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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

Gender

Male

Birthday

1902-05-03

Deathday

1983-04-21 (80 years old)

Place of Birth

Vienna, Austria

Also Known As

Уолтер Слезак

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.

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Acting

1977

The Love Boat as Marcel Locksmith

1976

The Mysterious House of Dr. C. as Dr. Coppelius

1972		Treasure Island as Squire Trelawney
1972		Assignment: Vienna as Tandler

1971

Black Beauty as Hackenschmidt

1970		Filmgeschichte(n) aus Österreich as Self
1970		The Juggler of Notre Dame as The Innkeeper

1969

A Hundred-Odd Years from Now

1968		Dr. Coppelius as Dr. Coppelius
1968		Heidi as Father Richter
1968		Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self (uncredited)

1967

The Caper of the Golden Bulls as Antonio Gonzales

1966		Congress of Love as Der 'Ewige Wiener'
1966		Batman as The Clock King

1965		A Very Special Favor as Etienne
1965		Twenty-Four Hours to Kill as Malouf

1964		Emil and the Detectives as Baron
1964		Wonderful Life as Lloyd Davis

1963

A Cry of Angels

1962		The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1962		The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1962		The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm as Stossel

1961		The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1961		The Mike Douglas Show as Self - Co-Host
1961		Dr. Kildare as Dr. Max Jurgens
1961		Cain's Hundred as Arnie Grote
1961		Come September as Maurice Clavell

1960		Outlaws
1960		The Chevy Mystery Show as Host

1959		The Miracle as Flaco
1959		The Big Party as Self
1959		Rawhide as Lazio Tzgorni

1958

77 Sunset Strip as Oskar Pauker

1957		Pinocchio as Gepetto
1957		Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
1957		Ten Thousand Bedrooms as Papa Martelli

1956		The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self
1956		Telephone Time
1956		Tony Awards as Self - Presenter

1955

The 20th Century Fox Hour as Emil Markheim

1954

The Steel Cage as Louis, the Prison Chef, segment "The Chef"

1953		Letter to Loretta as Emil Kronsteidt
1953		White Witch Doctor as Huysman
1953		Call Me Madam as August Tantinnin
1953		Confidentially Connie as Emil Spangenberg

1952

Omnibus

1951		Hallmark Hall of Fame as Mr. Reallybig
1951		Hallmark Hall of Fame as George Frederic Handel
1951		The Name's the Same
1951		Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951		People Will Talk as Prof. Barker
1951		Bedtime for Bonzo as Professor Hans Neumann

1950		Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion as Sgt. Axmann
1950		Spy Hunt as Doctor Stahl
1950		The Yellow Cab Man as Dr. Byron Dokstedder
1950		What's My Line? as Self
1950		Robert Montgomery Presents as Krisons Ringo

1949		The Inspector General as Yakov
1949		Suspense as Dr. Potterton / Richard Morley
1949		Suspense as Frank Cadwallader
1949		Suspense

1948		Studio One
1948		Studio One as Lev Simon
1948		The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
1948		The Pirate as Don Pedro Vargas

1947		Riff-Raff as Eric Molinar
1947		Born to Kill as Matthew Arnett
1947		Sinbad the Sailor as Melik

1945		Cornered as Melchior Incza
1945		The Spanish Main as Don Juan Alvarado
1945		Salome, Where She Danced as Dimitrioff

1944		The Princess and the Pirate as La Roche
1944		Till We Meet Again as Vitrey, The Mayor
1944		Step Lively as Joe Gribble
1944		Lifeboat as Willi

1943		The Fallen Sparrow as Dr. Christian Skaas
1943		This Land Is Mine as Major Erich von Keller

1942

Once Upon a Honeymoon as Baron Franz Von Luber

1932

Spione im Savoy-Hotel as Kurt

1929		Eros in Ketten
1929		Osudné noci

1928		Almenrausch und Edelweiss as Mentel
1928		Ledige Mütter

1927		The Long Intermission as Ottokar
1927		Liebe geht seltsame Wege
1927		Die Lorelei
1927		The Right to Live
1927		Addio giovinezza!
1927		Ehegeheimnisse

1926		Junges Blut as Oberprimaner
1926		Aus des Rheinlands Schicksalstagen as Walter Thiermann
1926		Grüß mir das blonde Kind am Rhein

1925

O alte Burschenherrlichkeit

1924		Mein Leopold
1924		Michael as Michael

1922

Sodom and Gomorrah as Eduard Harber - Student am Cambridge-Lyzeum / Ein Goldschmied von Galiläa