Walter Slezak
Known for: Acting
Born: May 3, 1902
Died: April 21, 1983
Place of birth: Vienna, Austria
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.
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Filmography
62 movies · 35 TV shows, newest first
6.3
The Love Boat
1977NR
The Mysterious House of Dr. C.
1976
5.9
Treasure Island
1972
9.0
Assignment: Vienna
1972
6.0
Black Beauty
1971NR
Filmgeschichte(n) aus Österreich
1970
7.5
The Juggler of Notre Dame
1970
NR
A Hundred-Odd Years from Now
1969
7.5
Dr. Coppelius
1968
6.3
Heidi
1968
NR
The Legend of Robin Hood
1968
6.8
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
6.3
The Caper of the Golden Bulls
1967
4.0
Congress of Love
1966
7.3
Batman
1966
5.8
A Very Special Favor
1965
6.1
Twenty-Four Hours to Kill
1965
6.2
Emil and the Detectives
1964
4.9
Wonderful Life
1964
NR
A Cry of Angels
1963
6.8
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
5.9
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
1962
5.8
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
5.7
Dr. Kildare
1961
5.2
Cain's Hundred
1961
6.8
Come September
1961
6.7
Outlaws
19606.8
The Chevy Mystery Show
19608.0
The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
1960
6.7
The Miracle
1959NR
The Big Party
1959
6.8
Startime
1959
7.2
Rawhide
1959
7.2
77 Sunset Strip
1958
8.0
Pinocchio
1957
7.0
Alcoa Theatre
19577.5
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
5.6
Ten Thousand Bedrooms
1957
6.4
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
6.5
Telephone Time
1956
NR
Tony Awards
1956
6.0
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
7.5
MGM Parade
1955
7.0
The Steel Cage
1954
6.6
Letter to Loretta
1953
6.5
White Witch Doctor
1953
6.2
Call Me Madam
1953
5.8
Confidentially Connie
1953
7.0
Omnibus
1952
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951NR
The Name's the Same
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
7.1
People Will Talk
1951
6.0
Bedtime for Bonzo
19517.7
Danger
1950
6.1
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
1950
6.3
Spy Hunt
1950
6.9
The Yellow Cab Man
1950
7.0
What's My Line?
1950
6.0
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
6.6
The Inspector General
1949
5.1
Suspense
1949
5.4
Studio One
1948
6.8
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
6.5
The Pirate
1948
6.2
Riff-Raff
1947
6.7
Born to Kill
1947
6.0
Sinbad the Sailor
1947
6.2
Cornered
1945
6.4
The Spanish Main
1945
4.1
Salome, Where She Danced
1945
6.9
The Princess and the Pirate
1944
7.0
Till We Meet Again
1944
6.7
Step Lively
1944
7.4
Lifeboat
1944
6.0
The Fallen Sparrow
1943
7.1
This Land Is Mine
1943
6.3
Once Upon a Honeymoon
1942
7.5
Spione im Savoy-Hotel
1932NR
Eros in Ketten
1929NR
Osudné noci
1929
9.0
Almenrausch und Edelweiss
19287.0
Ledige Mütter
192810.0
The Long Intermission
19278.0
The Ways of Love Are Strange
19279.0
Die Lorelei
1927
NR
The Right to Live
1927
8.0
Addio giovinezza!
192710.0
Ehegeheimnisse
1926
10.0
Junges Blut
19266.0
Aus des Rheinlands Schicksalstagen
1926
6.0
Grüß mir das blonde Kind am Rhein
1926
8.0
O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
1925
10.0
Mein Leopold
1924
6.3
Michael
1924
6.1
Sodom and Gomorrah
1922