Walter Slezak
Born: 1902-05-03
• 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.
Filmography
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The Mysterious House of Dr. C.
Treasure Island
Black Beauty
The Juggler of Notre Dame
A Hundred-Odd Years from Now
Dr. Coppelius
Heidi
The Legend of Robin Hood
The Caper of the Golden Bulls
Congress of Love
A Very Special Favor
Twenty-Four Hours to Kill
Emil and the Detectives
Wonderful Life
A Cry of Angels
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Come September
The Miracle
Pinocchio
Ten Thousand Bedrooms
The Steel Cage
White Witch Doctor
Call Me Madam
Confidentially Connie
People Will Talk
Bedtime for Bonzo
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
Spy Hunt
The Yellow Cab Man
The Inspector General
The Pirate
Riff-Raff
Born to Kill
Sinbad the Sailor
Cornered
The Spanish Main
Salome, Where She Danced
The Princess and the Pirate
Till We Meet Again
Step Lively
Lifeboat
The Fallen Sparrow
This Land Is Mine
Once Upon a Honeymoon
Spione im Savoy-Hotel
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Eros in Ketten
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Osudné noci
Almenrausch und Edelweiss
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Ledige Mütter
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The Long Intermission
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Liebe geht seltsame Wege
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Die Lorelei
The Right to Live
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Addio giovinezza!
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Ehegeheimnisse
Junges Blut
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Aus des Rheinlands Schicksalstagen
Grüß mir das blonde Kind am Rhein
O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
Mein Leopold
Michael
Sodom and Gomorrah