George Sanders
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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
Credits
The Jungle Book (1967)
as Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
Rebecca (1940)
as Jack Favell
All About Eve (1950)
as Addison DeWitt
A Shot in the Dark (1964)
as Benjamin Ballon
Samson and Delilah (1949)
as The Saran of Gaza
The Girl from Rio (1969)
as Sir Masius
Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976)
as (archive footage)
Solomon and Sheba (1959)
as Adonijah
Village of the Damned (1960)
as Gordon Zellaby
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
as Lord Henry Wotton
The Black Swan (1942)
as Captain Billy Leech
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
as Miles Fairley
That Certain Feeling (1956)
as Larry Larkin
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
as Scott ffolliott
A Touch of Larceny (1960)
as Sir Charles Holland
While the City Sleeps (1956)
as Mark Loving
Ivanhoe (1952)
as Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert
King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)
as King Richard I
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942)
as Sir Arthur Blake
Lured (1947)
as Robert Fleming
The King's Thief (1955)
as King Charles II
Green Hell (1940)
as Forrester
Death of a Scoundrel (1956)
as Clementi Sabourin
Journey to Italy (1954)
as Alex Joyce
Rage in Heaven (1941)
as Ward Andrews
Things to Come (1936)
as Celestial Body (uncredited)
Jupiter's Darling (1955)
as Fabius Maximus
The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
as Gibbs
The Lodger (1944)
as Inspector John Warwick
This Land Is Mine (1943)
as George Lambert
Moonfleet (1955)
as Lord James Ashwood
Les messages de Fritz Lang (2003)
Actor
Endless Night (1972)
as Andrew Lippincott
Rendezvous (1961)
as Kellermann
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965)
as The Banker
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
as Franz Schlager
A Scandal in Paris (1946)
as Eugéne François Vidocq
Forever Amber (1947)
as King Charles II
The Gay Falcon (1941)
as Gay Laurence / The Falcon
The Falcon's Brother (1942)
as Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence
Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)
as Capt. Heinrichs
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947)
as Georges Duroy
Disney's Greatest Villains (1977)
as Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)
Footsteps on the Ceiling (2013)
as Addison DeWitt (archive footage)
In Search of the Castaways (1962)
as Thomas Ayerton
Action in Arabia (1944)
as Michael Gordon
The Strange Woman (1946)
as John Evered
Love Is News (1937)
as Count Andre de Guyon
The Last Voyage (1960)
as Capitaine Robert Adams
Never Say Goodbye (1956)
as Victor
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)
as Harry Melville Quincey
Allegheny Uprising (1939)
as Captain Swanson
Warning Shot (1967)
as Calvin York
From the Earth to the Moon (1958)
as Stuyvesant Nicholl
Witness to Murder (1954)
as Albert Richter
Lloyd's of London (1936)
as Everett Stacy
Psychomania (1973)
as Shadwell
The Kremlin Letter (1970)
as Warlock
Love, Life and Laughter (1934)
as Singer in Public Bar (uncredited)
Assignment: Paris (1952)
as Nicholas Strang
Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1939)
as Eric Norvel
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
as Williams
The Rebel (1961)
as Sir Charles Broward
That Kind of Woman (1959)
as A.L.
Man Hunt (1941)
as Major Quive-Smith
Summer Storm (1944)
as Fedja Michailovitch Petroff
The Falcon Takes Over (1942)
as Gay Lawrence
So This Is London (1939)
as Dr. de Reseke
Trunk to Cairo (1966)
as Professor Schlieben
Four Men and a Prayer (1938)
as Wyatt Leigh
The Scarlet Coat (1955)
as Dr. Jonathan Odell
Doomwatch (1972)
as The Admiral
The Saint Strikes Back (1939)
as Simon Templar
I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1951)
as J F Noble
Slave Ship (1937)
as Lefty
Lancer Spy (1937)
as Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
The House of the Seven Gables (1940)
as Jaffrey Pyncheon
The Saint In Palm Springs (1941)
as Simon Templar
The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)
as Indifference - a God
The Body Stealers (1969)
as Gen. Armstrong
The Best House in London (1969)
as Sir Francis Leybourne
A Date with the Falcon (1942)
as Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
Hangover Square (1945)
as Dr. Allan Middleton
They Came to Blow Up America (1943)
as Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
The Moon and Sixpence (1942)
as Charles Strickland
The Saint Takes Over (1940)
as Simon Templar
The Son of Monte Cristo (1940)
as Gurko Lanen
Call Me Madam (1953)
as Cosmo Constantine
Bitter Sweet (1940)
as Baron Von Tranisch
Her Cardboard Lover (1942)
as Tony Barling
The Saint in London (1939)
as Simon Templar
Sundown (1941)
as Major A.L. Coombes
The Seventh Sin (1957)
as Tim Waddington
Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons (1960)
as Henri Landru
Ingrid Bergman Remembered (1996)
as Self (archive footage)
The Lady Escapes (1937)
as Rene Blanchard
The Light Touch (1951)
as Felix Guignol
The Fan (1949)
as Lord Robert Darlington
The Saint's Double Trouble (1940)
as Simon Templar
International Settlement (1938)
as Del Forbes
Appointment in Berlin (1943)
as Keith Wilson
Five Golden Hours (1961)
as Mr. Bing
The Night of the Assassin (1970)
as General Downes
One Step to Hell (1968)
as Captain Walter Phillips
The Whole Truth (1958)
as Carliss
World by Night (1960)
Actor
Good Times (1967)
as Mordicus
The Cracksman (1963)
as Guv'nor
Cone of Silence (1960)
as Sir Arnold Hobbes
Operation Snatch (1962)
as Maj. Hobson
Ecco (1963)
as Narrator
Death In Hollywood (1990)
as Self (archive footage)
Quiet Please, Murder (1943)
as Jim Fleg
Dishonour Bright (1936)
as Lisle
Cairo (1963)
as The Major
A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family (1953)
as Self
F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck (1964)
as Principe Makowski
Black Jack (1950)
as Mike Alexander
Laura (1955)
as Waldo Lydecker
The Bitter Waters (1956)
as Charles Ferris
The Outsider (1939)
as Anton Ragatzy
Laura (1968)
as Waldo Lydecker
The Candy Man (1969)
as Sidney Carter
Dark Purpose (1964)
as Raymond Fontaine
Paris After Dark (1943)
as Dr. Andre Marbel
The Dream (1956)
as Baron
The Golden Head (1964)
as Basil Palmer