George Sanders
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 3, 1906
- Died
- April 25, 1972 (aged 65)
- Birthplace
- 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.
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Filmography
Footsteps on the Ceiling
Movie · as Addison DeWitt (archive footage)
Les messages de Fritz Lang
Movie
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Death In Hollywood
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Disney's Greatest Villains
Movie · as Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
Movie · as (archive footage)
Psychomania
Movie · as Shadwell
Endless Night
Movie · as Andrew Lippincott
Doomwatch
Movie · as The Admiral
The Kremlin Letter
Movie · as Warlock
The Night of the Assassin
Movie · as General Downes
The Girl from Rio
Movie · as Sir Masius
The Body Stealers
Movie · as Gen. Armstrong
The Best House in London
Movie · as Sir Francis Leybourne
The Candy Man
Movie · as Sidney Carter
Laura
Movie · as Waldo Lydecker
One Step to Hell
Movie · as Captain Walter Phillips
The Jungle Book
Movie · as Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
Warning Shot
Movie · as Calvin York
Good Times
Movie · as Mordicus
The Quiller Memorandum
Movie · as Gibbs
Trunk to Cairo
Movie · as Professor Schlieben
Batman
TV · as Mister Freeze, Mister Freeze (uncredited) · 2 eps
Mission: Impossible
TV · as Armand Anderssarian · 1 ep
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
Movie · as The Banker
A Shot in the Dark
Movie · as Benjamin Ballon
Dark Purpose
Movie · as Raymond Fontaine
F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck
Movie · as Principe Makowski
The Golden Head
Movie · as Basil Palmer
Daniel Boone
TV · as Col. Roger Barr · 1 ep
The Rogues
TV · as Leonard Carvel · 1 ep
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV · as G. Emory Partridge · 2 eps
Cairo
Movie · as The Major
The Cracksman
Movie · as Guv'nor
Ecco
Movie · as Narrator
In Search of the Castaways
Movie · as Thomas Ayerton
Operation Snatch
Movie · as Maj. Hobson
Five Golden Hours
Movie · as Mr. Bing
The Rebel
Movie · as Sir Charles Broward
Rendezvous
Movie · as Kellermann
Village of the Damned
Movie · as Gordon Zellaby
The Last Voyage
Movie · as Capitaine Robert Adams
A Touch of Larceny
Movie · as Sir Charles Holland
Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
Movie · as Henri Landru
Cone of Silence
Movie · as Sir Arnold Hobbes
World by Night
Movie
Checkmate
TV · as Richard Gilmore · 1 ep
Solomon and Sheba
Movie · as Adonijah
That Kind of Woman
Movie · as A.L.
From the Earth to the Moon
Movie · as Stuyvesant Nicholl
The Whole Truth
Movie · as Carliss
The Seventh Sin
Movie · as Tim Waddington
The George Sanders Mystery Theater
TV · as Host · 13 eps
While the City Sleeps
Movie · as Mark Loving
Death of a Scoundrel
Movie · as Clementi Sabourin
That Certain Feeling
Movie · as Larry Larkin
Never Say Goodbye
Movie · as Victor
The Dream
Movie · as Baron
The Bitter Waters
Movie · as Charles Ferris
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Moonfleet
Movie · as Lord James Ashwood
The King's Thief
Movie · as King Charles II
Jupiter's Darling
Movie · as Fabius Maximus
The Scarlet Coat
Movie · as Dr. Jonathan Odell
Laura
Movie · as Waldo Lydecker
Screen Director's Playhouse
TV · as Charles Ferris · 1 ep
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV · as Waldo Lydecker · 1 ep
Journey to Italy
Movie · as Alex Joyce
Witness to Murder
Movie · as Albert Richter
King Richard and the Crusaders
Movie · as King Richard I
The Jimmy Durante Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Studio 57
TV · as Dr. Grissom · 1 ep
Call Me Madam
Movie · as Cosmo Constantine
A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family
Movie · as Self
General Electric Theater
TV · as Dr. Grissom, William Clark, Major Watkins · 1 ep
Ivanhoe
Movie · as Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert
Assignment: Paris
Movie · as Nicholas Strang
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
Movie · as J F Noble
The Light Touch
Movie · as Felix Guignol
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV · as John York · 1 ep
All About Eve
Movie · as Addison DeWitt
Black Jack
Movie · as Mike Alexander
The Bob Hope Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
What's My Line?
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Samson and Delilah
Movie · as The Saran of Gaza
The Fan
Movie · as Lord Robert Darlington
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Lured
Movie · as Robert Fleming
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Movie · as Miles Fairley
Forever Amber
Movie · as King Charles II
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
Movie · as Georges Duroy
The Strange Woman
Movie · as John Evered
A Scandal in Paris
Movie · as Eugéne François Vidocq
Hangover Square
Movie · as Dr. Allan Middleton
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
Movie · as Harry Melville Quincey
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Movie · as Lord Henry Wotton
The Lodger
Movie · as Inspector John Warwick
Summer Storm
Movie · as Fedja Michailovitch Petroff
Action in Arabia
Movie · as Michael Gordon
Quiet Please, Murder
Movie · as Jim Fleg
This Land Is Mine
Movie · as George Lambert
Appointment in Berlin
Movie · as Keith Wilson
Paris After Dark
Movie · as Dr. Andre Marbel
They Came to Blow Up America
Movie · as Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
Tales of Manhattan
Movie · as Williams
The Black Swan
Movie · as Captain Billy Leech
A Date with the Falcon
Movie · as Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Movie · as Sir Arthur Blake
The Falcon Takes Over
Movie · as Gay Lawrence
The Falcon's Brother
Movie · as Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence
The Moon and Sixpence
Movie · as Charles Strickland
Her Cardboard Lover
Movie · as Tony Barling
Man Hunt
Movie · as Major Quive-Smith
Rage in Heaven
Movie · as Ward Andrews
The Gay Falcon
Movie · as Gay Laurence / The Falcon
The Saint In Palm Springs
Movie · as Simon Templar
Sundown
Movie · as Major A.L. Coombes
Rebecca
Movie · as Jack Favell
Foreign Correspondent
Movie · as Scott ffolliott
The House of the Seven Gables
Movie · as Jaffrey Pyncheon
The Saint's Double Trouble
Movie · as Simon Templar
The Son of Monte Cristo
Movie · as Gurko Lanen
The Saint Takes Over
Movie · as Simon Templar
Bitter Sweet
Movie · as Baron Von Tranisch
Green Hell
Movie · as Forrester
Allegheny Uprising
Movie · as Captain Swanson
The Saint Strikes Back
Movie · as Simon Templar
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
Movie · as Eric Norvel
The Saint in London
Movie · as Simon Templar
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Movie · as Franz Schlager
Nurse Edith Cavell
Movie · as Capt. Heinrichs
So This Is London
Movie · as Dr. de Reseke
The Outsider
Movie · as Anton Ragatzy
Four Men and a Prayer
Movie · as Wyatt Leigh
International Settlement
Movie · as Del Forbes
Lancer Spy
Movie · as Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
Slave Ship
Movie · as Lefty
The Lady Escapes
Movie · as Rene Blanchard
Love Is News
Movie · as Count Andre de Guyon
Things to Come
Movie · as Celestial Body (uncredited)
Lloyd's of London
Movie · as Everett Stacy
Dishonour Bright
Movie · as Lisle
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Movie · as Indifference - a God
Love, Life and Laughter
Movie · as Singer in Public Bar (uncredited)