Walter Slezak
Acting · Born 1902-05-03 · age 80 at death · 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.
Titles
Batman
Lifeboat
The Love Boat
The Pirate
People Will Talk
Born to Kill
Come September
This Land Is Mine
The Inspector General
Once Upon a Honeymoon
Michael
Sinbad the Sailor
Rawhide
Cornered
Treasure Island
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
The Spanish Main
Emil and the Detectives
Black Beauty
The Fallen Sparrow
The Princess and the Pirate
77 Sunset Strip
Call Me Madam
Riff-Raff
Dr. Kildare
Bedtime for Bonzo
Heidi
Sodom and Gomorrah
Studio One
Suspense
White Witch Doctor
A Very Special Favor
Spy Hunt
Step Lively
The Miracle
Twenty-Four Hours to Kill
Wonderful Life
Ten Thousand Bedrooms
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Robert Montgomery Presents
The Yellow Cab Man
The Caper of the Golden Bulls
Salome, Where She Danced
Letter to Loretta
Alcoa Theatre
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Confidentially Connie
Cain's Hundred
The Chevy Mystery Show
Telephone Time
Startime
Till We Meet Again
Outlaws
Omnibus
Danger
The Juggler of Notre Dame
Dr. Coppelius
Congress of Love