Acting

S.Z. Sakall

Born February 2, 1883 · Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Budapest, Hungary]

Died February 12, 1955 · aged 72

Szőke Szakáll, 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 "C…

Known For

Casablanca

Casablanca · 1943

MovieDramaRomance

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Room for the Aged

Room for the Aged · 1934

Room for the Aged

Mr. Polgár is a provincial paper dealer. His sons, Viktor and Feri, are managers in a big factory in the capital, spending their money lavishly, living their lives in a careless, irresponsible way. Viktor is to marry a baroness and feels rather too uneasy about his father's small business. He persuades his old man into selling the business he had so long cherished and to move to their place in Pest.

Frühlingsstimmen

Frühlingsstimmen · 1933

Frühlingsstimmen

Ball of Fire

Ball of Fire · 1941

MovieComedyRomance

A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Yankee Doodle Dandy · 1942

Yankee Doodle Dandy

MovieDramaMusic

A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.

Miss Lilli

Miss Lilli · 1936

Lilli, daughter of a large family, finds job at a jewelry shop, and is taken to Montecarlo by her boss to, under a false identity, make the jewels appeal to rich customers.Only they are stolen,seemingly by the young man she has fallen for..

Romance on the High Seas

Romance on the High Seas · 1948

Romance on the High Seas

MovieComedyRomance

Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.

Christmas in Connecticut

Christmas in Connecticut · 1945

Christmas in Connecticut

MovieComedyRomance

While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth's bucolic Connecticut farm with her husband and child. But the column is a sham, so Elizabeth and her editor, Dudley Beecham, in fear of losing their jobs, hasten to set up the single, childless and entirely nondomestic Elizabeth on a country farm.

Filmography

Sort

Casablanca

Casablanca · 1943

MovieDramaRomance

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Carl

Room for the Aged

Room for the Aged · 1934

Room for the Aged

Mr. Polgár is a provincial paper dealer. His sons, Viktor and Feri, are managers in a big factory in the capital, spending their money lavishly, living their lives in a careless, irresponsible way. Viktor is to marry a baroness and feels rather too uneasy about his father's small business. He persuades his old man into selling the business he had so long cherished and to move to their place in Pest.

Frühlingsstimmen

Frühlingsstimmen · 1933

Frühlingsstimmen

Krüger, Schuldiener

Ball of Fire

Ball of Fire · 1941

MovieComedyRomance

A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.

Prof. Magenbruch

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Yankee Doodle Dandy · 1942

Yankee Doodle Dandy

MovieDramaMusic

A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.

Schwab

Miss Lilli

Miss Lilli · 1936

Lilli, daughter of a large family, finds job at a jewelry shop, and is taken to Montecarlo by her boss to, under a false identity, make the jewels appeal to rich customers.Only they are stolen,seemingly by the young man she has fallen for..

Prokurist Seidl

Romance on the High Seas

Romance on the High Seas · 1948

Romance on the High Seas

MovieComedyRomance

Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.

Uncle Lazlo Lazlo

Christmas in Connecticut

Christmas in Connecticut · 1945

Christmas in Connecticut

MovieComedyRomance

While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth's bucolic Connecticut farm with her husband and child. But the column is a sham, so Elizabeth and her editor, Dudley Beecham, in fear of losing their jobs, hasten to set up the single, childless and entirely nondomestic Elizabeth on a country farm.

Felix Bassenak

Montana

Montana · 1950

MovieWesternAction

An Australian sheep man comes to Montana looking for grazing space, is opposed by local ranchers and a wealthy cattle-woman.

Papa Otto Schultz

Countess Mariza

Countess Mariza · 1932

Countess Mariza

MovieMusicRomance

When Gräfin Mariza visits her country estate it is certainly an event. She gives a party to celebrate her engagement to a certain Koloman Zsupan, who unexpectedly shows up. Her authoritarian ways collide with Török, her manager. Based on Emerich Kálmán operetta.

Lampe

Muß man sich gleich scheiden lassen

Muß man sich gleich scheiden lassen · 1933

Muß man sich gleich scheiden lassen

Professor Friedrich Hornung

In the Good Old Summertime

In the Good Old Summertime · 1949

In the Good Old Summertime

MovieComedyMusic

Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.

Otto Oberkugen

The Devil and Miss Jones

The Devil and Miss Jones · 1941

The Devil and Miss Jones

MovieComedyRomance

The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley's Department Store. There is labor unrest at the store, and the employees' anger is directed at him, who they hang in effigy outside the store despite not knowing what he looks like. Merrick, not happy at what he sees going on, decides to mete out the rabble-rousers. So he goes undercover as a sales clerk in the shoe department.

George (Merrick's Butler)

The Merry Farmer

The Merry Farmer · 1927

The Merry Farmer

MovieDramaComedy

The Merry Farmer is based on the 1907 operetta of the same name.

The Carnival Fairy

The Carnival Fairy · 1931

The Carnival Fairy

Film version of the operetta by Emmerich Kalman. Victor has won 10 000 Mark with his ceiling painting. In the local pub, he celebrates his triumph. Countess Alexandra happens to drop into the pub too, and is thought to be a model by the sponsor of the prize, Count Meredith. Victor soon has to save her from an embarassing misunderstanding. The two men insult each other and Victor loses his prize.

Matthias, Diener

Wonder Man

Wonder Man · 1945

MovieComedyFantasy

Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Buzzy comes back as a ghost and summons his bookworm twin, Edwin Dingle, to Prospect Park so that he can help the police nail Jackson.

Schmidt

Hello Caesar!

Hello Caesar! · 1927

Juggler and con-artist Caesar comes to Karlsbad, where he hopes to trick the renowned Vaudeville manager Willard into taking him to America. But when he actually meets Willard, Caesar mistakes him for a certain Mr. Lehmann. Willard / Lehmann is not amused, since Caesar constantly courts his daughter Eva. While fooling around, Caesar doesn’t notice that young Rosl, the daughter of innkeeper Mrs. Svoboda, has fallen in love with him. Finally, the romantic and comical confusion is resolved during a hotel fire.

Writer

Never Say Goodbye

Never Say Goodbye · 1946

Never Say Goodbye

Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together. Flip starts a correspondence with a Marine, sending a picture of her beautiful mother as the author of Flip's flirtatious letters. When the Marine shows up to meet his pen pal, Ellen takes the opportunity to make her ex-husband jealous.

Willie Schmidt

Thank Your Lucky Stars

Thank Your Lucky Stars · 1943

Thank Your Lucky Stars

MovieComedyMusic

An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.

Dr. Schlenna

San Antonio

San Antonio · 1945

Rancher Clay Hardin arrives in San Antonio to search for and capture Roy Stuart, notorious leader of a gang of cattle rustlers. The vicious outlaw is indeed in the Texan town, intent on winning the affections of a beautiful chanteuse named Jeanne Starr. When the lovely lady meets and falls in love with the charismatic Hardin, the stakes for both men become higher.

Sacha Bozic

Tokajerglut

Tokajerglut · 1933

Schmidt, Pressephotograph

The Jumping Jack

The Jumping Jack · 1930

The Jumping Jack

Herr Eickmeyer is a wealthy parfumier: well past middle age, and stout with it. His blonde wife Lissy is much younger, pretty and vivacious. Since Eickmeyer can't keep up with his young wife, he commissions a companion for her in the form of a life-sized talking clockwork man, purchased for 5,000 deutschemarks ... to be shipped to his home immediately it's assembled.

Eickmeyer

My Dream Is Yours

My Dream Is Yours · 1949

My Dream Is Yours

MovieComedyMusic

Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace him. In New York, he finds Martha Gibson, a single mother with a great voice. He arranges for her to move to Hollywood, but then has a problem trying to sell her to the show's sponsor. Doug tries every trick he can think of to make Martha a star, and as the two work more closely, he falls in love with her. Complicating matters further, Martha meets and becomes attracted to Garry.

Felix Hofer

Small Town Girl

Small Town Girl · 1953

Small Town Girl

MovieMusicRomance

Rick Belrow Livingston, in love with Broadway star Lisa, is sentenced to 30 days in jail for speeding through a small town. He persuades the judge's daughter Cindy to let him leave for one night, so that he can visit Lisa on her birthday. After that he goes on the town with Cindy and she falls in love with him. But Dr. Schemmer wants his son to become her husband.

Papa Schlemmer