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Walter Slezak

Actor

Walter Slezak

Born May 3, 1902 in Vienna, AustriaDied April 21, 198363 films

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.

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Lifeboat posterFirst watchLifeboat19447.4as WilliDuring 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-boat.View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
People Will Talk poster7.1People Will Talk1951This Land Is Mine poster7.1This Land Is Mine1943Born to Kill poster6.7Born to Kill1947The Pirate poster6.5The Pirate1948Come September poster6.8Come September1961The Inspector General poster6.6The Inspector General1949Michael poster6.4Michael1924Once Upon a Honeymoon poster6.3Once Upon a Honeymoon1942

Filmography

63 films as actor
  1. 1976The Mysterious House of Dr. C.Dr. Coppelius
  2. 1972Treasure IslandSquire Trelawney
  3. 1971Black BeautyHackenschmidt
  4. 1970The Juggler of Notre DameThe Innkeeper
  5. 1969A Hundred-Odd Years from Now
  6. 1968Dr. CoppeliusDr. Coppelius
  7. 1968HeidiFather Richter
  8. 1968The Legend of Robin HoodFriar Tuck
  9. 1967The Caper of the Golden BullsAntonio Gonzales
  10. 1966Congress of LoveDer 'Ewige Wiener'
  11. 1965A Very Special FavorEtienne
  12. 1965Twenty-Four Hours to KillMalouf
  13. 1964Emil and the DetectivesBaron
  14. 1964Wonderful LifeLloyd Davis
  15. 1963A Cry of Angels
  16. 1962The Wonderful World of the Brothers GrimmStossel
  17. 1961Come SeptemberMaurice Clavell
  18. 1959The MiracleFlaco
  19. 1957PinocchioGepetto
  20. 1957Ten Thousand BedroomsPapa Martelli
  21. 1956THe Good FairyMax Sporum
  22. 1954The Steel CageLouis, the Prison Chef, segment "The Chef"
  23. 1953White Witch DoctorHuysman
  24. 1953Call Me MadamAugust Tantinnin
  25. 1953Confidentially ConnieEmil Spangenberg
  26. 1951People Will TalkBarker
  27. 1951Bedtime for BonzoProfessor Hans Neumann
  28. 1950Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign LegionSgt. Axmann
  29. 1950Spy HuntDoctor Stahl
  30. 1950The Yellow Cab ManDr. Byron Dokstedder
  31. 1949The Inspector GeneralYakov
  32. 1948The PirateDon Pedro Vargas
  33. 1947Riff-RaffEric Molinar
  34. 1947Born to KillMatthew Arnett
  35. 1947Sinbad the SailorMelik
  36. 1945CorneredMelchior Incza
  37. 1945The Spanish MainDon Juan Alvarado
  38. 1945Salome, Where She DancedDimitrioff
  39. 1944The Princess and the PirateLa Roche
  40. 1944Till We Meet AgainVitrey, The Mayor
  41. 1944Step LivelyJoe Gribble
  42. 1944LifeboatWilli
  43. 1943The Fallen SparrowDr. Christian Skaas
  44. 1943This Land Is MineMajor Erich von Keller
  45. 1942Once Upon a HoneymoonBaron Franz Von Luber
  46. 1932Spione im Savoy-HotelKurt
  47. 1929Eros in Ketten
  48. 1929Osudné noci
  49. 1928Almenrausch und EdelweissMentel
  50. 1928Ledige Mütter
  51. 1927The Long IntermissionOttokar
  52. 1927The Ways of Love Are Strange
  53. 1927Die Lorelei
  54. 1927The Right to Live
  55. 1927Addio giovinezza!
  56. 1926Ehegeheimnisse
  57. 1926Junges BlutOberprimaner
  58. 1926Aus des Rheinlands SchicksalstagenWalter Thiermann
  59. 1926Grüß mir das blonde Kind am Rhein
  60. 1925O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
  61. 1924Mein Leopold
  62. 1924MichaelMichael
  63. 1922Sodom and GomorrahEduard Harber - Student am Cambridge-Lyzeum / Ein Goldschmied von Galiläa