生于纽约市，其父为电影明星道格拉斯·范朋克。9岁时随离婚的母亲生活，直到14岁。1923年首登银幕，出演《史蒂芬失足记》。小费尔班克斯靠自己的努力在电影打拼，出演各类角色，甚至群众演员。1928年与琼·克劳馥结婚。除了电影表演外，他在英、美两国的社交和政治关系上更负盛名，二战时期作为美国海军上尉军官，曾参加过一些英美联合军事行动，曾获得多枚英国勋章，1949年被封为爵士。次年退出电影界，定居伦敦。60年代参加电视片集《道格拉斯·范朋克》的演出。之后和第二任妻子定居佛罗里达州的棕榈滩。2000年5月去世。
生于都柏林附近米尔沃尔。容貌秀美，有一头火红的头发。在40和50年代好莱坞的许多影片中担任主角。曾在都柏林的艾比戏剧学校受训。 童年时演出广播节目，后在艾比剧团饰演天真的姑娘。1938年在伦敦初登影坛。翌年，接受合伙者E。默和C。劳顿聘约，到达好莱坞。在劳顿执导...
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.
生于墨西哥奇瓦瓦市，父亲是爱尔兰人，母亲是墨西哥人，少年时代移居美国，青年时任拳师维生。1936年入电影界，50年代以《萨巴达万岁》和《梵谷传》分获第25、29届奥斯卡最男配角金像奖，1964年以《希腊人左巴》获奥斯卡最男主角金像奖提名，这亦是他电影生涯顶峰。1972年出了自传《最初的...
