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Szőke Szakáll, known in the English speaking world as S. Z. Sakall, was a Hungarian stage and film character actor. He appeared in many films including Christmas in Connecticut (1945), In the Good Old Summertime (1949), Lullaby of Broadway (1951), and Casablanca (1942), 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 caused studio head Jack Warner to bestow on Sakall the nickname "Cuddles".
Birth Name
Sándor Gärtner
Born
Friday, 02 February 1883
Died
Saturday, 12 February 1955
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| I Am Not Your Negro | Adolph Hubbell (clip from Lullaby of Broadway (1951)) | 2016 |
| Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood | Self | 2009 |
| Hollywood and the Stars | Self | 1963 |
| The Student Prince | Joseph Ruder | 1954 |
| Small Town Girl | Papa Schlemmer / Eric Schlemmer | 1953 |
| The Ford Television Theatre | Mr. Toby | 1952 |
| It's a Big Country: An American Anthology | Stefan Szabo | 1951 |
| Painting the Clouds with Sunshine | Uncle Felix / Felix Hoff | 1951 |
| Lullaby of Broadway | Adolph Hubbell | 1951 |
| The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story | (archive footage) | 1951 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| I Am Not Your Negro | Adolph Hubbell (clip from Lullaby of Broadway (1951)) | 2016 |
| Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood | Self | 2009 |
| Hollywood and the Stars | Self | 1963 |
| The Student Prince | Joseph Ruder | 1954 |
| Small Town Girl | Papa Schlemmer / Eric Schlemmer | 1953 |
| The Ford Television Theatre | Mr. Toby | 1952 |
| It's a Big Country: An American Anthology | Stefan Szabo | 1951 |
| Painting the Clouds with Sunshine | Uncle Felix / Felix Hoff | 1951 |
| Lullaby of Broadway | Adolph Hubbell | 1951 |
| The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story | (archive footage) | 1951 |
| Sugarfoot | Don Miguel Wormser | 1951 |
| Tea for Two | J. Maxwell Bloomhaus | 1950 |
| The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady | Miklos Teretzky / Miklos 'Mike' Teretzky (as Cuddles Sakall) | 1950 |
| Montana | Papa Otto Schultz | 1950 |
| Oh, You Beautiful Doll | Fred Fisher aka Alfred Breitenbach / Alfred Breitenbach | 1949 |
| In the Good Old Summertime | Otto Oberkugen | 1949 |
| Look for the Silver Lining | Shendorf / Shendorff | 1949 |
| My Dream Is Yours | Felix Hofer | 1949 |
| Whiplash | Sam | 1948 |
| Embraceable You | Sammy | 1948 |
| Romance on the High Seas | Uncle Lazlo Lazlo | 1948 |
| April Showers | Mr. Curley | 1948 |
| Cynthia | Prof. Rosenkrantz | 1947 |
| The Time, the Place and the Girl | Ladislaus Cassel | 1946 |
| Never Say Goodbye | Luigi / Willie Schmidt | 1946 |
| Two Guys from Milwaukee | Count Oswald | 1946 |
| Cinderella Jones | Gabriel Popik | 1946 |
| San Antonio | Sacha Bozic | 1945 |
| The Dolly Sisters | Uncle Latsie Dolly | 1945 |
| Christmas in Connecticut | Felix Bassenak | 1945 |
| Wonder Man | Schmidt | 1945 |
| Hollywood Canteen | S.Z. Sakall / Self | 1944 |
| Shine on Harvest Moon | Poppa Carl | 1944 |
| Thank Your Lucky Stars | Dr. Schlenna | 1943 |
| Wintertime | Hjalmar Ostgaard | 1943 |
| Casablanca | Carl | 1943 |
| Seven Sweethearts | Mr. Van Maaster, the Father / Mr. Van Maaster - the Father | 1942 |
| Yankee Doodle Dandy | Schwab | 1942 |
| Broadway | Nick | 1942 |
| Ball of Fire | Prof. Magenbruch | 1942 |
| The Devil and Miss Jones | George / George (Merrick's Butler) | 1941 |
| That Night in Rio | Arthur Penna | 1941 |
| The Man Who Lost Himself | Paul | 1941 |
| Spring Parade | Latislav Teschek - the Baker | 1940 |
| My Love Came Back | Geza Peyer | 1940 |
| Florian | Max | 1940 |
| It's a Date | Karl Ober | 1940 |
| Bubi | Moller | 1937 |
| The Lilac Domino | Sandor | 1937 |
| Fräulein Lilli | Prokurist Seidl | 1936 |
| Affairs of Maupassant | Dr. Walitzky | 1935 |
| Ende schlecht, alles gut | Anton Polgar, Stationery Shop Owner / Anton Polgar, Papierhändler | 1934 |
| Room for the Aged | Polgár papírkereskedõ | 1934 |
| Everything for the Woman | (segment A pampák királya) | 1934 |
| Wenn du jung bist, gehört dir die Welt | Beppo | 1934 |
| Stolen Wednesday | Schmidz,fotóriporter | 1933 |
| Romance in Budapest | Stangl | 1933 |
| Abenteuer am Lido | Michael | 1933 |
| Großfürstin Alexandra | Dimitri | 1933 |
| Glück über Nacht | Haase | 1933 |
| Muß man sich gleich scheiden lassen | Professor Friedrich Hornung | 1933 |
| Es war einmal ein Musikus | Häberlein | 1933 |
| The Town Stands on Its Head | Bürgermeister | 1933 |
| Pardon, Tevedtem! | Strangel úr, Murray menedzsere / Mr. Strangel | 1933 |
| Countess Mariza | Lampe | 1932 |
| I Do Not Want to Know Who You Are | Ottokar / Ottokar, sein früherer Diener | 1932 |
| Right to Happiness | Bernhard | 1932 |
| Mädchen zum Heiraten | Alois Novak | 1932 |
| My Cousin from Warsaw | Burel, Luciennes Gatte | 1931 |
| The Squeeker | Bill "Billy" Anerley | 1931 |
| Ich heirate meinen Mann | Adolphe | 1931 |
| Walzerparadies | Schwartz, Theateragent | 1931 |
| Ihr Junge | (as Szöke Szakall) | 1931 |
| Die Faschingsfee | Matthias, Diener | 1931 |
| Kopfüber ins Glück | Baron Monteuil | 1931 |
| Her Majesty Love | Bela Török / Lias Vater | 1931 |
| Susanne macht Ordnung | Dr. Fuchs, juristischer Berater | 1930 |
| Rendezvous | Crepin | 1930 |
| Zwei Herzen im Dreiviertel-Takt | Der Theaterdirektor | 1930 |
| Why Cry at Parting? | Gottgetreu, Kassierer von Harder & Co. | 1929 |
| City Butterfly | Paul Bennet - Maler | 1929 |
| Whirl of Youth | Sam, ein Artist / Sam | 1928 |
| Make Up | Theaterdirektor | 1927 |
| The Master of Death | Bordoni | 1927 |
| Wenn das Herz der Jugend spricht | Dr. Hecht | 1926 |
