Walter Slezak
Birthday
May 03, 1902
Day of Death
Apr 21, 1983 (80 years)
Place of Birth
Vienna, Austria
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.
Movies (62)
The Spanish Main
1945
People Will Talk
1951
The Yellow Cab Man
1950
Pinocchio
1957
Confidentially Connie
1953
Heidi
1968
Twenty-Four Hours to Kill
1965
Riff-Raff
1947
Treasure Island
1972
Lifeboat
1944
The Pirate
1948
Sinbad the Sailor
1947
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
1962
Ehegeheimnisse
1927
The Inspector General
1949
Cornered
1945
Born to Kill
1947
This Land Is Mine
1943
TV Shows (35)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
The Love Boat
1977
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
What's My Line?
1950
Batman
1966
Studio One
1948
Studio One
1948
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Dr. Kildare
1961
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
Rawhide
1959
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
77 Sunset Strip
1958
Omnibus
1952
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
Telephone Time
1956