Walter Slezak Overview:

Character actor, Walter Slezak, was born on May 3, 1902 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. Slezak died at the age of 81 on Apr 21, 1983 in Flower Hill, NY .

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Tubby, mustachioed Walter Slezak was an Austrian actor just as likely to play affable or menacing characters. A welcome part of any film, he was probably most memorable as the German on Hitchcock's Lifeboat. He had two bursts of intense film activity, in Germany from 1924 to 1928 and in Hollywood from 1942 to 1954, having been in America since the early 1930s. Otherwise he appeared mostly on stage. He was also a writer and humorist. He retired in 1972, but in 1983 committed suicide by shooting himself.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Illustrated Dictionary of Film Character Actors).

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Walter Slezak Quotes:

Don Juan Alvarado: My dear child, there is no reason why we shouldn't be married tomorrow.
Contessa Francesca: Tomorrow, your excellency?
Don Juan Alvarado: Well, yesterday, unfortunately, is impossible.


Don Juan Alvarado: I promised you 10,000 pieces of eight.
Mario Du Billar: 50,000 was the sum you mentioned, your excellency.
Don Juan Alvarado: 50 was the sum I mentioned, but 10,000 was what I had in mind.


Robert L. Talbot: [looking at his villa] Isn't that a new color?
Maurice Clavell: I beg your pardon?
Robert L. Talbot: I said, isn't that a new color?
Maurice Clavell: [chuckles] Houses are like women; The older they get, the more paint they need.


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Won Broadway's 1955 Tony Award as Best Actor (Musical) for "Fanny."

Grandfather of actress Amanda Davies and actor Tobias Slezak.

Father-in-law of actor Brian Davies.

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