Walter Slezak
Born in Vienna, Austria — May 03 1902• Died Apr 21 1983
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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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Batman
The Clock King
The Love Boat
Marcel Locksmith
Robert Montgomery Presents
Krisons Ringo
Studio One
Dr. Kildare
Dr. Max Jurgens
Rawhide
Lazio Tzgorni
What's My Line?
Self
77 Sunset Strip
Oskar Pauker
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Emil Markheim
Suspense
Dr. Potterton / Richard Morley
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self (uncredited)
Cain's Hundred
Arnie Grote
MGM Parade
self
Telephone Time
Outlaws
The Chevy Mystery Show
Host
Letter to Loretta
Emil Kronsteidt
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Mr. Reallybig
The Big Party
Self
Assignment: Vienna
Tandler
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Sinbad the Sailor
Melik
Lifeboat
Willi
The Name's the Same
Heidi
Father Richter
Cornered
Melchior Incza
People Will Talk
Prof. Barker
Riff-Raff
Eric Molinar
Come September
Maurice Clavell
Ten Thousand Bedrooms
Papa Martelli
The Princess and the Pirate
La Roche
Treasure Island
Squire Trelawney
Michael
Michael
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Stossel
The Spanish Main
Don Juan Alvarado
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
Sgt. Axmann
Spy Hunt
Doctor Stahl
Wonderful Life
Lloyd Davis
Confidentially Connie
Emil Spangenberg
White Witch Doctor
Huysman
The Miracle
Flaco
Once Upon a Honeymoon
Baron Franz Von Luber
Call Me Madam
August Tantinnin
The Steel Cage
Louis, the Prison Chef, segment "The Chef"
Salome, Where She Danced
Dimitrioff
The Pirate
Don Pedro Vargas
Till We Meet Again
Vitrey, The Mayor
The Fallen Sparrow
Dr. Christian Skaas
The Caper of the Golden Bulls
Antonio Gonzales
Bedtime for Bonzo
Professor Hans Neumann
The Inspector General
Yakov
Born to Kill
Matthew Arnett
Twenty-Four Hours to Kill
Malouf
The Yellow Cab Man
Dr. Byron Dokstedder
Congress of Love
Der 'Ewige Wiener'
This Land Is Mine
Major Erich von Keller
Step Lively
Joe Gribble
Emil and the Detectives
Baron
A Very Special Favor
Etienne
The Legend of Robin Hood
Friar Tuck
A Hundred-Odd Years from Now
Black Beauty
Hackenschmidt
Sodom and Gomorrah
Eduard Harber - Student am Cambridge-Lyzeum / Ein Goldschmied von Galiläa
Pinocchio
Gepetto
The Juggler of Notre Dame
The Innkeeper
Ehegeheimnisse
Junges Blut
Oberprimaner
The Right to Live
A Cry of Angels
O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
Grüß mir das blonde Kind am Rhein
Die Lorelei
Addio giovinezza!
Spione im Savoy-Hotel
Kurt
The Mysterious House of Dr. C.
Dr. Coppelius
Ledige Mütter
Eros in Ketten
Mein Leopold
Dr. Coppelius
Dr. Coppelius
Aus des Rheinlands Schicksalstagen
Walter Thiermann
The Long Intermission
Ottokar
Osudné noci
Almenrausch und Edelweiss
Mentel
Liebe geht seltsame Wege
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter