英国演员。罗杰摩尔于二战期间他进入英国军队的情报部门服役,20世纪40年代末才在一些电影里跑龙套,在他做电影临时演员的时候,他收到了皇家戏剧艺术学院的录取通知。20世纪60年代主演电视系列剧《圣徒》走红,并在许多热门的电视剧和节目中出现,1971年代接替肖恩·康纳利在...
Tall, portly Viennese character actor Walter Slezak simultaneously pursued two different careers after his arrival in America in 1930: one, as a star of musical comedy on the stage, and another, as a portrayer of villains, impish rogues or pompous buffoons on screen. Born of a musical family in May 1902, son of famous opera star Leo Slezak, Walter studied medicine but quickly lost interest. For a while, he held a position working in a bank. At the age of twenty, he was spotted in a beer garden by the Hungarian actor/director Mihaly Kertesz (Michael Curtiz) and persuaded to appear in his motion picture Sodom und Gomorrha (1922). Subsequently, the then rather lean Walter Slezak was signed by Ufa and became a matinee idol in German films of the 1920's. Always somewhat too fond of the culinary arts, Slezak over the years put on so much weight that, by the end of the decade, he was no longer considered bankable as a romantic star and became relegated to playing character roles instead.