Walter Slezak (Actor)

Reviews of Walter Slezak Movies

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Movies starring Walter Slezak have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 60%.

Lifeboat - released in 1944 - is Walter Slezak's highest rated movie, with a score of 78% based on 353 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Walter Slezak is Ten Thousand Bedrooms - released in 1957 - with a score of 42% based on 2 reviews.

Actor 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.

Walter Slezak has acted in films with Sam Harris, Bess Flowers, Nestor Paiva and Al Murphy.

Walter Slezak has worked with these film directors: Charles Lamont, Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Wise and Richard Thorpe.