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.
Known For
Acting
(2013)
Footsteps on the Ceiling
as Addison DeWitt (archive footage)
(1996)
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
as Self (archive footage)
(1990)
(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 Candy Man
as Sidney Carter
(1969)
The Best House in London
as Sir Francis Leybourne
(1969)
The Body Stealers
as Gen. Armstrong
(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)
(1964)
Dark Purpose
as Raymond Fontaine
(1964)
F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck
as Principe Makowski
(1963)
The Cracksman
as Guv'nor
(1963)
Cairo
as The Major
(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)
The Last Voyage
as Capitaine Robert Adams
(1960)
Cone of Silence
as Sir Arnold Hobbes
(1960)
A Touch of Larceny
as Sir Charles Holland
(1960)
(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)
Never Say Goodbye
as Victor
(1956)
While the City Sleeps
as Mark Loving
(1956)
Death of a Scoundrel
as Clementi Sabourin
(1956)
That Certain Feeling
as Larry Larkin
(1956)
The Bitter Waters
as Charles Ferris
(1956)
The Dream
as Baron
(1955)
The King's Thief
as King Charles II
(1955)
Moonfleet
as Lord James Ashwood
(1955)
The Scarlet Coat
as Dr. Jonathan Odell
(1955)
Jupiter's Darling
as Fabius Maximus
(1955)
Laura
as Waldo Lydecker
(1954)
King Richard and the Crusaders
as King Richard I
(1954)
Journey to Italy
as Alexander 'Alex' Joyce
(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)
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
as Georges Duroy
(1947)
Forever Amber
as King Charles II
(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)
Summer Storm
as Fedja Michailovitch Petroff
(1944)
Action in Arabia
as Michael Gordon
(1943)
This Land Is Mine
as George Lambert
(1943)
Appointment in Berlin
as Keith Wilson
(1943)
Quiet Please, Murder
as Jim Fleg
(1943)
Paris After Dark
as Dr. Andre Marbel
(1943)
They Came to Blow Up America
as Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
(1942)
The Black Swan
as Captain Billy Leech
(1942)
Tales of Manhattan
as Williams
(1942)
The Falcon Takes Over
as Gay Lawrence
(1942)
The Falcon's Brother
as Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence
(1942)
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
as Sir Arthur Blake
(1942)
The Moon and Sixpence
as Charles Strickland
(1942)
A Date with the Falcon
as Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
(1942)
Her Cardboard Lover
as Tony Barling
(1941)
Man Hunt
as Major Quive-Smith
(1941)
The Gay Falcon
as Gay Laurence / The Falcon
(1941)
Sundown
as Major A.L. Coombes
(1941)
The Saint In Palm Springs
as Simon Templar
(1941)
Rage in Heaven
as Ward Andrews
(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)
The Saint's Double Trouble
as Simon Templar
(1940)
Green Hell
as Forrester
(1940)
The Saint Takes Over
as Simon Templar
(1939)
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
as Franz Schlager
(1939)
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
as Eric Norvel
(1939)
The Saint in London
as Simon Templar
(1939)
Nurse Edith Cavell
as Capt. Heinrichs
(1939)
The Saint Strikes Back
as Simon Templar
(1939)
Allegheny Uprising
as Captain Swanson
(1939)
So This Is London
as Dr. de Reseke
(1939)
The Outsider
as Anton Ragatzy
(1938)
Four Men and a Prayer
as Wyatt Leigh
(1938)
International Settlement
as Del Forbes
(1937)
Love Is News
as Count Andre de Guyon
(1937)
Slave Ship
as Lefty
(1937)
The Lady Escapes
as Rene Blanchard
(1937)
Lancer Spy
as Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
(1936)
Things to Come
as Celestial Body (uncredited)
(1936)
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
as Indifference - a God
(1936)
Lloyd's of London
as Everett Stacy
(1936)
Dishonour Bright
as Lisle
(1934)
Love, Life and Laughter
as Singer in Public Bar
Crew
(1954)