About

Known credits:
125
Birthday:
1906-07-03
Place of birth:
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Website:
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George Sanders

Overview

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 Actor Addison DeWitt (archive footage) N/A
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1996 Ingrid Bergman Remembered Actor Self (archive footage) 59
Average
1986 Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend Actor Self (from All About Eve [1950]) (archive footage) 59
Average
1973 Psychomania Actor Shadwell 58
Average
1972 Endless Night Actor Andrew Lippincott 59
Average
1972 Doomwatch Actor The Admiral 58
Average
1970 The Night of the Assassin Actor General Downes N/A
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1970 The Kremlin Letter Actor Warlock 59
Average
1969 The Body Stealers Actor Gen. Armstrong 58
Average
1969 The Girl from Rio Actor Sir Masius 58
Average
1969 The Candy Man Actor Sidney Carter 58
Average
1969 The Best House in London Actor Sir Francis Leybourne 58
Average
1968 One Step to Hell Actor Captain Walter Phillips 59
Average
1968 Laura Actor Waldo Lydecker 58
Average
1967 The Jungle Book Actor Shere Khan the Tiger (voice) 71
Good
1967 Good Times Actor Mordicus 58
Average
1967 Warning Shot Actor Calvin York 59
Average
1966 The Quiller Memorandum Actor Gibbs 58
Average
1966 Trunk to Cairo Actor Professor Schlieben 59
Average
1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders Actor The Banker 59
Average
1964 The Golden Head Actor 58
Average
1964 F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck Actor Principe Makowski 59
Average
1964 A Shot in the Dark Actor Benjamin Ballon 65
Fair
1964 Dark Purpose Actor Raymond Fontaine 59
Average
1963 Ecco Actor Narrator 58
Average
1963 Cairo Actor The Major 58
Average
1963 The Cracksman Actor Guv'nor 59
Average
1962 In Search of the Castaways Actor Thomas Ayerton 59
Average
1962 Operation Snatch Actor Maj. Hobson N/A
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1961 Rendezvous Actor Kellermann 59
Average
1961 The Rebel Actor Sir Charles Broward 59
Average
1961 Five Golden Hours Actor Mr. Bing 59
Average
1960 Village of the Damned Actor Gordon Zellaby 64
Fair
1960 Cone of Silence Actor Sir Arnold Hobbes 59
Average
1960 Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons Actor Henri Landru 59
Average
1960 The Last Voyage Actor Capitaine Robert Adams 59
Average
1960 A Touch of Larceny Actor Sir Charles Holland 59
Average
1959 Solomon and Sheba Actor Adonijah 59
Average
1959 That Kind of Woman Actor A.L. 59
Average
1958 From the Earth to the Moon Actor Stuyvesant Nicholl 58
Average
1958 The Whole Truth Actor Carliss 59
Average
1957 The Seventh Sin Actor Tim Waddington 58
Average
1957 The George Sanders Mystery Theater Actor Host N/A
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1956 Death of a Scoundrel Actor Clementi Sabourin 59
Average
1956 The Bitter Waters Actor Charles Ferris N/A
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1956 That Certain Feeling Actor Larry Larkin 58
Average
1956 The Dream Actor Baron N/A
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1956 While the City Sleeps Actor Mark Loving 60
Fair
1956 Never Say Goodbye Actor Victor 59
Average
1955 Laura Actor Waldo Lydecker 59
Average
1955 The King's Thief Actor King Charles II 59
Average
1955 The Scarlet Coat Actor Dr. Jonathan Odell 59
Average
1955 Moonfleet Actor Lord James Ashwood 59
Average
1955 Jupiter's Darling Actor Fabius Maximus 58
Average
1954 Journey to Italy Actor Alexander 'Alex' Joyce 64
Fair
1954 King Richard and the Crusaders Actor King Richard I 59
Average
1954 Witness to Murder Actor Albert Richter 59
Average
1953 A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family Actor Self 59
Average
1953 Call Me Madam Actor Cosmo Constantine 59
Average
1952 Assignment: Paris Actor Nicholas Strang 59
Average
1952 Ivanhoe Actor De Bois-Guilbert 61
Fair
1951 The Light Touch Actor Felix Guignol 58
Average
1951 I Can Get It for You Wholesale Actor J F Noble 59
Average
1950 Black Jack Actor Mike Alexander 58
Average
1950 All About Eve Actor Addison DeWitt 75
Good
1949 Samson and Delilah Actor The Saran of Gaza 60
Fair
1949 The Fan Actor Lord Robert Darlington 58
Average
1947 Forever Amber Actor King Charles II 59
Average
1947 Lured Actor Robert Fleming 59
Average
1947 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir Actor Miles Fairley 64
Fair
1947 The Private Affairs of Bel Ami Actor Georges Duroy 59
Average
1946 The Strange Woman Actor John Evered 59
Average
1946 A Scandal in Paris Actor Eugéne François Vidocq 59
Average
1945 The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry Actor Harry Melville Quincey 59
Average
1945 The Picture of Dorian Gray Actor Lord Henry Wotton 63
Fair
1945 Hangover Square Actor Dr. Allan Middleton 60
Fair
1944 Summer Storm Actor Fedja Michailovitch Petroff 58
Average
1944 Action in Arabia Actor Michael Gordon 59
Average
1944 The Lodger Actor Inspector John Warwick 59
Average
1943 Paris After Dark Actor Dr. Andre Marbel 59
Average
1943 Appointment in Berlin Actor Keith Wilson 59
Average
1943 This Land Is Mine Actor George Lambert 60
Fair
1943 They Came to Blow Up America Actor Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter 59
Average
1943 Quiet Please, Murder Actor Jim Fleg 59
Average
1942 The Black Swan Actor Captain Billy Leech 59
Average
1942 The Moon and Sixpence Actor Charles Strickland 59
Average
1942 The Falcon's Brother Actor Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence 59
Average
1942 Tales of Manhattan Actor Williams 59
Average
1942 Her Cardboard Lover Actor Tony Barling 58
Average
1942 The Falcon Takes Over Actor Gay Lawrence 59
Average
1942 Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake Actor Sir Arthur Blake 59
Average
1942 A Date with the Falcon Actor Gay Lawrence / The Falcon 59
Average
1941 Sundown Actor Major A.L. Coombes 58
Average
1941 The Gay Falcon Actor Gay Laurence / The Falcon 59
Average
1941 Man Hunt Actor Major Quive-Smith 61
Fair
1941 Rage in Heaven Actor Ward Andrews 59
Average
1941 The Saint In Palm Springs Actor Simon Templar 58
Average
1940 The Son of Monte Cristo Actor Gurko Lanen 58
Average
1940 Bitter Sweet Actor Baron Von Tranisch 59
Average
1940 Foreign Correspondent Actor Scott ffolliott 63
Fair
1940 The Saint Takes Over Actor Simon Templar 59
Average
1940 The House of the Seven Gables Actor Jaffrey Pyncheon 59
Average
1940 Rebecca Actor Jack Favell 74
Good
1940 The Saint's Double Trouble Actor Simon Templar 58
Average
1940 Green Hell Actor Forrester 58
Average
1939 Allegheny Uprising Actor Captain Swanson 58
Average
1939 Nurse Edith Cavell Actor Capt. Heinrichs 59
Average
1939 The Saint in London Actor Simon Templar 58
Average
1939 Confessions of a Nazi Spy Actor Franz Schlager 59
Average
1939 The Saint Strikes Back Actor Simon Templar 58
Average
1939 So This Is London Actor Dr. de Reseke N/A
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1939 The Outsider Actor Anton Ragatzy 58
Average
1939 Mr. Moto's Last Warning Actor Eric Norvel 58
Average
1938 Four Men and a Prayer Actor Wyatt Leigh 59
Average
1938 International Settlement Actor Del Forbes 59
Average
1937 Lancer Spy Actor Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce 58
Average
1937 The Lady Escapes Actor Rene Blanchard N/A
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1937 Slave Ship Actor Lefty 58
Average
1937 Love Is News Actor Count Andre de Guyon 59
Average
1936 Lloyd's of London Actor Everett Stacy 59
Average
1936 Dishonour Bright Actor Lisle N/A
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1936 The Man Who Could Work Miracles Actor Indifference - a God 58
Average
1936 Things to Come Actor Celestial Body (uncredited) 60
Fair
1934 Love, Life and Laughter Actor Singer in Public Bar 59
Average

Writing
1954 The Stranger Came Home Writing Novel 58
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