
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1883-02-01
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 Wikipedia article S. Z. Sakall, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known For

Casablanca
as Carl

Ball of Fire
as Prof. Magenbruch

Yankee Doodle Dandy
as Schwab

Christmas in Connecticut
as Felix Bassenak

The Devil and Miss Jones
as George (Merrick's Butler)

In the Good Old Summertime
as Otto Oberkugen

Wonder Man
as Schmidt

Thank Your Lucky Stars
as Dr. Schlenna

Romance on the High Seas
as Uncle Lazlo Lazlo

Tea for Two
as J. Maxwell Bloomhaus