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S. Z. Sakall

1883 - 1955

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Szőke Szakáll (born Jakab Grünwald, other names: Gärtner Sándor and Gerő Jenő; February 2, 1883 – February 12, 1955), known in the English-speaking world as S. Z. Sakall, was a Hungarian-American stage and film character actor. He appeared in many films, including Casablanca (1942), in which he played Carl, the head waiter; Christmas in Connecticut (1945); In the Good Old Summertime (1949); and Lullaby of Broadway (1951). Sakall played numerous supporting roles in Hollywood musicals and comedies in the 1940s and 1950s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of S. Z. Sakall has received more than 588,193 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. S. Z. Sakall is the 6,990th most popular actor (down from 6,370th in 2019), the 752nd most popular biography from Hungary (down from 636th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Hungarian Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 590k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of S. Z. Sakalls by language

Over the past year S. Z. Sakall has had the most page views in the with 83,055 views, followed by Hungarian (4,983), and German (2,597). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Afrikaans (57.84%), Danish (46.56%), and Egyptian Arabic (20.10%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, S. Z. Sakall ranks 6,990 out of 13,578. Before him are Manuela Velasco, Aya Hisakawa, Malachi Throne, Katarzyna Figura, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Roger Smith. After him are Marie Gillain, Jeanie MacPherson, Gloria DeHaven, Dave Franco, Hwang In-youp, and Sonu Sood.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, S. Z. Sakall ranks 261. Before him are Henry Robertson Bowers, Geraldine Beamish, Aurelio Mosquera, Max Horton, C. I. Lewis, and Edna May Oliver. After him are Albert Oldman, C. Henry Gordon, Cyril Burt, Lesley Ashburner, Francis X. Bushman, and Nathaniel Cartmell. Among people deceased in 1955, S. Z. Sakall ranks 162. Before him are Nick Winter, John Hodiak, Rukhmabai, John Fenning, David Carstens, and James Jones. After him are Harold Walden, Pentti Haanpää, Jack McGrath, Mary McLeod Bethune, Einar Arnórsson, and Robert Riskin.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, S. Z. Sakall ranks 752 out of 1,077. Before him are Paula Marosi (1936), Róbert Antal (1921), Kálmán Markovits (1931), Péter Marót (1945), István Barta (1895), and Zoltán Magyar (1953). After him are Magda Gabor (1915), Imre Gedővári (1951), Dániel Magay (1932), Éva Janikovszky (1926), György Mitró (1930), and Samu Fóti (1890).

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Among ACTORS In Hungary

Among actors born in Hungary, S. Z. Sakall ranks 25. Before him are María Corda (1898), Géza von Bolváry (1897), Eva Henger (1972), Hilda Gobbi (1913), Franciska Gaal (1903), and Violetta Ferrari (1930). After him are Magda Gabor (1915), Zoltán Várkonyi (1912), Erika Marozsán (1972), Ilona Massey (1910), Marina Aleksandrova (1982), and Géza Röhrig (1967).

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Television and Movie Roles

Ball of Fire
Prof. Magenbruch
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.
Dec 2o 19417.354 / 10
Christmas in Connecticut
Felix Bassenak
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.
Jul 27o 19457.008 / 10
Casablanca
Carl
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Jan 15o 19438.2 / 10