S.Z. Sakall
Gender: Male
Born: 2nd February 1883
Died: 12th February 1955
Nationality: Hungary
Movies: In the Good Old Summertime, The Student Prince, Casablanca, Lullaby of Broadway, Tea for Two, The Devil and Miss Jones, The Time, the Place and the Girl, Montana, That Night in Rio, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Romance on the High Seas, Christmas in Connecticut, Thank Your Lucky Stars, My Dream Is Yours, The Dolly Sisters, San Antonio, Ball of Fire, The Squeaker, Oh, You Beautiful Doll, Cynthia, Never Say Goodbye, Two Guys from Milwaukee, Florian, Seven Sweethearts
Szőke Szakáll (2 February 1883 – 12 February 1955), known as S.Z. Sakall, was a Hungarian film character actor. He was in many films including In the Good Old Summertime, Lullaby of Broadway, Christmas in Connecticut and Casablanca in which he played Carl, the head waiter.
Chubby-jowled Sakall played numerous supporting roles in Hollywood musicals and comedies in the 1940s and 1950s. His rotund cuteness earned Sakall the nickname "Cuddles," and he was often billed as S.Z. "Cuddles" Sakall in his later films, though he was never happy with the name. He was famous for using the phrase "everything is hunky dunky."
Szőke Szakáll was born Gerő Jenő in Budapest, Hungary to a Jewish family. During his schooldays, he was writing sketches for Budapest vaudeville shows under the pen-name Szőke Szakáll ("blonde beard", in reference to his own beard, grown to make him look older), which he affected when at the age of 18 he turned to acting.
The actor became a star of the Hungarian stage and screen in the 1910s and 1920s. At the beginning of the 1920s, he moved to Vienna, where he appeared in Hermann Leopoldi's Kabarett Leopoldi-Wiesenthal. In the 1930s, he was, next to Hans Moser, the most
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