Walter Slezak
Acting
Born May 3, 1902 · Vienna, Austria
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.
Films (62)
The Mysterious House of Dr. C.
1976
Treasure Island
1972
Black Beauty
1971
The Juggler of Notre Dame
1970
A Hundred-Odd Years from Now
1969
Dr. Coppelius
1968
Heidi
1968
The Legend of Robin Hood
1968
The Caper of the Golden Bulls
1967
Congress of Love
1966
A Very Special Favor
1965
Twenty-Four Hours to Kill
1965
Emil and the Detectives
1964
Wonderful Life
1964
A Cry of Angels
1963
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
1962
Come September
1961
The Miracle
1959
Pinocchio
1957
Ten Thousand Bedrooms
1957
The Steel Cage
1954
White Witch Doctor
1953
Call Me Madam
1953
Confidentially Connie
1953
People Will Talk
1951
Bedtime for Bonzo
1951
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
1950
Spy Hunt
1950
The Yellow Cab Man
1950
The Inspector General
1949
The Pirate
1948
Riff-Raff
1947
Born to Kill
1947
Sinbad the Sailor
1947
Cornered
1945
The Spanish Main
1945
Salome, Where She Danced
1945
The Princess and the Pirate
1944
Till We Meet Again
1944
Step Lively
1944
Lifeboat
1944
The Fallen Sparrow
1943
This Land Is Mine
1943
Once Upon a Honeymoon
1942
Spione im Savoy-Hotel
1932
Eros in Ketten
1929
Osudné noci
1929
Almenrausch und Edelweiss
1928
Ledige Mütter
1928
The Long Intermission
1927
Liebe geht seltsame Wege
1927
Die Lorelei
1927
The Right to Live
1927
Addio giovinezza!
1927
Ehegeheimnisse
1927
Junges Blut
1926
Aus des Rheinlands Schicksalstagen
1926
Grüß mir das blonde Kind am Rhein
1926
O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
1925
Mein Leopold
1924
Michael
1924
Sodom and Gomorrah
1922