George Sanders
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1906-07-03
Day of Death
1972-04-25 (65 years old)
Place of Birth
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
George Sanders
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
(2013)
Footsteps on the Ceiling
as Addison DeWitt (archive footage)
(1996)
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
as Self (archive footage)
(1986)
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
as Self (from All About Eve [1950]) (archive footage)
(1977)
Disney's Greatest Villains
as Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)
(1973)
Psychomania
as Shadwell
(1972)
Endless Night
as Andrew Lippincott
(1972)
Doomwatch
as The Admiral
(1970)
The Kremlin Letter
as Warlock
(1970)
The Night of the Assassin
as General Downes
(1969)
The Girl from Rio
as Sir Masius
(1969)
The Body Stealers
as Gen. Armstrong
(1969)
The Best House in London
as Sir Francis Leybourne
(1969)
The Candy Man
as Sidney Carter
(1968)
Laura
as Waldo Lydecker
(1968)
One Step to Hell
as Captain Walter Phillips
(1967)
The Jungle Book
as Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
(1967)
Warning Shot
as Calvin York
(1967)
Good Times
as Mordicus
(1966)
The Quiller Memorandum
as Gibbs
(1966)
Trunk to Cairo
as Professor Schlieben
(1965)
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
as The Banker
(1964)
A Shot in the Dark
as Benjamin Ballon
(1964)
F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck
as Principe Makowski
(1964)
Dark Purpose
as Raymond Fontaine
(1964)
(1963)
Cairo
as The Major
(1963)
The Cracksman
as Guv'nor
(1963)
Ecco
as Narrator
(1962)
In Search of the Castaways
as Thomas Ayerton
(1962)
Operation Snatch
as Maj. Hobson
(1961)
The Rebel
as Sir Charles Broward
(1961)
Five Golden Hours
as Mr. Bing
(1961)
Rendezvous
as Kellermann
(1960)
Village of the Damned
as Gordon Zellaby
(1960)
Cone of Silence
as Sir Arnold Hobbes
(1960)
The Last Voyage
as Capitaine Robert Adams
(1960)
A Touch of Larceny
as Sir Charles Holland
(1960)
Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
as Henri Landru
(1959)
Solomon and Sheba
as Adonijah
(1959)
That Kind of Woman
as A.L.
(1958)
From the Earth to the Moon
as Stuyvesant Nicholl
(1958)
The Whole Truth
as Carliss
(1957)
The Seventh Sin
as Tim Waddington
(1956)
While the City Sleeps
as Mark Loving
(1956)
Never Say Goodbye
as Victor
(1956)
Death of a Scoundrel
as Clementi Sabourin
(1956)
That Certain Feeling
as Larry Larkin
(1956)
The Dream
as Baron
(1956)
The Bitter Waters
as Charles Ferris
(1955)
The King's Thief
as King Charles II
(1955)
Moonfleet
as Lord James Ashwood
(1955)
Jupiter's Darling
as Fabius Maximus
(1955)
The Scarlet Coat
as Dr. Jonathan Odell
(1955)
Laura
as Waldo Lydecker
(1954)
Journey to Italy
as Alexander 'Alex' Joyce
(1954)
King Richard and the Crusaders
as King Richard I
(1954)
Witness to Murder
as Albert Richter
(1953)
Call Me Madam
as Cosmo Constantine
(1953)
(1952)
Ivanhoe
as De Bois-Guilbert
(1952)
Assignment: Paris
as Nicholas Strang
(1951)
The Light Touch
as Felix Guignol
(1951)
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
as J F Noble
(1950)
All About Eve
as Addison DeWitt
(1950)
Black Jack
as Mike Alexander
(1949)
Samson and Delilah
as The Saran of Gaza
(1949)
The Fan
as Lord Robert Darlington
(1947)
Lured
as Robert Fleming
(1947)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
as Miles Fairley
(1947)
Forever Amber
as King Charles II
(1947)
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
as Georges Duroy
(1946)
The Strange Woman
as John Evered
(1946)
A Scandal in Paris
as Eugéne François Vidocq
(1945)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
as Lord Henry Wotton
(1945)
Hangover Square
as Dr. Allan Middleton
(1945)
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
as Harry Melville Quincey
(1944)
The Lodger
as Inspector John Warwick
(1944)
Action in Arabia
as Michael Gordon
(1944)
Summer Storm
as Fedja Michailovitch Petroff
(1943)
This Land Is Mine
as George Lambert
(1943)
Quiet Please, Murder
as Jim Fleg
(1943)
Appointment in Berlin
as Keith Wilson
(1943)
They Came to Blow Up America
as Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
(1943)
Paris After Dark
as Dr. Andre Marbel
(1942)
The Black Swan
as Captain Billy Leech
(1942)
The Falcon Takes Over
as Gay Lawrence
(1942)
The Falcon's Brother
as Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence
(1942)
Tales of Manhattan
as Williams
(1942)
A Date with the Falcon
as Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
(1942)
Her Cardboard Lover
as Tony Barling
(1942)
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
as Sir Arthur Blake
(1942)
The Moon and Sixpence
as Charles Strickland
(1941)
Man Hunt
as Major Quive-Smith
(1941)
Sundown
as Major A.L. Coombes
(1941)
The Gay Falcon
as Gay Laurence / The Falcon
(1941)
Rage in Heaven
as Ward Andrews
(1941)
The Saint In Palm Springs
as Simon Templar
(1940)
Rebecca
as Jack Favell
(1940)
Foreign Correspondent
as Scott ffolliott
(1940)
The Son of Monte Cristo
as Gurko Lanen
(1940)
The House of the Seven Gables
as Jaffrey Pyncheon
(1940)
Bitter Sweet
as Baron Von Tranisch
(1940)
Green Hell
as Forrester
(1940)
The Saint's Double Trouble
as Simon Templar
(1940)
The Saint Takes Over
as Simon Templar
(1939)
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
as Franz Schlager
(1939)
Allegheny Uprising
as Captain Swanson
(1939)
The Saint Strikes Back
as Simon Templar
(1939)
Nurse Edith Cavell
as Capt. Heinrichs
(1939)
The Saint in London
as Simon Templar
(1939)
So This Is London
as Dr. de Reseke
(1939)
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
as Eric Norvel
(1939)
The Outsider
as Anton Ragatzy
(1938)
International Settlement
as Del Forbes
(1938)
Four Men and a Prayer
as Wyatt Leigh
(1937)
Slave Ship
as Lefty
(1937)
Love Is News
as Count Andre de Guyon
(1937)
Lancer Spy
as Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
(1937)
The Lady Escapes
as Rene Blanchard
(1936)
Things to Come
as Celestial Body (uncredited)
(1936)
Lloyd's of London
as Everett Stacy
(1936)
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
as Indifference - a God
(1936)
Dishonour Bright
as Lisle
(1934)
Love, Life and Laughter
as Singer in Public Bar
Crew
(1954)