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George Sanders

George Sanders

Acting1906Saint 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.

Acting History

2013
Footsteps on the Ceiling
as Addison DeWitt (archive footage)
1996
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
as Self (archive footage)
1977
Disney's Greatest Villains
as Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)
1973
Psychomania
as Shadwell
1972
Endless Night
as Andrew Lippincott
Doomwatch
as The Admiral
1971
Mission: Impossible
TVas Armand Anderssarian• 1 eps
1970
The Night of the Assassin
as General Downes
1969
The Girl from Rio
as Sir Masius
The Best House in London
as Sir Francis Leybourne
The Body Stealers
as Gen. Armstrong
The Candy Man
as Sidney Carter
1968
Laura
as Waldo Lydecker
One Step to Hell
as Captain Walter Phillips
1967
The Jungle Book
as Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
Good Times
as Mordicus
Warning Shot
as Calvin York
1966
Trunk to Cairo
as Professor Schlieben
Batman
TVas Mister Freeze (uncredited)• 1 eps
Daniel Boone
TVas Col. Roger Barr• 1 eps
1965
The Rogues
TVas Leonard Carvel• 1 eps
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TVas G. Emory Partridge• 2 eps
1964
A Shot in the Dark
as Benjamin Ballon
Dark Purpose
as Raymond Fontaine
F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck
as Principe Makowski
The Golden Head
as Basil Palmer
1963
Cairo
as The Major
The Cracksman
as Guv'nor
Ecco
as Narrator
1962
Operation Snatch
as Maj. Hobson
Checkmate
TVas Richard Gilmore• 1 eps
1961
The Rebel
as Sir Charles Broward
Rendezvous
as Kellermann
General Electric Theater
TVas Major Watkins• 1 eps
1960
The Last Voyage
as Capitaine Robert Adams
Village of the Damned
as Gordon Zellaby
A Touch of Larceny
as Sir Charles Holland
Cone of Silence
as Sir Arnold Hobbes
1959
1958
From the Earth to the Moon
as Stuyvesant Nicholl
The Whole Truth
as Carliss
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
TVas Self• 1 eps
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TVas John York• 1 eps
1957
The Seventh Sin
as Tim Waddington
What's My Line?
TVas Self - Mystery Guest• 1 eps
The Ed Sullivan Show
TVas Self• 1 eps
1956
The Bitter Waters
as Charles Ferris
Death of a Scoundrel
as Clementi Sabourin
While the City Sleeps
as Mark Loving
That Certain Feeling
as Larry Larkin
The Dream
as Baron
The Bob Hope Show
TVas Self• 2 eps
Screen Director's Playhouse
TVas Charles Ferris• 1 eps
Studio 57
TVas Dr. Grissom• 1 eps
The Jimmy Durante Show
TVas Self• 1 eps
1955
Moonfleet
as Lord James Ashwood
The King's Thief
as King Charles II
Laura
as Waldo Lydecker
The Scarlet Coat
as Dr. Jonathan Odell
Jupiter's Darling
as Fabius Maximus
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TVas Waldo Lydecker• 1 eps
1954
Journey to Italy
as Alexander 'Alex' Joyce
Witness to Murder
as Albert Richter
1953
Call Me Madam
as Cosmo Constantine
1952
Ivanhoe
as Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert
Assignment: Paris
as Nicholas Strang
1951
The Light Touch
as Felix Guignol
1950
Black Jack
as Mike Alexander
All About Eve
as Addison DeWitt
1949
The Fan
as Lord Robert Darlington
Samson and Delilah
as The Saran of Gaza
1947
Lured
as Robert Fleming
Forever Amber
as King Charles II
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
as Miles Fairley
1946
A Scandal in Paris
as Eugéne François Vidocq
The Strange Woman
as John Evered
1945
The Picture of Dorian Gray
as Lord Henry Wotton
Hangover Square
as Dr. Allan Middleton
Uncle Harry
as Harry Melville Quincey
1944
Summer Storm
as Fedja Michailovitch Petroff
The Lodger
as Inspector John Warwick
Action in Arabia
as Michael Gordon
1943
They Came to Blow Up America
as Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
This Land Is Mine
as George Lambert
Appointment in Berlin
as Keith Wilson
Paris After Dark
as Dr. Andre Marbel
1942
The Falcon's Brother
as Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence
The Black Swan
as Captain Billy Leech
A Date with the Falcon
as Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
The Moon and Sixpence
as Charles Strickland
Her Cardboard Lover
as Tony Barling
The Falcon Takes Over
as Gay Lawrence
1941
Man Hunt
as Major Quive-Smith
The Gay Falcon
as Gay Laurence / The Falcon
Sundown
as Major A.L. Coombes
Rage in Heaven
as Ward Andrews
1940
The Saint Takes Over
as Simon Templar
Rebecca
as Jack Favell
Foreign Correspondent
as Scott ffolliott
Bitter Sweet
as Baron Von Tranisch
Green Hell
as Forrester
1939
The Saint in London
as Simon Templar
Allegheny Uprising
as Captain Swanson
The Saint Strikes Back
as Simon Templar
The Outsider
as Anton Ragatzy
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
as Franz Schlager
Nurse Edith Cavell
as Capt. Heinrichs
So This Is London
as Dr. de Reseke
1938
Four Men and a Prayer
as Wyatt Leigh
1937
Lancer Spy
as Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
The Lady Escapes
as Rene Blanchard
Love Is News
as Count Andre de Guyon
Slave Ship
as Lefty
1936
Lloyd's of London
as Everett Stacy
Things to Come
as Celestial Body (uncredited)
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
as Indifference - a God
1934
Love, Life and Laughter
as Singer in Public Bar (uncredited)

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
7/3/1906
Day of Death
4/25/1972
Place of Birth
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]