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Walter Slezak (German pronunciation: [ˌvaltɐ ˈslɛzak]; 3 May 1902 – 21 April 1983) was an Austrian-born film and stage actor active between 1922 and 1976.He mainly appeared in German films before migrating to the United States in 1930 and performing in numerous Hollywood productions.
Slezak was born in Hollywood, California, of Czech, Austrian, German-Jewish and Dutch descent, the daughter of Tony Award-winning Austrian actor Walter Slezak and Johanna "Kaasi" Van Rijn, and the granddaughter of opera tenor Leo Slezak. [1] [2] Her godmother was Alma Mahler-Werfel. She was born two months after her grandfather died.
Directed by Logan and choreographed by Helen Tamiris, the original cast included Florence Henderson as Fanny, Ezio Pinza as Cesar, William Tabbert as Marius, and Walter Slezak as Panisse. Scenic and lighting design were by Jo Mielziner. Slezak won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical.
Emil and the Detectives is a 1964 American crime comedy film directed by Peter Tewksbury based on the novel Emil and the Detectives by German author Erich Kästner.The film stars Walter Slezak and Bryan Russell.
Slezak is a Czech, Slovak and Polish surname, which originally meant a person from Silesia, derived from the Czech word slezsko. [1] Variants of the name include Ślązak, Slezák, Ślęzak, Slenzak, Szlezák, and Szlazak. The name may refer to: Dalibor Slezák (born 1970), Czech football player; Erika Slezak (born 1946), American actress
Walter Slezak and Jayne Meadows played Elliott and Nell, and the director was Jerome Chodorov. [ 1 ] Brooks Atkinson in the New York Times claimed it was "as real as a TV crime play and a thousand times more diverting," [ 2 ] though fellow critic Robert Coleman maintained that "There were times when a good gust of wind might have blown The ...
Slezak's final film role was as a portly sultan in the 1943 UFA prestige production Münchhausen. His son, Walter Slezak, who started off in musical theater, became a successful character actor in Hollywood during the 1940s. His granddaughter (Walter's daughter) is the actress Erika Slezak, noted for her role on the soap opera One Life to Live ...
The Spanish Main is a 1945 American adventure film starring Paul Henreid, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak and Binnie Barnes, and directed by Frank Borzage. [4] [5] It was RKO's first all-Technicolor film since Becky Sharp ten years before.