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