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Szőke Szakáll (2 February 1883 – 12 February 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 caused studio head Jack Warner to bestow on Sakall the nickname "Cuddles". Warner asked that he be billed as S.Z. "Cuddles" Sakall in his later films, though he was never happy with the name. He became well known for using the phrase "everything is hunky dunky." ==Early life and career== Szőke Szakáll was born Gerő Jenő in Budapest, Hungary, to a Jewish family. During his schooldays, he wrote sketches for Budapest vaudeville shows under the pen-name Szőke 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. The actor became a star of the Hungarian stage and screen in the 1910s and 1920s. At the beginning of the 1920s, he moved to Vienna, where he appeared in Hermann Leopoldi's ''Kabarett Leopoldi-Wiesenthal''. In the 1930s, he was, next to Hans Moser, the most significant representative of the ''Wiener Film'', the Viennese light romantic comedy genre. He also appeared in Berlin. He appeared in ''Familientag im Hause Prellstein'' (1927), ''Ihre Majestät die Liebe'' (1929, which was remade in Hollywood as ''Her Majesty Love'', with W.C. Fields in Sakall's role) and ''Two Hearts in Waltz Time'' (1930). For a brief period during this time, he ran his own production company. 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. When Hungary joined the Axis in 1940, he headed for Hollywood with his wife. 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「S. Z. Sakall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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