Walter Slezak

from Vienna, Austria

Artwork for Come SeptemberImage of 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.

Timeline

1976Aged 74

1972Aged 70

  • Poster for Treasure Island

    Squire Trelawney

1971Aged 69

  • Poster for Black Beauty

    Hackenschmidt

1970Aged 68

  • Poster for The Juggler of Notre Dame

    The Innkeeper

1969Aged 67

  • Poster for A Hundred-Odd Years from Now

    (Unknown)

1968Aged 66

  • Poster for The Legend of Robin Hood

    Friar Tuck

  • Poster for Heidi

    Father Richter

  • Poster for Dr. Coppelius

    Dr. Coppelius

1967Aged 65

  • Poster for The Caper of the Golden Bulls

    Antonio Gonzales

1966Aged 64

  • Poster for Congress of Love

    Der 'Ewige Wiener'

1965Aged 63

  • Poster for Twenty-Four Hours to Kill

    Malouf

  • Poster for A Very Special Favor

    Etienne

1964Aged 62

  • Poster for Wonderful Life

    Lloyd Davis

  • Poster for Emil and the Detectives

    Baron

1963Aged 61

  • Poster for A Cry of Angels

    George Frideric Handel

1962Aged 60

  • Poster for The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

    Stossel

1961Aged 59

  • Poster for Come September

    Maurice Clavell

1959Aged 57

  • Poster for The Miracle

    Flaco

1957Aged 55

  • Poster for Ten Thousand Bedrooms

    Papa Martelli

  • Poster for Pinocchio

    Gepetto

1956Aged 54

1954Aged 52

  • Poster for The Steel Cage

    Louis, the Prison Chef, segment "The Chef"

1953Aged 51

  • Poster for Confidentially Connie

    Emil Spangenberg

  • Poster for Call Me Madam

    August Tantinnin

  • Poster for White Witch Doctor

    Huysman

1951Aged 49

  • Poster for Bedtime for Bonzo

    Professor Hans Neumann

  • Poster for People Will Talk

    Barker

1950Aged 48

  • Poster for The Yellow Cab Man

    Dr. Byron Dokstedder

  • Poster for Spy Hunt

    Doctor Stahl

  • Poster for Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion

    Sgt. Axmann

1949Aged 47

  • Poster for The Inspector General

    Yakov

1948Aged 46

  • Poster for The Pirate

    Don Pedro Vargas

1947Aged 45

  • Poster for Sinbad the Sailor

    Melik

  • Poster for Born to Kill

    Matthew Arnett

  • Poster for Riff-Raff

    Eric Molinar

1945Aged 43

  • Poster for Salome, Where She Danced

    Dimitrioff

  • Poster for The Spanish Main

    Don Juan Alvarado

  • Poster for Cornered

    Melchior Incza

1944Aged 42

  • Poster for Lifeboat

    Willi

  • Poster for Step Lively

    Joe Gribble

  • Poster for Till We Meet Again

    Vitrey, The Mayor

  • Poster for The Princess and the Pirate

    La Roche

1943Aged 41

  • Poster for This Land Is Mine

    Major Erich von Keller

  • Poster for The Fallen Sparrow

    Dr. Christian Skaas

1942Aged 40

  • Poster for Once Upon a Honeymoon

    Baron Franz Von Luber

1932Aged 30

  • Poster for Spione im Savoy-Hotel

    Kurt

1929Aged 27

1928Aged 26

1927Aged 25

1926Aged 24

1925Aged 23

  • Poster for O alte Burschenherrlichkeit

    (Unknown)

1924Aged 22

  • Poster for Michael

    Eugene Michael

  • Poster for My Leopold

    (Unknown)

1922Aged 20

  • Poster for Sodom and Gomorrah

    Eduard Harber - Student am Cambridge-Lyzeum / Ein Goldschmied von Galiläa