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 | Etienne, Restaurant Proprietor, Yakov, Don Pedro Vargas, Melik, Prof. Barker |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Adventure, Thriller/Suspense, Musical |
| Top Topics | Romance (Comic), Pirate, World War II |
| Top Collaborators | Frank Borzage (Director), Byron Foulger, Nestor Paiva, Steven Geray |
| 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:
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.
Don Juan Alvarado: All I ever hear from you is that every golden minute has 60 golden seconds. Why does it have to have 60 golden seconds? Why can't it have 30 golden seconds? And why do they have to be golden? Why can't they be silver?
Pillery Gow: Oh, let's hang him from the yardarm!
Paree: Bring him head-out on fire!
Pillery Gow: No, no, we got to do this properly. Step by step, limb from limb.
Contessa Francesca: Can't you let him live somehow? Find a way for him to do some useful work?
Don Juan Alvarado: Work? No, Contessa, yours is the cruelest of all suggestions.
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Georgi: But you ARE a wandering gypsy.
Yakov: That proves I'm telling the truth.
Don Juan Alvarado: All I ever hear from you is that every golden minute has 60 golden seconds. Why does it have to have 60 golden seconds? Why can't it have 30 golden seconds? And why do they have to be golden? Why can't they be silver?
Pillery Gow: Oh, let's hang him from the yardarm!
Paree: Bring him head-out on fire!
Pillery Gow: No, no, we got to do this properly. Step by step, limb from limb.
Contessa Francesca: Can't you let him live somehow? Find a way for him to do some useful work?
Don Juan Alvarado: Work? No, Contessa, yours is the cruelest of all suggestions.
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