Actor profile
Walter Slezak
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.
53 Movies
35 TV Shows
104 Credits
Filmography
Movies & TV Shows
A Hundred-Odd Years from Now
1st January 1969
A Cry of Angels
15th December 1963
The Right to Live
23rd March 1927
Addio giovinezza!
30th January 1927
Grüß mir das blonde Kind am Rhein
21st January 1926
O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
28th September 1925
Mein Leopold
30th September 1924
Sodom and Gomorrah
13th October 1922 as Eduard Harber - Student am Cambridge-Lyzeum / Ein Goldschmied von Galiläa
Outlaws
26th September 1960
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
5th October 1951
Suspense
6th January 1949
Studio One
7th November 1948