |
| Movie | Sodom and Gomorrah | Eduard Harber - Student am Cambridge-Lyzeum / Ein Goldschmied von Galiläa | 1922-10-13 |