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Walter Slezak
May 3, 1902 (age 80)
April 21, 1983
Vienna, Austria
Male
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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…
Movies
62 credits
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The Inspector General
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Lifeboat
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People Will Talk
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The Princess and the Pirate
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Aus des Rheinlands Schicksalstagen
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Grüß mir das blonde Kind am Rhein
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Spione im Savoy-Hotel
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Treasure Island
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Confidentially Connie
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Emil and the Detectives
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Almenrausch und Edelweiss
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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
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Ehegeheimnisse
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Riff-Raff
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The Long Intermission
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The Pirate
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Heidi
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The Caper of the Golden Bulls
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Come September
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Wonderful Life
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Pinocchio
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Born to Kill
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Step Lively
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The Miracle
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Ten Thousand Bedrooms
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Once Upon a Honeymoon
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This Land Is Mine
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Sinbad the Sailor
TV Shows
35 credits
TV
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Outlaws
TV
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Telephone Time
TV
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77 Sunset Strip
TV
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Suspense
TV
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Suspense
TV
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Suspense
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The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV
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Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
TV
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Cain's Hundred
TV
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The Chevy Mystery Show
TV
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MGM Parade
TV
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Letter to Loretta
TV
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The Big Party
TV
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The Name's the Same