George Sanders

George Sanders

  • Birthday: 1906-07-03
  • Deathday: 1972-04-25
  • 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.

Filmography

Village of the Damned

1960

As Gordon Zellaby

The House of the Seven Gables

1940

As Jaffrey Pyncheon

Quiet Please, Murder

1943

As Jim Fleg

The Girl from Rio

1969

As Sir Masius

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

1945

As Harry Melville Quincey

A Date with the Falcon

1942

As Gay Lawrence / The Falcon

The Falcon Takes Over

1942

As Gay Lawrence

The Falcon's Brother

1942

As Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence

The Gay Falcon

1941

As Gay Laurence / The Falcon

Death of a Scoundrel

1956

As Clementi Sabourin

The Saint's Double Trouble

1940

As Simon Templar

The Saint Strikes Back

1939

As Simon Templar

Appointment in Berlin

1943

As Keith Wilson

Summer Storm

1944

As Fedja Michailovitch Petroff

The Saint Takes Over

1940

As Simon Templar

Ecco

1963

As Narrator

The Saint in London

1939

As Simon Templar

The Saint In Palm Springs

1941

As Simon Templar

The Moon and Sixpence

1942

As Charles Strickland

Action in Arabia

1944

As Michael Gordon

The Body Stealers

1969

As Gen. Armstrong

A Scandal in Paris

1946

As Eugéne François Vidocq

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

1947

As Georges Duroy

Cairo

1963

As The Major

Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons

1960

As Henri Landru

Paris After Dark

1943

As Dr. Andre Marbel

They Came to Blow Up America

1943

As Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter

Black Jack

1950

As Mike Alexander

The Outsider

1939

As Anton Ragatzy

The Candy Man

1969

As Sidney Carter

Laura

1955

As Waldo Lydecker

Journey to Italy

1954

As Alexander 'Alex' Joyce

Lured

1947

As Robert Fleming

The Strange Woman

1946

As John Evered

Moonfleet

1955

As Lord James Ashwood

Witness to Murder

1954

As Albert Richter

From the Earth to the Moon

1958

As Stuyvesant Nicholl

The Picture of Dorian Gray

1945

As Lord Henry Wotton

Psychomania

1973

As Shadwell

Sundown

1941

As Major A.L. Coombes

Assignment: Paris

1952

As Nicholas Strang

A Touch of Larceny

1960

As Sir Charles Holland

The Rebel

1961

As Sir Charles Broward

Lancer Spy

1937

As Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce

Trunk to Cairo

1966

As Professor Schlieben

International Settlement

1938

As Del Forbes

Operation Snatch

1962

As Maj. Hobson

Rebecca

1940

As Jack Favell

All About Eve

1950

As Addison DeWitt

A Shot in the Dark

1964

As Benjamin Ballon

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

1947

As Miles Fairley

Man Hunt

1941

As Major Quive-Smith

Rage in Heaven

1941

As Ward Andrews

In Search of the Castaways

1962

As Thomas Ayerton

Hangover Square

1945

As Dr. Allan Middleton

The Lodger

1944

As Inspector John Warwick

Samson and Delilah

1949

As The Saran of Gaza

Solomon and Sheba

1959

As Adonijah

While the City Sleeps

1956

As Mark Loving

The Last Voyage

1960

As Capitaine Robert Adams

Allegheny Uprising

1939

As Captain Swanson

This Land Is Mine

1943

As George Lambert

The Son of Monte Cristo

1940

As Gurko Lanen

King Richard and the Crusaders

1954

As King Richard I

Five Golden Hours

1961

As Mr. Bing

Her Cardboard Lover

1942

As Tony Barling

Dark Purpose

1964

As Raymond Fontaine

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

1939

As Franz Schlager

Nurse Edith Cavell

1939

As Capt. Heinrichs

Bitter Sweet

1940

As Baron Von Tranisch

Four Men and a Prayer

1938

As Wyatt Leigh

The Whole Truth

1958

As Carliss

The Fan

1949

As Lord Robert Darlington

That Certain Feeling

1956

As Larry Larkin

The Seventh Sin

1957

As Tim Waddington

Never Say Goodbye

1956

As Victor

The Scarlet Coat

1955

As Dr. Jonathan Odell

The Light Touch

1951

As Felix Guignol

The Best House in London

1969

As Sir Francis Leybourne

The Cracksman

1963

As Guv'nor

F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck

1964

As Principe Makowski

Good Times

1967

As Mr. Mordicus / Knife McBlade / White hunter / Zarubian

So This Is London

1939

As Dr. de Reseke

Footsteps on the Ceiling

2013

As Addison DeWitt (archive footage)

The Lady Escapes

1937

As Rene Blanchard

Foreign Correspondent

1940

As Scott Ffolliott

The Jungle Book

1967

As Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)

Ivanhoe

1952

As De Bois-Guilbert

Call Me Madam

1953

As General Cosmo Constantine

The King's Thief

1955

As King Charles II

Forever Amber

1947

As King Charles II

Doomwatch

1972

As The Admiral

Laura

1968

As Waldo Lydecker

Green Hell

1940

As Forrester

One Step to Hell

1968

As Captain Walter Phillips

Endless Night

1972

As Andrew Lippincott

The Black Swan

1942

As Captain Billy Leech

Mr. Moto's Last Warning

1939

As Eric Norvel

The Night of the Assassin

1970

As General Downes

Jupiter's Darling

1955

As Fabius Maximus

Slave Ship

1937

As Lefty

Trouble in the Sky

1960

As Sir Arnold Hobbes

That Kind of Woman

1959

As A.L.

Rendezvous

1961

As Kellermann

Dorian Gray: A Portrait of Oscar Wilde

2020

As Lord Henry Wotton (archive footage)

Dishonour Bright

1936

As Lisle

Lloyd's of London

1936

As Everett Stacy

Warning Shot

1967

As Calvin York

The Kremlin Letter

1970

As Warlock

Love Is News

1937

As Count Andre de Guyon

The Man Who Could Work Miracles

1936

As Indifference - a God

Tales of Manhattan

1942

As Williams

Love, Life and Laughter

1934

As Singer in Public Bar

Things to Come

1936

As Celestial Body (uncredited)

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

1996

As Self (archive footage)

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

1986

As Self (from All About Eve [1950]) (archive footage)

Production

The Unholy Four

1954

As Novel

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