George Sanders
Acting
Born: July 3, 1906 · Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Died: April 25, 1972 (aged 65)
Highest Rated
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
The Jungle Book
1967
Rebecca
1940
All About Eve
1950
A Shot in the Dark
1964
Batman
1966
Village of the Damned
1960
Foreign Correspondent
1940
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
1947
Journey to Italy
1954
Mission: Impossible
1966
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945
Samson and Delilah
1949
Photos (3)
Movies (121)
The Jungle Book
Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
All About Eve
Addison DeWitt
Rebecca
Jack Favell
A Shot in the Dark
Benjamin Ballon
Foreign Correspondent
Scott ffolliott
The Black Swan
Captain Billy Leech
Ivanhoe
Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lord Henry Wotton
Samson and Delilah
The Saran of Gaza
Village of the Damned
Gordon Zellaby
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Miles Fairley
Solomon and Sheba
Adonijah
Things to Come
Celestial Body (uncredited)
The Lodger
Inspector John Warwick
Lured
Robert Fleming
Man Hunt
Major Quive-Smith
The Strange Woman
John Evered
The Girl from Rio
Sir Masius
Ecco
Narrator
King Richard and the Crusaders
King Richard I
While the City Sleeps
Mark Loving
The Quiller Memorandum
Gibbs
The Falcon Takes Over
Gay Lawrence
Journey to Italy
Alex Joyce
Forever Amber
King Charles II
Warning Shot
Calvin York
The Kremlin Letter
Warlock
Rage in Heaven
Ward Andrews
Moonfleet
Lord James Ashwood
Never Say Goodbye
Victor
Love Is News
Count Andre de Guyon
Endless Night
Andrew Lippincott
In Search of the Castaways
Thomas Ayerton
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Sir Arthur Blake
A Scandal in Paris
Eugéne François Vidocq
The Seventh Sin
Tim Waddington
The Gay Falcon
Gay Laurence / The Falcon
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
The Banker
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Franz Schlager
Four Men and a Prayer
Wyatt Leigh
The Son of Monte Cristo
Gurko Lanen
Green Hell
Forrester
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
Harry Melville Quincey
Allegheny Uprising
Captain Swanson
Hangover Square
Dr. Allan Middleton
Doomwatch
The Admiral
Witness to Murder
Albert Richter
Assignment: Paris
Nicholas Strang
The King's Thief
King Charles II
A Touch of Larceny
Sir Charles Holland
This Land Is Mine
George Lambert
The Scarlet Coat
Dr. Jonathan Odell
Lloyd's of London
Everett Stacy
Death of a Scoundrel
Clementi Sabourin
The Falcon's Brother
Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Indifference - a God
International Settlement
Del Forbes
That Kind of Woman
A.L.
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
Georges Duroy
Disney's Greatest Villains
Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)
The Saint Takes Over
Simon Templar
Tales of Manhattan
Williams
The Last Voyage
Capitaine Robert Adams
A Date with the Falcon
Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
Nurse Edith Cavell
Capt. Heinrichs
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
Eric Norvel
Jupiter's Darling
Fabius Maximus
Sundown
Major A.L. Coombes
Rendezvous
Kellermann
Summer Storm
Fedja Michailovitch Petroff
Good Times
Mordicus
Her Cardboard Lover
Tony Barling
Slave Ship
Lefty
The Fan
Lord Robert Darlington
Trunk to Cairo
Professor Schlieben
The House of the Seven Gables
Jaffrey Pyncheon
Call Me Madam
Cosmo Constantine
Cone of Silence
Sir Arnold Hobbes
That Certain Feeling
Larry Larkin
Five Golden Hours
Mr. Bing
Death In Hollywood
1990
The Moon and Sixpence
Charles Strickland
The Best House in London
Sir Francis Leybourne
The Rebel
Sir Charles Broward
From the Earth to the Moon
Stuyvesant Nicholl
Lancer Spy
Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
The Cracksman
Guv'nor
So This Is London
Dr. de Reseke
Appointment in Berlin
Keith Wilson
The Light Touch
Felix Guignol
Action in Arabia
Michael Gordon
The Saint Strikes Back
Simon Templar
The Lady Escapes
Rene Blanchard
The Whole Truth
Carliss
The Saint's Double Trouble
Simon Templar
One Step to Hell
Captain Walter Phillips
Operation Snatch
Maj. Hobson
Bitter Sweet
Baron Von Tranisch
The Saint In Palm Springs
Simon Templar
Black Jack
Mike Alexander
They Came to Blow Up America
Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
Footsteps on the Ceiling
Addison DeWitt (archive footage)
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
J F Noble
Love, Life and Laughter
Singer in Public Bar (uncredited)
Dark Purpose
Raymond Fontaine
Quiet Please, Murder
Jim Fleg
The Outsider
Anton Ragatzy
Cairo
The Major
Psychomania
Shadwell
The Golden Head
Basil Palmer
The Night of the Assassin
General Downes
Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
Henri Landru
The Body Stealers
Gen. Armstrong
The Candy Man
Sidney Carter
The Saint in London
Simon Templar
F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck
Principe Makowski
Paris After Dark
Dr. Andre Marbel
Laura
Waldo Lydecker
Laura
Waldo Lydecker
Dishonour Bright
Lisle
World by Night
1960
TV Shows (14)
Batman
Mister Freeze · 2 eps
Batman
Mister Freeze (uncredited) · 1 eps
Mission: Impossible
Armand Anderssarian · 1 eps
Daniel Boone
Col. Roger Barr · 1 eps
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
G. Emory Partridge · 2 eps
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Waldo Lydecker · 1 eps
Studio 57
Dr. Grissom · 1 eps
Checkmate
Richard Gilmore · 1 eps
The Rogues
Leonard Carvel · 1 eps
Screen Director's Playhouse
Charles Ferris · 1 eps
General Electric Theater
Dr. Grissom · 1 eps
General Electric Theater
William Clark · 1 eps
General Electric Theater
Major Watkins · 1 eps
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
John York · 1 eps
Self / Appearances (6)
What's My Line?
Self · 2 eps
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self · 1 eps
The Bob Hope Show
Self · 2 eps
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self · 1 eps
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Self (archive footage)
A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family
Self
