He is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Calif. Sakall was a veteran of German, Hungarian and British films when he left Europe because of the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement. Sakall. When Hungary joined the Axis in 1940, he left for Hollywood with his wife. Today, I'm looking at the life and career of the beloved old Hollywood character actor S.Z. During his schooldays, he wrote sketches for Budapest vaudeville shows under the pen name Szoke Szakáll meaning "blond 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. Sakall’ is widely recognized for his brilliant performances in the movies like ‘In the Good Old Summertime’, ‘Lullaby of Broadway’, ‘Casablanca’ and ‘Christmas in Connecticut’. Sakall was a veteran of German, Hungarian and British films when he left Europe because of the rise of He originally turned down his waiter's role in Sakall finally agreed to take the role provided they gave him four weeks of work. surprise!). When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Sakall was forced to return to Hungary. He was involved in over 40 movies in his native land. "Cuddles" Sakall was the white-haired, cherubic actor best known as Carl, the headwaiter and bookkeeper for Humphrey Bogart in the 1942 film Casablanca.S.Z. He served on the East front line during World War I, after that he launched his career as an actor and comedian at different theaters.

One of the best is Romance on the High Seas, which just happens to be Doris Day's screen debut. S.Z. First Sakall played Felix Hofer in Doris Day's second film, My Dream Is Yours.

He became soon well-known abroad because of his successes and he first went to Vienna, afterwards to Berlin where he was equally successful as writer and comedian. Sakall's "Cuddles" persona (he hated that nickname) was more suited to lighter fare, and he appeared in several musicals during the last years of his career.

Sakall always enjoyed performing, and he began writing comedy sketches when he was still a teenager under the pen name, Szoke Szakall, which means blond beard in Hungarian.

His variations on a discombobulated theme, often tinged with sly wit, charmed American audiences from the early '40s through the mid-'50s,… S.Z. S.Z.Sakall was born in Hungary and began writing and acting in vaudeville shows in Budapest in his teens, taking the stage name of Szöke Szakáll (or “blonde beard”).As a young man he was a star in theater and the movies in Hungary, Germany and Vienna, but in 1939 (being Jewish) he escaped to America as World War II began. Many of Sakall's close relatives were later murdered in Nazi concentration camps, including all three of his sisters and a niece, as well as his wife's brother and sister. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed ), memorial page for S.Z. Many of Sakall's close relatives later died in Nazi concentration camps, including all three of his sisters and his niece, as well as his wife's brother and sister. His first wife Giza Grossner died in 1918, two years later he married Anne Kardos.

Often plays men who are easily excited or befuddled but loveable nonetheless S.Z. Sakall and his wife were Jewish, and, sadly, most of their other family perished in the Holocaust.

All three of his sisters perished in Nazi concentration camps.

Sakall was a veteran of German, Hungarian and British films when he left Europe because of the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement. Sakall was born in Hungary and began writing and acting in vaudeville shows in Budapest in his teens, taking the stage name of Szöke Szakáll (or "blonde beard"). At the age of 59, he portrayed his best remembered character, Carl the head waiter in Casablanca (1942). He became well known for using the phrase "everything is hunky dunky". He came to the film through Paul Davidson. Sakall left Europe in 1940 after the Nazi regime's rise to power. He is buried in the Garden of Memory in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. With his assortment of lovable supporting roles — befuddled yet helpful uncles and friends, slightly curmudgeonly shop owners, eccentric producers — S.Z. Eventually, he moved to Vienna where he became a major star in Wiener Film, an Austrian genre that featured a unique blend of melodrama and comedy in an historical setting. After World War I, he went to Vienna to study acting under Max Reinhardt.
Sakall left Europe in 1940 after the Nazi regime's rise to power.
He appeared on stage in both Germany and Austria and was featured in the first German sound film, "Zwei Herzen im Dreiviertel-Takt". Later that year, he supported June Haver and Ray Bolger in Look for the Silver Lining. Hungarian-born S.Z.

This was a remake of Ernst Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner (1940). In the 1930s, he was, next to Hans Moser, the most significant representative of the Wiener Film, the Viennese light romantic comedy genre.