Tall, lean and topped with a crown of snow-white hair, Boston’s own John Slattery has – on stage, television and in films – managed a spectacular career playing smart, commanding and occasionally devious men.

In Friday’s “Nuremberg,” a historical look back at the final reckoning for the defeated, monstrous Nazi leaders, executed for their “crimes against humanity,” Slattery, 63, is one of the key, if little known today, players: Burton C. Andrus.

While Adolf Hitler and new wife Eva Braun, Joseph Goebbels, his wife and their six children and Heinrich Himmler committed suicide, it was decided that the captured Nazis would be tried by the Allies – France Germany, Russia and the US – in a world court whose daily proceedings in 1946 reverberated around the world.

“Nuremberg” shows how compli

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