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.
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Acting History
1977
The Love Boat as Marcel Locksmith
1976The Mysterious House of Dr. C. as Dr. Coppelius
1972Treasure Island as Squire Trelawney
1972Assignment: Vienna as Tandler
1971Black Beauty as Hackenschmidt
1970Filmgeschichte(n) aus Österreich as Self
1970The Juggler of Notre Dame as The Innkeeper
1969A Hundred-Odd Years from Now
1968Dr. Coppelius as Dr. Coppelius
1968Heidi as Father Richter
1968The Legend of Robin Hood as Friar Tuck
1968Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self (uncredited)
1967The Caper of the Golden Bulls as Antonio Gonzales
1966Congress of Love as Der 'Ewige Wiener'
1966Batman as The Clock King
1965A Very Special Favor as Etienne
1965Twenty-Four Hours to Kill as Malouf
1964Emil and the Detectives as Baron
1964Wonderful Life as Lloyd Davis
1963A Cry of Angels
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1962The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1962The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm as Stossel
1961The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1961The Mike Douglas Show as Self - Co-Host
1961Dr. Kildare as Dr. Max Jurgens
1961Cain's Hundred as Arnie Grote
1961Come September as Maurice Clavell
1960Outlaws
1960The Chevy Mystery Show as Host
1959The Miracle as Flaco
1959The Big Party as Self
1959Rawhide as Lazio Tzgorni
195877 Sunset Strip as Oskar Pauker
1957Pinocchio as Gepetto
1957Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
1957Ten Thousand Bedrooms as Papa Martelli
1956The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self
1956Telephone Time
1956Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
1955The 20th Century Fox Hour as Emil Markheim
1954The Steel Cage as Louis, the Prison Chef, segment "The Chef"
1953Letter to Loretta as Emil Kronsteidt
1953White Witch Doctor as Huysman
1953Call Me Madam as August Tantinnin
1953Confidentially Connie as Emil Spangenberg
1952Omnibus
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Mr. Reallybig
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as George Frederic Handel
1951The Name's the Same
1951Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951People Will Talk as Prof. Barker
1951Bedtime for Bonzo as Professor Hans Neumann
1950Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion as Sgt. Axmann
1950Spy Hunt as Doctor Stahl
1950The Yellow Cab Man as Dr. Byron Dokstedder
1950What's My Line? as Self
1950Robert Montgomery Presents as Krisons Ringo
1949The Inspector General as Yakov
1949Suspense as Dr. Potterton / Richard Morley
1949Suspense as Frank Cadwallader
1949Suspense
1948Studio One
1948Studio One as Lev Simon
1948The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
1948The Pirate as Don Pedro Vargas
1947Riff-Raff as Eric Molinar
1947Born to Kill as Matthew Arnett
1947Sinbad the Sailor as Melik
1945Cornered as Melchior Incza
1945The Spanish Main as Don Juan Alvarado
1945Salome, Where She Danced as Dimitrioff
1944The Princess and the Pirate as La Roche
1944Till We Meet Again as Vitrey, The Mayor
1944Step Lively as Joe Gribble
1944Lifeboat as Willi
1943The Fallen Sparrow as Dr. Christian Skaas
1943This Land Is Mine as Major Erich von Keller
1942Once Upon a Honeymoon as Baron Franz Von Luber
1932Spione im Savoy-Hotel as Kurt
1929Eros in Ketten
1929Osudné noci
1928Almenrausch und Edelweiss as Mentel
1928Ledige Mütter
1927The Long Intermission as Ottokar
1927Liebe geht seltsame Wege
1927Die Lorelei
1927The Right to Live
1927Addio giovinezza!
1927Ehegeheimnisse
1926Junges Blut as Oberprimaner
1926Aus des Rheinlands Schicksalstagen as Walter Thiermann
1926Grüß mir das blonde Kind am Rhein
1925O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
1924Mein Leopold
1924Michael as Michael
1922Sodom and Gomorrah as Eduard Harber - Student am Cambridge-Lyzeum / Ein Goldschmied von Galiläa