George Sanders
Known for Acting · 143 credits
- Born
- 1906-07-03
- Died
- 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.
Known For
TV Shows (17)
Batman
1966
as Mister Freeze / Mister Freeze (uncredited)
Mission: Impossible
1966
as Armand Anderssarian
What's My Line?
1950
as Self
Daniel Boone
1964
as Col. Roger Barr
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
The Bob Hope Show
1950
as Self
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
as G. Emory Partridge
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
as Waldo Lydecker
Checkmate
1960
as Richard Gilmore
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
as Self
Studio 57
1954
as Dr. Grissom
The Rogues
1964
as Leonard Carvel
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955
as Charles Ferris
The Jimmy Durante Show
1954
as Self
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
as John York
General Electric Theater
1953
as Dr. Grissom / William Clark / Major Watkins
The George Sanders Mystery Theater
1957
as Host
Movies (126)
The Jungle Book
1967
as Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
Rebecca
1940
as Jack Favell
All About Eve
1950
as Addison DeWitt
Samson and Delilah
1949
as The Saran of Gaza
Solomon and Sheba
1959
as Adonijah
Foreign Correspondent
1940
as Scott ffolliott
The Black Swan
1942
as Captain Billy Leech
A Shot in the Dark
1964
as Benjamin Ballon
The Girl from Rio
1969
as Sir Masius
Green Hell
1940
as Forrester
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945
as Lord Henry Wotton
Ivanhoe
1952
as Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
1947
as Miles Fairley
Rage in Heaven
1941
as Ward Andrews
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
1976
as Self (archive footage)
While the City Sleeps
1956
as Mark Loving
King Richard and the Crusaders
1954
as King Richard I
Death of a Scoundrel
1956
as Clementi Sabourin
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939
as Franz Schlager
Action in Arabia
1944
as Michael Gordon
Things to Come
1936
as Celestial Body (uncredited)
Nurse Edith Cavell
1939
as Capt. Heinrichs
The Gay Falcon
1941
as Gay Laurence / The Falcon
In Search of the Castaways
1962
as Thomas Ayerton
Trunk to Cairo
1966
as Professor Schlieben
Village of the Damned
1960
as Gordon Zellaby
Jupiter's Darling
1955
as Fabius Maximus
The Quiller Memorandum
1966
as Gibbs
Rendezvous
1961
as Kellermann
Love, Life and Laughter
1934
as Singer in Public Bar (uncredited)
Four Men and a Prayer
1938
as Wyatt Leigh
That Certain Feeling
1956
as Larry Larkin
Tales of Manhattan
1942
as Williams
The Strange Woman
1946
as John Evered
A Touch of Larceny
1960
as Sir Charles Holland
The King's Thief
1955
as King Charles II
Journey to Italy
1954
as Alex Joyce
Forever Amber
1947
as King Charles II
That Kind of Woman
1959
as A.L.
Never Say Goodbye
1956
as Victor
Disney's Greatest Villains
1977
as Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
1939
as Eric Norvel
The Rebel
1961
as Sir Charles Broward
The Best House in London
1969
as Sir Francis Leybourne
Man Hunt
1941
as Major Quive-Smith
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
1936
as Indifference - a God
So This Is London
1939
as Dr. de Reseke
International Settlement
1938
as Del Forbes
The Kremlin Letter
1970
as Warlock
Lured
1947
as Robert Fleming
Death In Hollywood
1990
The Son of Monte Cristo
1940
as Gurko Lanen
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
1947
as Georges Duroy
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
1965
as The Banker
Moonfleet
1955
as Lord James Ashwood
Assignment: Paris
1952
as Nicholas Strang
The Falcon's Brother
1942
as Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence
Allegheny Uprising
1939
as Captain Swanson
Warning Shot
1967
as Calvin York
Endless Night
1972
as Andrew Lippincott
Slave Ship
1937
as Lefty
Bitter Sweet
1940
as Baron Von Tranisch
Cone of Silence
1960
as Sir Arnold Hobbes
The Scarlet Coat
1955
as Dr. Jonathan Odell
The Lodger
1944
as Inspector John Warwick
The Saint In Palm Springs
1941
as Simon Templar
The Last Voyage
1960
as Capitaine Robert Adams
Witness to Murder
1954
as Albert Richter
Lloyd's of London
1936
as Everett Stacy
Love Is News
1937
as Count Andre de Guyon
The Seventh Sin
1957
as Tim Waddington
Footsteps on the Ceiling
2013
as Addison DeWitt (archive footage)
Cairo
1963
as The Major
Five Golden Hours
1961
as Mr. Bing
Laura
1968
as Waldo Lydecker
This Land Is Mine
1943
as George Lambert
The Falcon Takes Over
1942
as Gay Lawrence
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
1945
as Harry Melville Quincey
The House of the Seven Gables
1940
as Jaffrey Pyncheon
The Fan
1949
as Lord Robert Darlington
The Saint in London
1939
as Simon Templar
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1942
as Sir Arthur Blake
Good Times
1967
as Mordicus
The Whole Truth
1958
as Carliss
The Night of the Assassin
1970
as General Downes
Hangover Square
1945
as Dr. Allan Middleton
The Cracksman
1963
as Guv'nor
Summer Storm
1944
as Fedja Michailovitch Petroff
Psychomania
1973
as Shadwell
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
1951
as J F Noble
Doomwatch
1972
as The Admiral
Call Me Madam
1953
as Cosmo Constantine
A Scandal in Paris
1946
as Eugéne François Vidocq
Sundown
1941
as Major A.L. Coombes
From the Earth to the Moon
1958
as Stuyvesant Nicholl
Operation Snatch
1962
as Maj. Hobson
The Candy Man
1969
as Sidney Carter
The Light Touch
1951
as Felix Guignol
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
1996
as Self (archive footage)
The Moon and Sixpence
1942
as Charles Strickland
Her Cardboard Lover
1942
as Tony Barling
Lancer Spy
1937
as Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
The Dream
1956
as Baron
A Date with the Falcon
1942
as Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
The Saint Takes Over
1940
as Simon Templar
World by Night
1960
F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck
1964
as Principe Makowski
Ecco
1963
as Narrator
Dark Purpose
1964
as Raymond Fontaine
Laura
1955
as Waldo Lydecker
One Step to Hell
1968
as Captain Walter Phillips
The Saint Strikes Back
1939
as Simon Templar
The Lady Escapes
1937
as Rene Blanchard
The Body Stealers
1969
as Gen. Armstrong
The Bitter Waters
1956
as Charles Ferris
Dishonour Bright
1936
as Lisle
The Outsider
1939
as Anton Ragatzy
They Came to Blow Up America
1943
as Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
Appointment in Berlin
1943
as Keith Wilson
The Saint's Double Trouble
1940
as Simon Templar
About George Sanders
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… With 143 credits spanning from 1934 to 2013, George Sanders has appeared in 126 films and 17 TV shows.
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Most Popular George Sanders Movies
- The Jungle Book (1967) — as Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
- Rebecca (1940) — as Jack Favell
- All About Eve (1950) — as Addison DeWitt
- Samson and Delilah (1949) — as The Saran of Gaza
- Solomon and Sheba (1959) — as Adonijah
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