Walter Slezak
Born: 1902-05-03 in Vienna, Austria
Died: 1983-04-21
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1977
- The Love Boat as Marcel Locksmith
1976
- The Mysterious House of Dr. C. as Dr. Coppelius
1972
- Assignment: Vienna as Tandler
- Treasure Island as Squire Trelawney
1971
- Black Beauty as Hackenschmidt
1970
- Filmgeschichte(n) aus Österreich as Self
- The Juggler of Notre Dame as The Innkeeper
1968
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self (uncredited)
- Heidi as Father Richter
- Dr. Coppelius as Dr. Coppelius
- The Legend of Robin Hood as Friar Tuck
1967
- The Caper of the Golden Bulls as Antonio Gonzales
1966
- Batman as The Clock King
- Congress of Love as Der 'Ewige Wiener'
1965
- A Very Special Favor as Etienne
- Twenty-Four Hours to Kill as Malouf
1964
- Wonderful Life as Lloyd Davis
- Emil and the Detectives as Baron
1963
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm as Stossel
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self - Co-Host
- Dr. Kildare as Dr. Max Jurgens
- Cain's Hundred as Arnie Grote
- Come September as Maurice Clavell
1960
- Outlaws
- The Chevy Mystery Show as Host
1959
- Rawhide as Lazio Tzgorni
- Startime as Joseph
- The Big Party as Self
- The Miracle as Flaco
1958
- 77 Sunset Strip as Oskar Pauker
1957
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
- Alcoa Theatre as Finch
- Ten Thousand Bedrooms as Papa Martelli
- Pinocchio as Gepetto
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
- The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self
- Telephone Time as Henri Charpentier
1955
- The 20th Century Fox Hour as Emil Markheim
- MGM Parade as self
1954
- The Steel Cage as Louis, the Prison Chef, segment "The Chef"
1953
- Letter to Loretta as Emil Kronsteidt
- Call Me Madam as August Tantinnin
- White Witch Doctor as Huysman
- Confidentially Connie as Emil Spangenberg
1952
- Omnibus as Major Paul Petkoff
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Mr. Reallybig
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
- People Will Talk as Prof. Barker
- The Name's the Same as Self
- Bedtime for Bonzo as Professor Hans Neumann
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents as Krisons Ringo
- What's My Line? as Self
- Danger
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion as Sgt. Axmann
- The Yellow Cab Man as Dr. Byron Dokstedder
- Spy Hunt as Doctor Stahl
1949
- Suspense as Dr. Potterton / Richard Morley
- The Inspector General as Yakov
1948
- Studio One
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- The Pirate as Don Pedro Vargas
1947
- Sinbad the Sailor as Melik
- Born to Kill as Matthew Arnett
- Riff-Raff as Eric Molinar
1945
- Cornered as Melchior Incza
- The Spanish Main as Don Juan Alvarado
- Salome, Where She Danced as Dimitrioff
1944
- Lifeboat as Willi
- The Princess and the Pirate as La Roche
- Step Lively as Joe Gribble
- Till We Meet Again as Vitrey, The Mayor
1943
- This Land Is Mine as Major Erich von Keller
- The Fallen Sparrow as Dr. Christian Skaas
1942
- Once Upon a Honeymoon as Baron Franz Von Luber
1932
- Spione im Savoy-Hotel as Kurt
1928
- Almenrausch und Edelweiss as Mentel
- Ledige Mütter
1927
1926
- Junges Blut as Oberprimaner
- Ehegeheimnisse
- Aus des Rheinlands Schicksalstagen as Walter Thiermann
- Grüß mir das blonde Kind am Rhein
1924
- Michael as Michael
- Mein Leopold
1922
- Sodom and Gomorrah as Eduard Harber - Student am Cambridge-Lyzeum / Ein Goldschmied von Galiläa