Personal Info
Birthday
May 3, 1902
Place of Birth
Vienna, Austria
Known For
Acting
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 version of Treasure Island.
Acting Filmography (81)
6.3
The Love Boat
TV Series1977
5.9
Treasure Island
Movie1972
9.0
Assignment: Vienna
TV Series1972
6.0
Black Beauty
Movie1971
No Backdrop
7.5
The Juggler of Notre Dame
Movie1970
No Backdrop
0.0
A Hundred-Odd Years from Now
Movie1969
No Backdrop
7.5
Dr. Coppelius
Movie1968
6.3
Heidi
Movie1968
No Backdrop
0.0
The Legend of Robin Hood
Movie1968
6.8
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
TV Series1968
6.3
The Caper of the Golden Bulls
Movie1967
No Backdrop
4.0
Congress of Love
Movie1966
7.3
Batman
TV Series1966
5.9
A Very Special Favor
Movie1965
6.1
Twenty-Four Hours to Kill
Movie1965
6.2
Emil and the Detectives
Movie1964
4.9
Wonderful Life
Movie1964
No Backdrop
0.0
A Cry of Angels
Movie1963
No Backdrop
6.6
The Merv Griffin Show
TV Series1962
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV Series1962
5.9
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Movie1962
5.8
The Mike Douglas Show
TV Series1961
5.7
Dr. Kildare
TV Series1961
5.3
Cain's Hundred
TV Series1961
6.8
Come September
Movie1961
6.7
Outlaws
TV Series1960
6.7
The Miracle
Movie1959
No Backdrop
6.8
Startime
TV Series1959
7.2
Rawhide
TV Series1959
7.2
77 Sunset Strip
TV Series1958
No Backdrop
8.0
Pinocchio
Movie1957
No Backdrop
7.0
Alcoa Theatre
TV Series1957
5.6
Ten Thousand Bedrooms
Movie1957
6.4
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
TV Series1956
No Backdrop
6.5
Telephone Time
TV Series1956
No Backdrop
0.0
Tony Awards
TV Series1956
6.0
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV Series1955
7.5
MGM Parade
TV Series1955
7.0
The Steel Cage
Movie1954
6.6
Letter to Loretta
TV Series1953
6.5
White Witch Doctor
Movie1953
6.2
Call Me Madam
Movie1953
5.8
Confidentially Connie
Movie1953
No Backdrop
6.3
Omnibus
TV Series1952
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV Series1951
No Backdrop
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV Series1951
7.1
People Will Talk
Movie1951
6.1
Bedtime for Bonzo
Movie1951
6.1
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
Movie1950
6.1
Spy Hunt
Movie1950
6.9
The Yellow Cab Man
Movie1950
7.0
What's My Line?
TV Series1950
6.0
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV Series1950
6.6
The Inspector General
Movie1949
No Backdrop
5.1
Suspense
TV Series1949
5.4
Studio One
TV Series1948
6.8
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV Series1948
6.5
The Pirate
Movie1948
6.2
Riff-Raff
Movie1947
6.7
Born to Kill
Movie1947
6.0
Sinbad the Sailor
Movie1947
6.2
Cornered
Movie1945
6.4
The Spanish Main
Movie1945
4.1
Salome, Where She Danced
Movie1945
6.9
The Princess and the Pirate
Movie1944
7.0
Till We Meet Again
Movie1944
6.7
Step Lively
Movie1944
7.4
Lifeboat
Movie1944
6.0
The Fallen Sparrow
Movie1943
7.1
This Land Is Mine
Movie1943
6.3
Once Upon a Honeymoon
Movie1942
No Backdrop
7.5
Spione im Savoy-Hotel
Movie1932
No Backdrop
9.0
Almenrausch und Edelweiss
Movie1928
No Backdrop
0.0
The Right to Live
Movie1927
No Backdrop
8.0
Addio giovinezza!
Movie1927
No Backdrop
10.0
Junges Blut
Movie1926
No Backdrop
6.0
Grüß mir das blonde Kind am Rhein
Movie1926
No Backdrop
8.0
O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
Movie1925
No Backdrop
10.0
Mein Leopold
Movie1924
6.3
Michael
Movie1924
6.1
Sodom and Gomorrah
Movie1922