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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.256 |
| Birthday | 1902-05-03 |
| Place of Birth | Vienna, Austria |
| Also Known As | Уолтер Слезак, |
1964
Emil and the Detectives
6.1/28
When Emil travels by bus to Berlin to visit his grandmother and his cousin, his money is stolen by a crook who specializes in digging tunnels. Emil mu...
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Emil and the Detectives
1944
The Princess and the Pirate
6.7/23
Princess Margaret is travelling incognito to elope with her true love instead of marrying the man her father has betrothed her to. On the high seas, h...
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The Princess and the Pirate
1972
Treasure Island
5.4/29
Young Jim Hawkins finds himself serving with pirate captain Long John Silver in search of a buccaneer's treasure, in this short adaptation of Robert L...
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Treasure Island
1951
People Will Talk
7.1/85
Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius's unorthodo...
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People Will Talk
1961
Come September
6.75/72
Robert Talbot, an American millionaire, arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Italian villa. His long-time girlfriend Lisa has given...
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Come September
1947
Riff-Raff
6.1/20
A private detective foils the plans of villains attempting to take over Panamanian oilfields when he hides a valuable map in plain sight.
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Riff-Raff
1943
The Fallen Sparrow
5.7/21
Imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War, John "Kit" McKittrick is released when a New York City policeman pulls some strings. Upon returning to Americ...
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The Fallen Sparrow
1947
Born to Kill
6.677/79
A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.
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Born to Kill
1944
Lifeboat
7.4/427
During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship they were traveling on is destroyed by a German U-bo...
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Lifeboat
1949
The Inspector General
6.4/49
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mist...
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The Inspector General
1948
The Pirate
6.4/92
A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and...
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The Pirate
1971
Black Beauty
6/24
Anna Sewell's classic 1877 novel beautifully comes to life in this family drama set in England. Told from the point of view of Black Beauty himself, t...
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Black Beauty
1962
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
5.8/29
The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write s...
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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
1945
Cornered
6/42
A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.
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Cornered
1951
Bedtime for Bonzo
6/14
College prof Peter Boyd tries to salvage his professional and personal reputation by using a lab chimp to prove that environment trumps heredity in be...
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Bedtime for Bonzo
1947
Sinbad the Sailor
5.9/40
Daredevil sailor Sinbad embarks on a voyage across the Seven Seas to find the lost riches of Alexander the Great. His first stop is the port of Basra,...
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Sinbad the Sailor
1944
Step Lively
6/6
Fly-by-night producers dodge bill collectors while trying for one big hit.
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Step Lively
1942
Once Upon a Honeymoon
6.1/45
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
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Once Upon a Honeymoon
1943
This Land Is Mine
7.1/61
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and c...
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This Land Is Mine
1953
Call Me Madam
6.3/23
Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy.
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Call Me Madam
1924
Mein Leopold
0/0
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Mein Leopold
1924
Michael
6.3/39
The relationship between a master painter and his longtime model begins to collapse after the former agrees to paint a portrait for a Russian countess...
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Michael
1970
The Juggler of Notre Dame
6/1
After being arrested for stealing fruit while passing through a small village, a wandering minstrel serves his time in a creepy monastery.
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The Juggler of Notre Dame
1945
The Spanish Main
6.2/28
Laurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the Carolinas, when the ship is wrecked on the coast of Cartag...
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The Spanish Main
1950
The Yellow Cab Man
6.3/6
Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day that...
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The Yellow Cab Man
1968
Dr. Coppelius
7/1
Film based on the ballet 'Coppelia.' This version is completely silent, not containing the songs/narration, or animation of the later reworking, Myste...
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Dr. Coppelius
1954
The Steel Cage
0/0
Drama set in San Quentin prison.
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The Steel Cage
1944
Till We Meet Again
6/1
An American pilot is shot down over Nazi-occupied France and is taken to a convent by the Resistance. The young novice nun Clothilde is interested in...
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Till We Meet Again
1953
White Witch Doctor
6.3/9
Ellen Burton arrives in Africa to join Dr. Mary as her nurse, bringing modern medicine to the native peoples. Lonni Douglas, an animal wrangler and fo...
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White Witch Doctor
1959
The Miracle
6.7/7
A novice leaves a Spanish convent to follow a 19th-century British soldier she loves.
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The Miracle
1969
A Hundred-Odd Years from Now
0/0
An advertising film with a difference: Into a strange computerised future where women “run things” by controlling huge colourful computers that go ble...
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A Hundred-Odd Years from Now
1964
Wonderful Life
5.4/5
Cliff Richard and The Shadows are hired to star in a movie shot amid the lush tropical scenery of the Canary Islands. A sunny seaside spectacular, fil...
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Wonderful Life
1957
Ten Thousand Bedrooms
5/7
In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying...
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Ten Thousand Bedrooms
1965
A Very Special Favor
5.7/8
The long-lost father of a frigid, uptight Freudian psychologist contracts a wealthy American playboy who owes him a favor to woo his daughter.
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A Very Special Favor
1965
Twenty-Four Hours to Kill
5.3/6
When a jet airliner with engine trouble lands in Beirut for a twenty-four hour stopover, purser 'Jonesey' fears his life is in danger from a gold-smug...
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Twenty-Four Hours to Kill
1966
Congress of Love
1/1
Vienna 1965. While visiting the Wax Museum a group of tourists stop in front of the figure of Prince Metternich. All of a sudden they find themselves...
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Congress of Love
1968
Heidi
6.1/14
Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland. In order to get a job in Frankfurt, Dete brings 5-year-old Heid...
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Heidi
1950
Spy Hunt
5.9/8
Roger Quain, escorting two zoo-bound black panthers on the train from Milan to Paris, is unaware that a Western agent, Catherine Ullven, has hidden a...
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Spy Hunt
1967
The Caper of the Golden Bulls
5.6/5
Peter Churchman stopped robbing banks a long time ago and is now living as a wealthy and respected citizen in Pamplona, Spain. But then his former com...
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The Caper of the Golden Bulls
1932
Spione im Savoy-Hotel
5/1
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Spione im Savoy-Hotel
1953
Confidentially Connie
5.3/3
Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife Connie in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up h...
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Confidentially Connie
1927
Addio giovinezza!
6/1
The movie is about a student in Turin during the 1920s (moved up from the earlier versions) and his love for a a seamstress. The student, Mario, is pl...
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Addio giovinezza!
1922
Sodom and Gomorrah
5.8/12
Exposed to bad influences since childhood, Mary, a young girl is pushed by her mother to approach an elderly banker by the name of Harber. After almos...
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Sodom and Gomorrah
1976
The Mysterious House of Dr. C.
0/0
The Mysterious House of Dr. C. (1976) is a rarely seen, reworked version of the 1966 Dr. Coppelius, a dance film based on the classic 19th-century Leo...
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The Mysterious House of Dr. C.
1945
Salome, Where She Danced
3.7/6
During the Austrian-Prussian war, Anna Marie is a dancer who is forced to flee her country after she is accused of being a spy. She ends up in a lawle...
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Salome, Where She Danced
1950
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
6.1/34
Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they...
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
1926
Grüß mir das blonde Kind am Rhein
5/1
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Grüß mir das blonde Kind am Rhein
1957
Pinocchio
0/0
Pinocchio is a 1957 TV musical broadcast shown live on NBC, directed and choreographed by Hanya Holm. This version features songs by Alec Wilder.
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Pinocchio
1926
Aus des Rheinlands Schicksalstagen
3/1
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Aus des Rheinlands Schicksalstagen
1925
O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
0/0
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O alte Burschenherrlichkeit
1926
Junges Blut
0/0
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Junges Blut
1927
The Long Intermission
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The Long Intermission
1928
Almenrausch und Edelweiss
0/0
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Almenrausch und Edelweiss
1927
Die Lorelei
0/0
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Die Lorelei
1927
The Right to Live
0/0
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The Right to Live
1927
Ehegeheimnisse
0/0
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Ehegeheimnisse
1928
Ledige Mütter
0/0
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Ledige Mütter
1963
A Cry of Angels
0/0
Hallmark presents the story of how the greatest oratorio, George Frederic Handel's "The Messiah," came to be written in the English language.
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A Cry of Angels
1927
Liebe geht seltsame Wege
0/0
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Liebe geht seltsame Wege
1929
Eros in Ketten
0/0
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Eros in Ketten
1929
Osudné noci
0/0
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