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