Walter Slezak
Birthday: 1902-05-03
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
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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Emil and the Detectives
When Emil travels by bus to Berlin to visit his family, his money is stolen by a crook who specializ...
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The Princess and the Pirate
Princess Margaret is travelling incognito to elope with her true love instead of marrying the man he...
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Treasure Island
Young Jim Hawkins finds himself serving with pirate captain Long John Silver in search of a buccanee...
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People Will Talk
A successful, unorthodox doctor befriends a young woman with suicidal ideations due to her pregnancy...
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Come September
Robert Talbot, an American millionaire, arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Itali...
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Riff-Raff
A private detective foils the plans of villains attempting to take over Panamanian oil fields while ...
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The Fallen Sparrow
Imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War, John "Kit" McKittrick is released when a New York City poli...
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Born to Kill
A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getti...
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Lifeboat
During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship th...
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The Inspector General
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a ...
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The Pirate
A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Maco...
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Black Beauty
Told from the POV of Black Beauty himself, his birth and perception of humans are explored, but his ...
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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have...
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Cornered
A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife....
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Bedtime for Bonzo
College prof Peter Boyd tries to salvage his professional and personal reputation by using a lab chi...
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Sinbad the Sailor
Daredevil sailor Sinbad embarks on a voyage across the Seven Seas to find the lost riches of Alexand...
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Step Lively
Fly-by-night producers dodge bill collectors while trying for one big hit....
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Once Upon a Honeymoon
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official....
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This Land Is Mine
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn bet...
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Call Me Madam
Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy....
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Michael
A gay art student is accused of causing the death of the renowned painter who secretly loved him....
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The Juggler of Notre Dame
After being arrested for stealing fruit while passing through a small village, a wandering minstrel ...
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The Spanish Main
Laurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the Carolina...
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The Yellow Cab Man
Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is alway...
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Dr. Coppelius
Film based on the ballet 'Coppelia.' This version is completely silent, not containing the songs/nar...
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Till We Meet Again
An American pilot is shot down over Nazi-occupied France and is taken to a convent by the Resistance...
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White Witch Doctor
Ellen Burton arrives in Africa to join Dr. Mary as her nurse, bringing modern medicine to the native...
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The Miracle
A novice leaves a Spanish convent to follow a 19th-century British soldier she loves....
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A Hundred-Odd Years from Now
An advertising film with a difference: Into a strange computerised future where women “run things” b...
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Wonderful Life
Cliff Richard and The Shadows are hired to star in a movie shot amid the lush tropical scenery of th...
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Ten Thousand Bedrooms
In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young I...
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A Very Special Favor
The long-lost father of a frigid, uptight Freudian psychologist contracts a wealthy American playboy...
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Twenty-Four Hours to Kill
When a jet airliner with engine trouble lands in Beirut for a twenty-four hour stopover, purser 'Jon...
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Congress of Love
Vienna 1965. While visiting the Wax Museum a group of tourists stop in front of the figure of Prince...
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Heidi
Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland. In order to g...
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Spy Hunt
Roger Quain, escorting two zoo-bound black panthers on the train from Milan to Paris, is unaware th...
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The Caper of the Golden Bulls
Peter Churchman stopped robbing banks a long time ago and is now living as a wealthy and respected c...
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Confidentially Connie
Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife ...
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Addio giovinezza!
The movie is about a student in Turin during the 1920s (moved up from the earlier versions) and his ...
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Sodom and Gomorrah
Exposed to bad influences since childhood, Mary, a young girl is pushed by her mother to approach an...
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The Mysterious House of Dr. C.
The Mysterious House of Dr. C. (1976) is a rarely seen, reworked version of the 1966 Dr. Coppelius, ...
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Salome, Where She Danced
During the Austrian-Prussian war, Anna Marie is a dancer who is forced to flee her country after she...
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them...
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Pinocchio
Pinocchio is a 1957 TV musical broadcast shown live on NBC, directed and choreographed by Hanya Holm...
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The Right to Live
The story of a mother who, due to extreme poverty and unemployment, is forced to give up her child t...
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A Cry of Angels
Hallmark presents the story of how the greatest oratorio, George Frederic Handel's "The Messiah," ca...
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The Legend of Robin Hood
Musical version of Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men. Songs by Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen in...
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