George Sanders
Born: 1906-07-03 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Died: 1972-04-25
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2013
- Footsteps on the Ceiling as Addison DeWitt (archive footage)
1996
- Ingrid Bergman Remembered as Self (archive footage)
1977
- Disney's Greatest Villains as Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)
1973
- Psychomania as Shadwell
1972
- Doomwatch as The Admiral
- Endless Night as Andrew Lippincott
1970
- The Kremlin Letter as Warlock
- The Night of the Assassin as General Downes
1969
- The Best House in London as Sir Francis Leybourne
- The Candy Man as Sidney Carter
- The Body Stealers as Gen. Armstrong
- The Girl from Rio as Sir Masius
1968
- Laura as Waldo Lydecker
- One Step to Hell as Captain Walter Phillips
1967
- The Jungle Book as Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
- Warning Shot as Calvin York
- Good Times as Mordicus
1966
- Batman as Mister Freeze
- Mission: Impossible as Armand Anderssarian
- The Quiller Memorandum as Gibbs
- Trunk to Cairo as Professor Schlieben
1965
- The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders as The Banker
1964
- Daniel Boone as Col. Roger Barr
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as G. Emory Partridge
- Dark Purpose as Raymond Fontaine
- The Rogues as Leonard Carvel
- The Golden Head
- A Shot in the Dark as Benjamin Ballon
- F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck as Principe Makowski
1963
- Cairo as The Major
- Ecco as Narrator
- The Cracksman as Guv'nor
1962
- Operation Snatch as Maj. Hobson
- In Search of the Castaways as Thomas Ayerton
1961
- The Rebel as Sir Charles Broward
- Five Golden Hours as Mr. Bing
- Rendezvous as Kellermann
1960
- Checkmate as Richard Gilmore
- Village of the Damned as Gordon Zellaby
- The Last Voyage as Capitaine Robert Adams
- A Touch of Larceny as Sir Charles Holland
- World by Night
- Cone of Silence as Sir Arnold Hobbes
- Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons as Henri Landru
1959
- Solomon and Sheba as Adonijah
- That Kind of Woman as A.L.
1958
- The Whole Truth as Carliss
- From the Earth to the Moon as Stuyvesant Nicholl
1957
- The Seventh Sin as Tim Waddington
- The George Sanders Mystery Theater as Host
1956
- The Dream as Baron
- The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self
- Never Say Goodbye as Victor
- The Bitter Waters as Charles Ferris
- That Certain Feeling as Larry Larkin
- While the City Sleeps as Mark Loving
- Death of a Scoundrel as Clementi Sabourin
1955
- The 20th Century Fox Hour as Waldo Lydecker
- Laura as Waldo Lydecker
- Moonfleet as Lord James Ashwood
- Screen Director's Playhouse as Charles Ferris
- The Scarlet Coat as Dr. Jonathan Odell
- Jupiter's Darling as Fabius Maximus
- The King's Thief as King Charles II
1954
- Studio 57 as Dr. Grissom
- Witness to Murder as Albert Richter
- King Richard and the Crusaders as King Richard I
- The Stranger Came Home ... (Novel)
- The Jimmy Durante Show as Self
- Journey to Italy as Alexander 'Alex' Joyce
1953
- Call Me Madam as Cosmo Constantine
- General Electric Theater as Dr. Grissom
- A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family as Self
1952
- Ivanhoe as Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert
- Assignment: Paris as Nicholas Strang
1951
- The Light Touch as Felix Guignol
- I Can Get It for You Wholesale as J F Noble
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as John York
1950
- What's My Line? as Self - Panelist
- The Bob Hope Show as Self
- Black Jack as Mike Alexander
- All About Eve as Addison DeWitt
1949
- The Fan as Lord Robert Darlington
- Samson and Delilah as The Saran of Gaza
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
1947
- Forever Amber as King Charles II
- Lured as Robert Fleming
- The Ghost and Mrs. Muir as Miles Fairley
- The Private Affairs of Bel Ami as Georges Duroy
1946
- The Strange Woman as John Evered
- A Scandal in Paris as Eugéne François Vidocq
1945
- Hangover Square as Dr. Allan Middleton
- The Picture of Dorian Gray as Lord Henry Wotton
- The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry as Harry Melville Quincey
1944
- The Lodger as Inspector John Warwick
- Summer Storm as Fedja Michailovitch Petroff
- Action in Arabia as Michael Gordon
1943
- Quiet Please, Murder as Jim Fleg
- This Land Is Mine as George Lambert
- They Came to Blow Up America as Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
- Appointment in Berlin as Keith Wilson
- Paris After Dark as Dr. Andre Marbel
1942
- The Falcon's Brother as Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence
- The Falcon Takes Over as Gay Lawrence
- Tales of Manhattan as Williams
- The Moon and Sixpence as Charles Strickland
- Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake as Sir Arthur Blake
- The Black Swan as Captain Billy Leech
- A Date with the Falcon as Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
- Her Cardboard Lover as Tony Barling
1941
- Sundown as Major A.L. Coombes
- Man Hunt as Major Quive-Smith
- Rage in Heaven as Ward Andrews
- The Saint In Palm Springs as Simon Templar
- The Gay Falcon as Gay Laurence / The Falcon
1940
- Bitter Sweet as Baron Von Tranisch
- Foreign Correspondent as Scott ffolliott
- Rebecca as Jack Favell
- Green Hell as Forrester
- The House of the Seven Gables as Jaffrey Pyncheon
- The Son of Monte Cristo as Gurko Lanen
- The Saint's Double Trouble as Simon Templar
- The Saint Takes Over as Simon Templar
1939
- The Outsider as Anton Ragatzy
- Allegheny Uprising as Captain Swanson
- The Saint in London as Simon Templar
- Confessions of a Nazi Spy as Franz Schlager
- Nurse Edith Cavell as Capt. Heinrichs
- The Saint Strikes Back as Simon Templar
- Mr. Moto's Last Warning as Eric Norvel
- So This Is London as Dr. de Reseke
1938
- Four Men and a Prayer as Wyatt Leigh
- International Settlement as Del Forbes
1937
- Lancer Spy as Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
- Love Is News as Count Andre de Guyon
- The Lady Escapes as Rene Blanchard
- Slave Ship as Lefty
1936
- Dishonour Bright as Lisle
- Things to Come as Celestial Body (uncredited)
- Lloyd's of London as Everett Stacy
- The Man Who Could Work Miracles as Indifference - a God
1934
- Love, Life and Laughter as Singer in Public Bar (uncredited)