Walter Slezak
| Sign | Taurus |
| Born | May 3, 1902 Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria] |
| Died | Apr 21, 1983 Flower Hill, NY |
| Age | Died at 81 |
Walter Slezak | |
| Job | Actor |
| Years active | 1922-1980 |
| Top Roles | Willy, Yakov, Don Pedro Vargas, Stossel, Huysman |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Adventure, Thriller/Suspense, Musical |
| Top Topics | Romance (Comic), Pirate, World War II |
| Top Collaborators | Frank Borzage (Director), Bess Flowers, Sam Harris, Stuart Holmes |
| Shares birthday with | Bing Crosby, Mary Astor, Beulah Bondi see more.. |
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 .
MINI BIO:
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.
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Walter Slezak Quotes:
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.
Emir: What a clothead! I doubt if he knows anything.
Melik: Sufficient my posturing peafowl, to addle your thick pate.
Emir: A maggot dreaming of power.
Melik: From a thousand tiny islands, all of a contour, can you select the exact isle? Where is it - East, West, North, South? As close as you think or as far as you suppose? No, you'll never find the isle of Dariabar without the benevolence of Prince Ahmed and myself.
Yakov: May I become a wandering gypsy if I'm not telling the truth.
Georgi: But you ARE a wandering gypsy.
Yakov: That proves I'm telling the truth.
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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.
Emir: What a clothead! I doubt if he knows anything.
Melik: Sufficient my posturing peafowl, to addle your thick pate.
Emir: A maggot dreaming of power.
Melik: From a thousand tiny islands, all of a contour, can you select the exact isle? Where is it - East, West, North, South? As close as you think or as far as you suppose? No, you'll never find the isle of Dariabar without the benevolence of Prince Ahmed and myself.
Yakov: May I become a wandering gypsy if I'm not telling the truth.
Georgi: But you ARE a wandering gypsy.
Yakov: That proves I'm telling the truth.
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