S.Z. Sakall

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1883-02-01 (72 years old)

Deathday

1955-02-12

Place of Birth

Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Budapest, Hungary]

S.Z. Sakall

Biography

Szőke Szakáll  (February 2, 1883 – February 12, 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." Description above from the...

Acting

1943

Casablanca

as Carl

1942

1949

My Dream Is Yours

as Felix Hofer

1949

1950

Tea for Two

as J. Maxwell Bloomhaus

1945

Christmas in Connecticut

as Felix Bassenak

1930

Susie Cleans Up

as Dr. Fuchs

1932

Ein harmloser Fall

as Herr Werner

1941

Ball of Fire

as Prof. Magenbruch

1951

Lullaby of Broadway

as Adolph Hubbell

1948

Romance on the High Seas

as Uncle Lazlo Lazlo

1946

Never Say Goodbye

as Willie Schmidt

1943

Wintertime

as Hjalmar Ostgaard

1941

The Devil and Miss Jones

as George (Merrick's Butler)

1945

San Antonio

as Sacha Bozic

1954

The Student Prince

as Joseph Ruder

1951

It's a Big Country

as Stefan Szabo

1931

The Squeeker

as Bill "Billy" Anerley, Direktor des "Leopard-Clubs"

1948

Whiplash

as Sam

1942

Broadway

as Nick

1950

Montana

as Papa Otto Schultz

1946

1953

Small Town Girl

as Papa Schlemmer

1940

It's a Date

as Carl Ober

1950

1948

April Showers

as Mr. Curley

1948

1947

Cynthia

as Prof. Rosenkrantz

1933

1940

My Love Came Back

as Geza Peyer

1940

Spring Parade

as Latislav Teschek - the Baker

1940

Florian

as Max

1949

Oh, You Beautiful Doll

as Alfred Breitenbach

1929

Wer wird denn weinen, wenn man auseinandergeht?

as Gottgetreu, Kassierer von Harder & Co.

1946

1941

That Night in Rio

as Arthur Penna

1930

Two Hearts in Waltz Time

as Der Theaterdirektor

1933

Kaiserwalzer

as Leitner - Fabrikant aus Budapest

1933

1933

Frühlingsstimmen

as Krüger, Schuldiener

1931

1931

1933

1944

1931

Waltz Paradise

as Schwartz, Theateragent

1932

I Do Not Want to Know Who You Are

as Ottokar, sein früherer Diener

1931

My Cousin From Warsaw

as Burel, Luciennes Gatte

1945

Wonder Man

as Schmidt

1933

Muß man sich gleich scheiden lassen

as Professor Friedrich Hornung

1932

1926

1932

Girls to Marry

as Alois Novak

1946

Cinderella Jones

as Gabriel Popik

1936

Fräulein Lilli

as Prokurist Seidl

1951

Sugarfoot

as Don Miguel Wormser

1943

Thank Your Lucky Stars

as Dr. Schlenna

1933

Her Majesty Love

as Bela Török

1933

A Woman Like You

as Theobald Roehn, Fabrikant

1930

Twice Wedding

as Grafenbergs Schwager

1931

The Carnival Fairy

as Matthias, Diener

1931

Headlong into happiness

as Baron Monteuil

1945

The Dolly Sisters

as Uncle Latsie Dolly

1933

Pardon, tévedtem

as Mr. Strangel

1927

Heaven on Earth

as Geschäftsführer

1929

Pavement Butterfly

as Paul Bennet

1933

Eine Stadt steht kopf

as Der Bürgermeister

1933

1931

The Unknown Guest

as Leopold Kuhlmann

1928

Mary Lou

as Der Jongleur

1930

The Jumping Jack

as Eickmeyer

1937

1935

Affairs of Maupassant

as Dr. Walitzky

1928

1937

Bubi

as Moller

1933

Tokajerglut

as Schmidt, Pressephotograph

1934

Ende schlecht, alles gut

as Anton Polgar, Papierhändler

1935

Four and a Half Musketeers

as Sattler, Schlagzeuger

1942

Seven Sweethearts

as Mr. Van Maaster, the Father

1931

The Soaring Maiden

as Onkel Lampe

1933

Az ellopott szerda

as Schmidz fotóriporter

1932

Es wird geheiratet

as Mr. Winter

1927

Make Up

as Theaterdirektor

Production

1927

Hallo Caesar!

as Writer

1932

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