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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
July 3, 1906
Place of Birth:
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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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
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Footsteps on the Ceiling | Addison DeWitt (archive footage) |
| 1996 | Ingrid Bergman Remembered | Self (archive footage) |
| 1986 | Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend | Self (from All About Eve [1950]) (archive footage) |
| 1977 | Disney's Greatest Villains | Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage) |
| 1973 | Psychomania | Shadwell |
| 1972 | Endless Night | Andrew Lippincott |
| 1972 | Doomwatch | The Admiral |
| 1970 | The Kremlin Letter | Warlock |
| 1970 | The Night of the Assassin | General Downes |
| 1969 | The Girl from Rio | Sir Masius |
| 1969 | The Body Stealers | Gen. Armstrong |
| 1969 | The Best House in London | Sir Francis Leybourne |
| 1969 | The Candy Man | Sidney Carter |
| 1968 | Laura | Waldo Lydecker |
| 1968 | One Step to Hell | Captain Walter Phillips |
| 1967 | The Jungle Book | Shere Khan the Tiger (voice) |
| 1967 | Warning Shot | Calvin York |
| 1967 | Good Times | Mordicus |
| 1966 | The Quiller Memorandum | Gibbs |
| 1966 | Trunk to Cairo | Professor Schlieben |
| 1965 | The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders | The Banker |
| 1964 | A Shot in the Dark | Benjamin Ballon |
| 1964 | Dark Purpose | Raymond Fontaine |
| 1964 | F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck | Principe Makowski |
| 1964 | The Golden Head | |
| 1963 | Cairo | The Major |
| 1963 | The Cracksman | Guv'nor |
| 1963 | Ecco | Narrator |
| 1962 | In Search of the Castaways | Thomas Ayerton |
| 1962 | Operation Snatch | Maj. Hobson |
| 1961 | Five Golden Hours | Mr. Bing |
| 1961 | The Rebel | Sir Charles Broward |
| 1961 | Rendezvous | Kellermann |
| 1960 | Village of the Damned | Gordon Zellaby |
| 1960 | The Last Voyage | Capitaine Robert Adams |
| 1960 | A Touch of Larceny | Sir Charles Holland |
| 1960 | Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons | Henri Landru |
| 1960 | Cone of Silence | Sir Arnold Hobbes |
| 1959 | Solomon and Sheba | Adonijah |
| 1959 | That Kind of Woman | A.L. |
| 1958 | From the Earth to the Moon | Stuyvesant Nicholl |
| 1958 | The Whole Truth | Carliss |
| 1957 | The Seventh Sin | Tim Waddington |
| 1956 | While the City Sleeps | Mark Loving |
| 1956 | Death of a Scoundrel | Clementi Sabourin |
| 1956 | That Certain Feeling | Larry Larkin |
| 1956 | Never Say Goodbye | Victor |
| 1956 | The Dream | Baron |
| 1956 | The Bitter Waters | Charles Ferris |
| 1955 | Moonfleet | Lord James Ashwood |
| 1955 | The King's Thief | King Charles II |
| 1955 | Jupiter's Darling | Fabius Maximus |
| 1955 | The Scarlet Coat | Dr. Jonathan Odell |
| 1955 | Laura | Waldo Lydecker |
| 1954 | Journey to Italy | Alexander 'Alex' Joyce |
| 1954 | Witness to Murder | Albert Richter |
| 1954 | King Richard and the Crusaders | King Richard I |
| 1953 | Call Me Madam | Cosmo Constantine |
| 1953 | A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family | Self |
| 1952 | Ivanhoe | De Bois-Guilbert |
| 1952 | Assignment: Paris | Nicholas Strang |
| 1951 | I Can Get It for You Wholesale | J F Noble |
| 1951 | The Light Touch | Felix Guignol |
| 1950 | All About Eve | Addison DeWitt |
| 1950 | Black Jack | Mike Alexander |
| 1949 | Samson and Delilah | The Saran of Gaza |
| 1949 | The Fan | Lord Robert Darlington |
| 1947 | Lured | Robert Fleming |
| 1947 | The Ghost and Mrs. Muir | Miles Fairley |
| 1947 | Forever Amber | King Charles II |
| 1947 | The Private Affairs of Bel Ami | Georges Duroy |
| 1946 | The Strange Woman | John Evered |
| 1946 | A Scandal in Paris | Eugéne François Vidocq |
| 1945 | Hangover Square | Dr. Allan Middleton |
| 1945 | The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry | Harry Melville Quincey |
| 1945 | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Lord Henry Wotton |
| 1944 | The Lodger | Inspector John Warwick |
| 1944 | Summer Storm | Fedja Michailovitch Petroff |
| 1944 | Action in Arabia | Michael Gordon |
| 1943 | Quiet Please, Murder | Jim Fleg |
| 1943 | This Land Is Mine | George Lambert |
| 1943 | Appointment in Berlin | Keith Wilson |
| 1943 | Paris After Dark | Dr. Andre Marbel |
| 1943 | They Came to Blow Up America | Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter |
| 1942 | Tales of Manhattan | Williams |
| 1942 | The Black Swan | Captain Billy Leech |
| 1942 | A Date with the Falcon | Gay Lawrence / The Falcon |
| 1942 | Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake | Sir Arthur Blake |
| 1942 | The Falcon Takes Over | Gay Lawrence |
| 1942 | The Falcon's Brother | Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence |
| 1942 | The Moon and Sixpence | Charles Strickland |
| 1942 | Her Cardboard Lover | Tony Barling |
| 1941 | Man Hunt | Major Quive-Smith |
| 1941 | Rage in Heaven | Ward Andrews |
| 1941 | The Gay Falcon | Gay Laurence / The Falcon |
| 1941 | The Saint In Palm Springs | Simon Templar |
| 1941 | Sundown | Major A.L. Coombes |
| 1940 | Rebecca | Jack Favell |
| 1940 | Foreign Correspondent | Scott ffolliott |
| 1940 | The House of the Seven Gables | Jaffrey Pyncheon |
| 1940 | The Saint's Double Trouble | Simon Templar |
| 1940 | The Son of Monte Cristo | Gurko Lanen |
| 1940 | The Saint Takes Over | Simon Templar |
| 1940 | Bitter Sweet | Baron Von Tranisch |
| 1940 | Green Hell | Forrester |
| 1939 | Allegheny Uprising | Captain Swanson |
| 1939 | The Saint Strikes Back | Simon Templar |
| 1939 | Mr. Moto's Last Warning | Eric Norvel |
| 1939 | The Saint in London | Simon Templar |
| 1939 | Confessions of a Nazi Spy | Franz Schlager |
| 1939 | Nurse Edith Cavell | Capt. Heinrichs |
| 1939 | So This Is London | Dr. de Reseke |
| 1939 | The Outsider | Anton Ragatzy |
| 1938 | Four Men and a Prayer | Wyatt Leigh |
| 1938 | International Settlement | Del Forbes |
| 1937 | Lancer Spy | Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce |
| 1937 | Slave Ship | Lefty |
| 1937 | The Lady Escapes | Rene Blanchard |
| 1937 | Love Is News | Count Andre de Guyon |
| 1936 | Things to Come | Celestial Body (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Lloyd's of London | Everett Stacy |
| 1936 | Dishonour Bright | Lisle |
| 1936 | The Man Who Could Work Miracles | Indifference - a God |
| 1934 | Love, Life and Laughter | Singer in Public Bar |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Batman | Mister Freeze |
| 1966 | Mission: Impossible | Armand Anderssarian |
| 1964 | Daniel Boone | Col. Roger Barr |
| 1964 | The Rogues | Leonard Carvel |
| 1964 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | G. Emory Partridge |
| 1960 | Checkmate | Richard Gilmore |
| 1957 | The George Sanders Mystery Theater | Host |
| 1956 | The Dinah Shore Chevy Show | Self |
| 1955 | Screen Director's Playhouse | Charles Ferris |
| 1955 | The 20th Century Fox Hour | Waldo Lydecker |
| 1954 | The Jimmy Durante Show | Self |
| 1954 | Studio 57 | Dr. Grissom |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater | Dr. Grissom |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater | William Clark |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater | Major Watkins |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | John York |
| 1950 | The Bob Hope Show | Self |
| 1950 | What's My Line? | Self - Panelist |
| 1950 | What's My Line? | Self - Mystery Guest |
| 1948 | The Ed Sullivan Show | Self |