Name
George Sanders
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1906-07-03
Deathday
1972-04-25 (66 years old)
Place of Birth
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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
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When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seek...
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Near death, King David has a vision that his poet son, Solomon, should succeed him, rather...
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In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woma...
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When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of som...
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A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually re...
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Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly tur...
- 1940 Rebecca as Jack Favell
- 1964 A Shot in the Dark as Benjamin Ballon
- 1950 All About Eve as Addison DeWitt
- 1936 Things to Come as Celestial Body (uncredited)
- 1954 Journey to Italy as Alex Joyce
- 1996 Ingrid Bergman Remembered as Self (archive footage)
- 1947 Lured as Robert Fleming
- 1947 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir as Miles Fairley
- 1941 Man Hunt as Major Quive-Smith
- 1960 Village of the Damned as Gordon Zellaby
- 1941 Rage in Heaven as Ward Andrews
- 1940 Foreign Correspondent as Scott ffolliott
- 1967 The Jungle Book as Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
- 1952 Ivanhoe as Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert
- 1946 The Strange Woman as John Evered
- 1942 Tales of Manhattan as Williams
- 1962 In Search of the Castaways as Thomas Ayerton
- 1972 Endless Night as Andrew Lippincott
- 1940 The House of the Seven Gables as Jaffrey Pyncheon
- 1944 The Lodger as Inspector John Warwick
- 1945 Hangover Square as Dr. Allan Middleton
- 1943 Quiet Please, Murder as Jim Fleg
- 1942 The Black Swan as Captain Billy Leech
- 1955 Moonfleet as Lord James Ashwood
- 1949 Samson and Delilah as The Saran of Gaza
- 1959 Solomon and Sheba as Adonijah
- 1956 While the City Sleeps as Mark Loving
- 1969 The Girl from Rio as Sir Masius
- 1945 The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry as Harry Melville Quincey
- 1954 Witness to Murder as Albert Richter
- 1942 A Date with the Falcon as Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
- 1939 Allegheny Uprising as Captain Swanson
- 1942 Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake as Sir Arthur Blake
- 1960 The Last Voyage as Capitaine Robert Adams
- 1956 Death of a Scoundrel as Clementi Sabourin
- 1942 The Falcon's Brother as Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence
- 1941 The Gay Falcon as Gay Laurence / The Falcon
- 1942 The Falcon Takes Over as Gay Lawrence
- 1958 From the Earth to the Moon as Stuyvesant Nicholl
- 1943 This Land Is Mine as George Lambert
- 1940 The Saint's Double Trouble as Simon Templar
- 1970 The Kremlin Letter as Warlock
- 1945 The Picture of Dorian Gray as Lord Henry Wotton
- 1953 Call Me Madam as Cosmo Constantine
- 1966 The Quiller Memorandum as Gibbs
- 1939 The Saint Strikes Back as Simon Templar
- 1973 Psychomania as Shadwell
- 1943 Appointment in Berlin as Keith Wilson
- 1939 Mr. Moto's Last Warning as Eric Norvel
- 1940 The Son of Monte Cristo as Gurko Lanen
- 1954 King Richard and the Crusaders as King Richard I
- 1944 Summer Storm as Fedja Michailovitch Petroff
- 1936 Lloyd's of London as Everett Stacy
- 1961 Five Golden Hours as Mr. Bing
- 1940 The Saint Takes Over as Simon Templar
- 1951 I Can Get It for You Wholesale as J F Noble
- 1942 The Moon and Sixpence as Charles Strickland
- 1941 The Saint In Palm Springs as Simon Templar
- 1939 The Saint in London as Simon Templar
- 1941 Sundown as Major A.L. Coombes
- 1952 Assignment: Paris as Nicholas Strang
- 1960 A Touch of Larceny as Sir Charles Holland
- 1944 Action in Arabia as Michael Gordon
- 1967 Warning Shot as Calvin York
- 1955 The King's Thief as King Charles II
- 1942 Her Cardboard Lover as Tony Barling
- 1961 The Rebel as Sir Charles Broward
- 1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders as The Banker
- 1940 Bitter Sweet as Baron Von Tranisch
- 1947 Forever Amber as King Charles II
- 1964 Dark Purpose as Raymond Fontaine
- 1939 Confessions of a Nazi Spy as Franz Schlager
- 1970 The Night of the Assassin as General Downes
- 1937 Lancer Spy as Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
- 1969 The Body Stealers as Gen. Armstrong
- 1972 Doomwatch as The Admiral
- 1955 Jupiter's Darling as Fabius Maximus
- 1938 Four Men and a Prayer as Wyatt Leigh
- 1958 The Whole Truth as Carliss
- 1947 The Private Affairs of Bel Ami as Georges Duroy
- 1946 A Scandal in Paris as Eugéne François Vidocq
- 1968 Laura as Waldo Lydecker
- 1949 The Fan as Lord Robert Darlington
- 1940 Green Hell as Forrester
- 1963 Cairo as The Major
- 1956 That Certain Feeling as Larry Larkin
- 1937 Slave Ship as Lefty
- 1956 Never Say Goodbye as Victor
- 1957 The Seventh Sin as Tim Waddington
- 1966 Trunk to Cairo as Professor Schlieben
- 1955 The Scarlet Coat as Dr. Jonathan Odell
- 1951 The Light Touch as Felix Guignol
- 1968 One Step to Hell as Captain Walter Phillips
- 1959 That Kind of Woman as A.L.
- 1960 Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons as Henri Landru
- 1938 International Settlement as Del Forbes
- 1943 Paris After Dark as Dr. Andre Marbel
- 1960 Cone of Silence as Sir Arnold Hobbes
- 1939 Nurse Edith Cavell as Capt. Heinrichs
- 1969 The Best House in London as Sir Francis Leybourne
- 1963 The Cracksman as Guv'nor
- 1943 They Came to Blow Up America as Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
- 1964 F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck as Principe Makowski
- 1936 Dishonour Bright as Lisle
- 1967 Good Times as Mordicus
- 1950 Black Jack as Mike Alexander
- 1934 Love, Life and Laughter as Singer in Public Bar (uncredited)
- 1937 The Lady Escapes as Rene Blanchard
- 1936 The Man Who Could Work Miracles as Indifference - a God
- 1963 Ecco as Narrator
- 1939 So This Is London as Dr. de Reseke
- 1964 The Golden Head as Basil Palmer
- 1939 The Outsider as Anton Ragatzy
- 1937 Love Is News as Count Andre de Guyon
- 1962 Operation Snatch as Maj. Hobson
- 1969 The Candy Man as Sidney Carter
- 1961 Rendezvous as Kellermann
- 1953 A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family as Self
- 1955 Laura as Waldo Lydecker
- 2013 Footsteps on the Ceiling as Addison DeWitt (archive footage)
- 1956 The Dream as Baron
- 1956 The Bitter Waters as Charles Ferris
- 1977 Disney's Greatest Villains as Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)
- 1960 World by Night
- 1976 Bob Hope's World of Comedy as Self (archive footage)
- 1990 Death In Hollywood
- 1966 Batman ( 2 episodes ) as Mister Freeze
- 1953 General Electric Theater ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Grissom
- 1966 Mission: Impossible ( 1 episode ) as Armand Anderssarian
- 1964 Daniel Boone ( 1 episode ) as Col. Roger Barr
- 1951 Schlitz Playhouse of Stars ( 1 episode ) as John York
- 1956 The Dinah Shore Chevy Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1957 The George Sanders Mystery Theater ( 13 episodes ) as Host
- 1954 The Jimmy Durante Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1964 The Rogues ( 1 episode ) as Leonard Carvel
- 1953 General Electric Theater ( 1 episode ) as William Clark
- 1953 General Electric Theater ( 1 episode ) as Major Watkins
- 1950 The Bob Hope Show ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1948 The Ed Sullivan Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1960 Checkmate ( 1 episode ) as Richard Gilmore
- 1964 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ( 2 episodes ) as G. Emory Partridge
- 1955 Screen Director's Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Charles Ferris
- 1950 What's My Line? ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1955 The 20th Century Fox Hour ( 1 episode ) as Waldo Lydecker
- 1954 Studio 57 ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Grissom
- 1966 Batman ( 1 episode ) as Mister Freeze (uncredited)
