Walter Slezak
Acting
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.
As actor 97
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Love Boat
1977
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Tony Awards
1956
Batman
1966
What's My Line?
1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Danger
1950
Studio One
1948
Rawhide
1959
Dr. Kildare
1961
Omnibus
1952
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
Cain's Hundred
1961
Suspense
1949
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
Telephone Time
1956
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
Outlaws
1960
77 Sunset Strip
1958
MGM Parade
1955
Alcoa Theatre
1957
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
Startime
1959
The Chevy Mystery Show
1960
The Pirate
1948
The Name's the Same
1951
Letter to Loretta
1953
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Treasure Island
1972
Assignment: Vienna
1972
Sinbad the Sailor
1947
Mein Leopold
1924
The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
1960
Come September
1961
The Big Party
1959
Salome, Where She Danced
1945
Lifeboat
1944
Heidi
1968
Addio giovinezza!
1927
Step Lively
1944
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
1950
The Inspector General
1949
Riff-Raff
1947
Emil and the Detectives
1964
The Princess and the Pirate
1944
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
1962
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Cornered
1945
Junges Blut
1926
Born to Kill
1947
The Fallen Sparrow
1943
Once Upon a Honeymoon
1942
Call Me Madam
1953
The Legend of Robin Hood
1968
The Spanish Main
1945
Confidentially Connie
1953
Ten Thousand Bedrooms
1957
People Will Talk
1951
Sodom and Gomorrah
1922
This Land Is Mine
1943
Bedtime for Bonzo
1951
Ehegeheimnisse
1926
White Witch Doctor
1953
Die Lorelei
1927
The Miracle
1959
Filmgeschichte(n) aus Österreich
1970
The Caper of the Golden Bulls
1967
Spy Hunt
1950
Michael
1924
The Steel Cage
1954
Twenty-Four Hours to Kill
1965
Black Beauty
1971
A Very Special Favor
1965
O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
1925
Wonderful Life
1964
The Right to Live
1927
Ledige Mütter
1928
Congress of Love
1966
The Juggler of Notre Dame
1970
Till We Meet Again
1944
Pinocchio
1957
A Cry of Angels
1963
A Hundred-Odd Years from Now
1969
The Yellow Cab Man
1950
The Long Intermission
1927
Eros in Ketten
1929
The Ways of Love Are Strange
1927
Osudné noci
1929
Spione im Savoy-Hotel
1932
Dr. Coppelius
1968
The Mysterious House of Dr. C.
1976
Grüß mir das blonde Kind am Rhein
1926
Almenrausch und Edelweiss
1928
Aus des Rheinlands Schicksalstagen
1926