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S.Z. Sakall
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Actor Born: February 2, 1883 in Budapest, Hungary Death: February 12, 1955 in Hollywood, CA Biography:Chubby-jowled Hungarian character actor "S.Z. Sakall" began as a sketch writer for Budapest vaudeville shows, then turned to acting at age 18. Initially billed as Szoeko Szakall (the name translated to "blonde beard," in honor of the hirsute adornment he'd grown to appear older), the actor became a star of the Hungarian stage and screen in the 1910s and 1920s. Among his German-language films of the early-talkie era were 1929's "Ihre Majestaet die Liebe" (remade in the U.S. as "Her Majesty Love", with "W.C. Fields" in Sakall's role) and the box-office hit "Two Hearts in Waltz Time" (1930); he also briefly ran his own production company during this period. Fleeing Hitler in the late '30s, Sakall settled in Hollywood, where from 1939 through 1955 he played an endless succession of excitable theatrical impresarios, lovable European uncles, and befuddled shopkeepers. His rotund cuteness earned Sakall the... Full Biography
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