Walter Slezak
Acting • Born 1902-05-03 – Died 1983-04-21
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.
Filmography
97 credits
Emil and the Detectives
Movie • 1964
Baron
The Princess and the Pirate
Movie • 1944
La Roche
Treasure Island
Movie • 1972
Squire Trelawney
People Will Talk
Movie • 1951
Prof. Barker
Come September
Movie • 1961
Maurice Clavell
Riff-Raff
Movie • 1947
Eric Molinar
The Fallen Sparrow
Movie • 1943
Dr. Christian Skaas
Born to Kill
Movie • 1947
Matthew Arnett
Lifeboat
Movie • 1944
Willi
The Inspector General
Movie • 1949
Yakov
The Pirate
Movie • 1948
Don Pedro Vargas
Black Beauty
Movie • 1971
Hackenschmidt
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Movie • 1962
Stossel
Cornered
Movie • 1945
Melchior Incza
Bedtime for Bonzo
Movie • 1951
Professor Hans Neumann
Sinbad the Sailor
Movie • 1947
Melik
Step Lively
Movie • 1944
Joe Gribble
Once Upon a Honeymoon
Movie • 1942
Baron Franz Von Luber
This Land Is Mine
Movie • 1943
Major Erich von Keller
Call Me Madam
Movie • 1953
August Tantinnin
Mein Leopold
Movie • 1924
Michael
Movie • 1924
Michael
The Juggler of Notre Dame
Movie • 1970
The Innkeeper
The Spanish Main
Movie • 1945
Don Juan Alvarado
The Yellow Cab Man
Movie • 1950
Dr. Byron Dokstedder
Dr. Coppelius
Movie • 1968
Dr. Coppelius
The Steel Cage
Movie • 1954
Louis, the Prison Chef, segment "The Chef"
Till We Meet Again
Movie • 1944
Vitrey, The Mayor
White Witch Doctor
Movie • 1953
Huysman
The Miracle
Movie • 1959
Flaco
A Hundred-Odd Years from Now
Movie • 1969
Wonderful Life
Movie • 1964
Lloyd Davis
Ten Thousand Bedrooms
Movie • 1957
Papa Martelli
A Very Special Favor
Movie • 1965
Etienne
Twenty-Four Hours to Kill
Movie • 1965
Malouf
Congress of Love
Movie • 1966
Der 'Ewige Wiener'
Heidi
Movie • 1968
Father Richter
Spy Hunt
Movie • 1950
Doctor Stahl
The Caper of the Golden Bulls
Movie • 1967
Antonio Gonzales
Spione im Savoy-Hotel
Movie • 1932
Kurt
Confidentially Connie
Movie • 1953
Emil Spangenberg
Addio giovinezza!
Movie • 1927
Sodom and Gomorrah
Movie • 1922
Eduard Harber - Student am Cambridge-Lyzeum / Ein Goldschmied von Galiläa
The Mysterious House of Dr. C.
Movie • 1976
Dr. Coppelius
Salome, Where She Danced
Movie • 1945
Dimitrioff
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
Movie • 1950
Sgt. Axmann
Grüß mir das blonde Kind am Rhein
Movie • 1926
Pinocchio
Movie • 1957
Gepetto
Aus des Rheinlands Schicksalstagen
Movie • 1926
Walter Thiermann
O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
Movie • 1925
Junges Blut
Movie • 1926
Oberprimaner
The Long Intermission
Movie • 1927
Ottokar
Almenrausch und Edelweiss
Movie • 1928
Mentel
Die Lorelei
Movie • 1927
The Right to Live
Movie • 1927
Ehegeheimnisse
Movie • 1927
Ledige Mütter
Movie • 1928
A Cry of Angels
Movie • 1963
Liebe geht seltsame Wege
Movie • 1927
Eros in Ketten
Movie • 1929
Osudné noci
Movie • 1929
The Legend of Robin Hood
Movie • 1968
Friar Tuck
Cain's Hundred
TV • 1961
Arnie Grote
Batman
TV • 1966
The Clock King
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self
Omnibus
TV • 1952
Studio One
TV • 1948
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Mr. Reallybig
Outlaws
TV • 1960
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Lazio Tzgorni
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
TV • 1968
Self (uncredited)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV • 1955
Emil Markheim
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
TV • 1956
Self
Suspense
TV • 1949
Dr. Potterton / Richard Morley
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Krisons Ringo
The Name's the Same
TV • 1951
Filmgeschichte(n) aus Österreich
TV • 1970
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Dr. Max Jurgens
Telephone Time
TV • 1956
The Chevy Mystery Show
TV • 1960
Host
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Emil Kronsteidt
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Oskar Pauker
Assignment: Vienna
TV • 1972
Tandler
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
Studio One
TV • 1948
Lev Simon
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
George Frederic Handel
The Big Party
TV • 1959
Self
Suspense
TV • 1949
Frank Cadwallader
Suspense
TV • 1949
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Marcel Locksmith
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TV • 1957
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self - Co-Host
MGM Parade
TV • 1955
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