George Sanders
Biography
George Henry Sanders (3 July 1906 – 25 April 1972) was a British film and television actor, singer-songwriter, music composer, and author. His career as an actor spanned over forty years. His heavy upper-class English accent and smooth bass voice often led him to be cast as sophisticated but villainous characters. He is perhaps best known as Jack Favell in Rebecca (1940), Scott ffolliott in Foreign Correspondent (1940, a rare heroic part), The Saran of Gaza in Samson and Delilah (1949), the most popular film of the year, Addison DeWitt in All About Eve (1950, for which he won an Oscar), Sir Brian De Bois-Guilbert in Ivanhoe (1952), King Richard the Lionheart in King Richard and the Crusaders (1954), Mr. Freeze in a two-parter episode of Batman (1966), the voice of the malevolent man-hating tiger Shere Khan in Disney's The Jungle Book (1967), the suave crimefighter The Falcon during the 1940s (a role eventually bequeathed to his elder brother, Tom Conway), and Simon Templar, The Saint, in five films made in the 1930s and 1940s.
Known For
Jack Favell
Rebecca
Benjamin Ballon
A Shot in the Dark
Addison DeWitt
All About Eve
Celestial Body (uncredited)
Things to Come
Alexander 'Alex' Joyce
Viaggio in Italia
Self (archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Robert Fleming
Lured
Miles Fairley
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Major Quive-Smith
Man Hunt
Gordon Zellaby
Village of the Damned
Ward Andrews
Rage in Heaven
Scott ffolliott
Foreign Correspondent
Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
The Jungle Book
Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert
Ivanhoe
John Evered
The Strange Woman
Williams
Tales of Manhattan
Thomas Ayerton
In Search of the Castaways
Andrew Lippincott
Endless Night
Jaffrey Pyncheon
The House of the Seven Gables
Inspector John Warwick
The Lodger
Dr. Allan Middleton
Hangover Square
Jim Fleg
Quiet Please, Murder
Captain Billy Leech
The Black Swan
Lord James Ashwood
Moonfleet
The Saran of Gaza
Samson and Delilah
Adonijah
Solomon and Sheba
Mark Loving
While the City Sleeps
Sir Masius
Die sieben Männer der Sumuru
Harry Melville Quincey
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
Albert Richter
Witness to Murder
Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
A Date with the Falcon
Captain Swanson
Allegheny Uprising
Sir Arthur Blake
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Capitaine Robert Adams
The Last Voyage
Clementi Sabourin
Death of a Scoundrel
Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence
The Falcon's Brother
Gay Laurence / The Falcon
The Gay Falcon
Gay Lawrence
The Falcon Takes Over
Stuyvesant Nicholl
From the Earth to the Moon
George Lambert
This Land Is Mine
Simon Templar
The Saint's Double Trouble
Warlock
The Kremlin Letter
Lord Henry Wotton
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Cosmo Constantine
Call Me Madam
Gibbs
The Quiller Memorandum
Simon Templar
The Saint Strikes Back
Shadwell
Psychomania
Keith Wilson
Appointment in Berlin
Eric Norvel
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
Gurko Lanen
The Son of Monte Cristo
King Richard I
King Richard and the Crusaders
Fedja Michailovitch Petroff
Summer Storm
Everett Stacy
Lloyd's of London
Mr. Bing
Five Golden Hours
Simon Templar
The Saint Takes Over
J F Noble
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
Charles Strickland
The Moon and Sixpence
Simon Templar
The Saint In Palm Springs
Simon Templar
The Saint in London
Major A.L. Coombes
Sundown
Nicholas Strang
Assignment: Paris
Sir Charles Holland
A Touch of Larceny
Michael Gordon
Action in Arabia
Calvin York
Warning Shot
King Charles II
The King's Thief
Tony Barling
Her Cardboard Lover
Sir Charles Broward
The Rebel
The Banker
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
Baron Von Tranisch
Bitter Sweet
King Charles II
Forever Amber
Raymond Fontaine
L'intrigo
Franz Schlager
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
General Downes
Appuntamento col disonore
Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
Lancer Spy
Gen. Armstrong
The Body Stealers
The Admiral
Doomwatch
Fabius Maximus
Jupiter's Darling
Wyatt Leigh
Four Men and a Prayer
Carliss
The Whole Truth
Georges Duroy
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
Eugéne François Vidocq
A Scandal in Paris
Waldo Lydecker
Laura
Lord Robert Darlington
The Fan
Forrester
Green Hell
The Major
Cairo
Larry Larkin
That Certain Feeling
Lefty
Slave Ship
Victor
Never Say Goodbye
Tim Waddington
The Seventh Sin
Professor Schlieben
Einer spielt falsch
Dr. Jonathan Odell
The Scarlet Coat
Felix Guignol
The Light Touch
Captain Walter Phillips
Caccia ai violenti
A.L.
That Kind of Woman
Henri Landru
Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
Del Forbes
International Settlement
Dr. Andre Marbel
Paris After Dark
Sir Arnold Hobbes
Cone of Silence
Capt. Heinrichs
Nurse Edith Cavell
Sir Francis Leybourne
The Best House in London
Guv'nor
The Cracksman
Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
They Came to Blow Up America
Principe Makowski
F.B.I. operazione Baalbeck
Lisle
Dishonour Bright
Mordicus
Good Times
Mike Alexander
Black Jack
Singer in Public Bar (uncredited)
Love, Life and Laughter
Rene Blanchard
The Lady Escapes
Indifference - a God
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Narrator
Il mondo di notte numero 3
Dr. de Reseke
So This Is London
Az aranyfej
Anton Ragatzy
The Outsider
Count Andre de Guyon
Love Is News
Maj. Hobson
Operation Snatch
Sidney Carter
The Candy Man
Kellermann
Le Rendez-vous
Self
Kort möte med familjen Rossellini
Waldo Lydecker
Laura
Addison DeWitt (archive footage)
Footsteps on the Ceiling
Baron
The Dream
Charles Ferris
The Bitter Waters
Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)
Disney's Greatest Villains
Il mondo di notte
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
124
Gender
Male
Birthday
1906-07-03
Place of Birth
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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