Walter Slezak
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 engineer 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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- Born:
- May 3, 1902 In Vienna, Austria
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 41
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Sodom and Gomorrah 1922-10-13
- Latest Project:
- Movie Treasure Island 1972-10-01
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Treasure Island | Squire Trelawney | 1972-10-01 |
| Movie | Black Beauty | Hackenschmidt | 1971-04-01 |
| Movie | Heidi | Father Richter | 1968-11-17 |
| Movie | Dr. Coppelius | Dr. Coppelius | 1968-12-25 |
| Movie | The Caper of the Golden Bulls | Antonio Gonzales | 1967-05-24 |
| Movie | Congress of Love | Der 'Ewige Wiener' | 1966-03-18 |
| Movie | Twenty-Four Hours to Kill | Malouf | 1965-03-08 |
| Movie | A Very Special Favor | Etienne | 1965-08-02 |
| Movie | Wonderful Life | Lloyd Davis | 1964-06-03 |
| Movie | The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | Stossel | 1962-08-07 |
| Movie | Come September | Maurice Clavell | 1961-01-01 |
| Movie | The Miracle | Flaco | 1959-11-12 |
| Movie | Ten Thousand Bedrooms | Papa Martelli | 1957-04-03 |
| Movie | The Steel Cage | Louis, the Prison Chef, segment "The Chef" | 1954-12-01 |
| Movie | Confidentially Connie | Emil Spangenberg | 1953-03-12 |
| Movie | White Witch Doctor | Huysman | 1953-07-01 |
| Movie | Call Me Madam | August Tantinnin | 1953-03-25 |
| Movie | Bedtime for Bonzo | Professor Hans Neumann | 1951-04-05 |
| Movie | People Will Talk | Prof. Barker | 1951-08-29 |
| Movie | The Yellow Cab Man | Dr. Byron Dokstedder | 1950-03-25 |
| Movie | Spy Hunt | Doctor Stahl | 1950-06-08 |
| Movie | Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion | Sgt. Axmann | 1950-08-05 |
| Movie | The Inspector General | Yakov | 1949-12-31 |
| Movie | The Pirate | Don Pedro Vargas | 1948-06-11 |
| Movie | Sinbad the Sailor | Melik | 1947-01-13 |
| Movie | Born to Kill | Matthew Arnett | 1947-04-30 |
| Movie | Riff-Raff | Eric Molinar | 1947-06-28 |
| Movie | Salome, Where She Danced | Dimitrioff | 1945-04-17 |
| Movie | The Spanish Main | Don Juan Alvarado | 1945-10-01 |
| Movie | Lifeboat | Willi | 1944-01-28 |
| Movie | Step Lively | Joe Gribble | 1944-07-26 |
| Movie | Till We Meet Again | Vitrey, The Mayor | 1944-08-30 |
| Movie | The Princess and the Pirate | La Roche | 1944-11-17 |
| Movie | This Land Is Mine | Major Erich von Keller | 1943-05-07 |
| Movie | Once Upon a Honeymoon | Baron Franz Von Luber | 1942-11-27 |
| Movie | Spione im Savoy-Hotel | Kurt | 1932-11-04 |
| Movie | The Long Intermission | Ottokar | 1927-11-09 |
| Movie | Junges Blut | Oberprimaner | 1926-03-23 |
| Movie | Grüß mir das blonde Kind am Rhein | 1926-01-21 | |
| Movie | Michael | Michael | 1924-09-26 |
| Movie | Sodom and Gomorrah | Eduard Harber - Student am Cambridge-Lyzeum / Ein Goldschmied von Galiläa | 1922-10-13 |