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.
Walter Slezak Biography / Wiki
| Name | Walter Slezak |
| Also Know | Уолтер Слезак |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Vienna, Austria |
| Date of Birth | 1902-05-03 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 80 |
| Deathday | 1983-04-21 |
Walter Slezak Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Emil and the Detectives | Baron | 1964-12-18 | When Emil travels by bus to Berlin to visit his grandmother and his cousin, his money is stolen by a crook who specializes in digging tunnels. Emil mu… |
| Michael | Michael | 1924-09-26 | A famed artist fights his passion for a male model, until the young man falls for a woman…. |
| Dr. Coppelius | Dr. Coppelius | 1968-12-25 | Film based on the ballet ‘Coppelia.’ This version is completely silent, not containing the songs/narration, or animation of the later reworking, Myste… |
| Grüß mir das blonde Kind am Rhein | 1926-01-21 | … | |
| Mein Leopold | 1924-09-30 | … | |
| The Inspector General | Yakov | 1949-12-31 | An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town’s corrupt officials mist… |
| Black Beauty | Hackenschmidt | 1971-01-01 | Anna Sewell’s classic 1877 novel beautifully comes to life in this family drama set in England. Told from the point of view of Black Beauty himself, t… |
| Cornered | Melchior Incza | 1945-11-23 | A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife…. |
| Wonderful Life | Lloyd Davis | 1964-06-03 | Cliff Richard and The Shadows are hired to star in a movie shot amid the lush tropical scenery of the Canary Islands. A sunny seaside spectacular, fil… |
| Pinocchio | Gepetto | 1957-10-13 | Pinocchio is a 1957 TV musical broadcast shown live on NBC, directed and choreographed by Hanya Holm. This version features songs by Alec Wilder…. |
| Junges Blut | Oberprimaner | 1926-03-23 | … |
| Almenrausch und Edelweiss | Mentel | 1928-03-28 | … |
| Liebe geht seltsame Wege | 1927-08-10 | … | |
| Treasure Island | Squire Trelawney | 1972-10-01 | Young Jim Hawkins finds himself serving with pirate captain Long John Silver in search of a buccaneer’s treasure, in this short adaptation of Robert L… |
| Riff-Raff | Eric Molinar | 1947-06-28 | A private detective foils the plans of villains attempting to take over Panamanian oilfields when he hides a valuable map in plain sight…. |
| The Fallen Sparrow | Dr. Christian Skaas | 1943-08-19 | Imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War, John “Kit” McKittrick is released when a New York City policeman pulls some strings. Upon returning to Americ… |
| Born to Kill | Matthew Arnett | 1947-04-30 | Helen Brent has just received a Reno divorce. That night, she discovers her neighbor Laury Palmer and a gentleman caller murdered in Palmer’s home. Th… |
| Lifeboat | Willy | 1944-01-28 | During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship they were traveling on is destroyed by a German U-bo… |
| The Pirate | Don Pedro Vargas | 1948-06-11 | A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and … |
| Bedtime for Bonzo | Professor Hans Neumann | 1951-04-05 | College prof Peter Boyd tries to salvage his professional and personal reputation by using a lab chimp to prove that environment trumps heredity in be… |
| Sinbad the Sailor | Melik | 1947-01-13 | Daredevil sailor Sinbad embarks on a voyage across the Seven Seas to find the lost riches of Alexander the Great. His first stop is the port of Basra,… |
| Once Upon a Honeymoon | Baron Franz Von Luber | 1942-11-27 | A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official…. |
| The Spanish Main | Don Juan Alvarado | 1945-10-01 | Laurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the Carolinas, when the ship is wrecked on the coast of Cartag… |
| The Yellow Cab Man | Dr. Byron Dokstedder | 1950-03-25 | Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day that… |
| The Steel Cage | Louis, the Prison Chef, segment “The Chef” | 1954-12-01 | Drama set in San Quentin prison…. |
| Till We Meet Again | Vitrey, The Mayor | 1944-08-30 | An American pilot is shot down over Nazi-occupied France and is taken to a convent by the Resistance. The young novice nun Clothilde is interested in … |
| White Witch Doctor | Huysman | 1953-07-01 | Ellen Burton arrives in Africa to join Dr. Mary as her nurse, bringing modern medicine to the native peoples. Lonni Douglas, an animal wrangler and fo… |
| The Miracle | Flaco | 1959-11-12 | A novice leaves a Spanish convent to follow a 19th-century British soldier she loves…. |
| The Mysterious House of Dr. C. | Dr. Coppelius | 1976-01-09 | The Mysterious House of Dr. C. (1976) is a rarely seen, reworked version of the 1966 Dr. Coppelius, a dance film based on the classic 19th-century Leo… |
| Aus des Rheinlands Schicksalstagen | Walter Thiermann | 1926-03-01 | … |
| The Long Intermission | Ottokar | 1927-11-09 | … |
| Eros in Ketten | 1929-09-19 | … | |
| A Hundred-Odd Years from Now | 1969-01-01 | An advertising film with a difference: Into a strange computerised future where women “run things†by controlling huge colourful computers that go… | |
| The Princess and the Pirate | La Roche | 1944-11-17 | Princess Margaret is travelling incognito to elope with her true love instead of marrying the man her father has betrothed her to. On the high seas, h… |
| The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | Stossel | 1962-08-07 | The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write s… |
| This Land Is Mine | Major Erich von Keller | 1943-05-07 | Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and c… |
| Ten Thousand Bedrooms | Papa Martelli | 1957-04-03 | In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying … |
| A Very Special Favor | 1965-08-02 | The long-lost father of a frigid, uptight Freudian psychologist contracts a wealthy American playboy who owes him a favor to woo his daughter…. | |
| Congress of Love | Der ‘Ewige Wiener’ | 1966-03-18 | Vienna 1965. While visiting the Wax Museum a group of tourists stop in front of the figure of Prince Metternich. All of a sudden they find themselves … |
| Confidentially Connie | Emil Spangenberg | 1953-03-12 | Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife Connie in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up h… |
| Salome, Where She Danced | Dimitrioff | 1945-04-17 | During the Austrian-Prussian war, Anna Marie is a dancer who is forced to flee her country after she is accused of being a spy. She ends up in a lawle… |
| Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion | Sgt. Axmann | 1950-08-05 | Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they… |
| O alte Burschenherrlichkeit | 1925-09-28 | … | |
| Die Lorelei | 1927-04-26 | … | |
| Ehegeheimnisse | 1927-01-18 | … | |
| Das Recht zu leben | 1927-03-23 | … | |
| Come September | Maurice Clavell | 1961-01-01 | Robert Talbot, an American millionaire, arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Italian villa. His long-time girlfriend Lisa has given … |
| People Will Talk | Prof. Barker | 1951-08-29 | Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius’s unorthodo… |
| Step Lively | Joe Gribble | 1944-07-26 | Fly-by-night producers dodge bill collectors while trying for one big hit…. |
| Heidi | Father Richter | 1968-11-17 | Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland. In order to get a job in Frankfurt, Dete brings 5-year-old Heid… |
| Spione im Savoy-Hotel | Kurt | 1932-11-04 | … |
| Sodom and Gomorrah | Eduard Harber – Student am Cambridge-Lyzeum / Ein Goldschmied von Galiläa | 1922-10-13 | Exposed to bad influences since childhood, Mary, a young girl is pushed by her mother to approach an elderly banker by the name of Harber. After almos… |
| Spy Hunt | Doctor Stahl | 1950-06-08 | Roger Quain, escorting two zoo-bound black panthers on the train from Milan to Paris, is unaware that a Western agent, Catherine Ullven, has hidden a… |
| Call Me Madam | August Tantinnin | 1953-03-25 | Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy…. |
| The Caper of the Golden Bulls | Antonio Gonzales | 1967-05-24 | Peter Churchman stopped robbing banks a long time ago and is now living as a wealthy and respected citizen in Pamplona, Spain. But then his former com… |
| A Cry of Angels | 1963-12-15 | Hallmark presents the story of how the greatest oratorio, George Frederic Handel’s “The Messiah,” came to be written in the English language…. | |
| Osudné noci | 1929-05-03 | … | |
| Twenty-Four Hours to Kill | Malouf | 1965-03-08 | When a jet airliner with engine trouble lands in Beirut for a twenty-four hour stopover, purser ‘Jonesey’ fears his life is in danger from a gold-smug… |
| Ledige Mütter | 1928-02-14 | … | |
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