Actor
Walter Slezak
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 ver ...

Known For
Acting
1976 -- The Mysterious House of Dr. C. | Dr. Coppelius
1972 -- Treasure Island | Squire Trelawney
1971 -- Black Beauty | Hackenschmidt
1970 -- The Juggler of Notre Dame | The Innkeeper
1969 -- A Hundred-Odd Years from Now |
1968 -- Dr. Coppelius | Dr. Coppelius
1968 -- Heidi | Father Richter
1967 -- The Caper of the Golden Bulls | Antonio Gonzales
1966 -- Congress of Love | Der 'Ewige Wiener'
1965 -- A Very Special Favor | Etienne
1965 -- Twenty-Four Hours to Kill | Malouf
1964 -- Emil and the Detectives | Baron
1964 -- Wonderful Life | Lloyd Davis
1963 -- A Cry of Angels |
1962 -- The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | Stossel
1961 -- Come September | Maurice Clavell
1959 -- The Miracle | Flaco
1957 -- Pinocchio | Gepetto
1957 -- Ten Thousand Bedrooms | Papa Martelli
1954 -- The Steel Cage | Louis, the Prison Chef, segment "The Chef"
1953 -- White Witch Doctor | Huysman
1953 -- Call Me Madam | August Tantinnin
1953 -- Confidentially Connie | Emil Spangenberg
1951 -- People Will Talk | Prof. Barker
1951 -- Bedtime for Bonzo | Professor Hans Neumann
1950 -- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion | Sgt. Axmann
1950 -- Spy Hunt | Doctor Stahl
1950 -- The Yellow Cab Man | Dr. Byron Dokstedder
1949 -- The Inspector General | Yakov
1948 -- The Pirate | Don Pedro Vargas
1947 -- Riff-Raff | Eric Molinar
1947 -- Born to Kill | Matthew Arnett
1947 -- Sinbad the Sailor | Melik
1945 -- Cornered | Melchior Incza
1945 -- The Spanish Main | Don Juan Alvarado
1945 -- Salome, Where She Danced | Dimitrioff
1944 -- The Princess and the Pirate | La Roche
1944 -- Till We Meet Again | Vitrey, The Mayor
1944 -- Step Lively | Joe Gribble
1944 -- Lifeboat | Willi
1943 -- The Fallen Sparrow | Dr. Christian Skaas
1943 -- This Land Is Mine | Major Erich von Keller
1942 -- Once Upon a Honeymoon | Baron Franz Von Luber
1932 -- Spione im Savoy-Hotel | Kurt
1929 -- Eros in Ketten |
1929 -- Osudné noci |
1928 -- Almenrausch und Edelweiss | Mentel
1928 -- Ledige Mütter |
1927 -- The Long Intermission | Ottokar
1927 -- Liebe geht seltsame Wege |
1927 -- Die Lorelei |
1927 -- The Right to Live |
1927 -- Addio giovinezza! |
1927 -- Ehegeheimnisse |
1926 -- Junges Blut | Oberprimaner
1926 -- Aus des Rheinlands Schicksalstagen | Walter Thiermann
1926 -- Grüß mir das blonde Kind am Rhein |
1925 -- O alte Burschenherrlichkeit |
1924 -- Mein Leopold |
1924 -- Michael | Michael
1922 -- Sodom and Gomorrah | Eduard Harber - Student am Cambridge-Lyzeum / Ein Goldschmied von Galiläa
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