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)

1990

Death In Hollywood

1977

Disney's Greatest Villains as Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)

1976

Bob Hope's World of Comedy as Self (archive footage)

1973

Psychomania as Shadwell

1972

Endless Night as Andrew Lippincott
Doomwatch as The Admiral

1970

The Kremlin Letter as Warlock
The Night of the Assassin as General Downes

1969

The Girl from Rio as Sir Masius
The Best House in London as Sir Francis Leybourne
The Body Stealers as Gen. Armstrong
The Candy Man as Sidney Carter

1968

Laura as Waldo Lydecker
One Step to Hell as Captain Walter Phillips

1967

The Jungle Book as Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
Good Times as Mordicus
Warning Shot as Calvin York

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
The Rogues as Leonard Carvel
A Shot in the Dark as Benjamin Ballon
The Golden Head as Basil Palmer
Dark Purpose as Raymond Fontaine
F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck as Principe Makowski

1963

The Cracksman as Guv'nor
Cairo as The Major
Ecco as Narrator

1962

In Search of the Castaways as Thomas Ayerton
Operation Snatch as Maj. Hobson

1961

The Rebel as Sir Charles Broward
Rendezvous as Kellermann
Five Golden Hours as Mr. Bing

1960

Checkmate as Richard Gilmore
Village of the Damned as Gordon Zellaby
The Last Voyage as Capitaine Robert Adams
Cone of Silence as Sir Arnold Hobbes
A Touch of Larceny as Sir Charles Holland
Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons as Henri Landru
World by Night

1955

The 20th Century Fox Hour as Waldo Lydecker
Screen Director's Playhouse as Charles Ferris
Moonfleet as Lord James Ashwood
The King's Thief as King Charles II
Jupiter's Darling as Fabius Maximus
Laura as Waldo Lydecker
The Scarlet Coat as Dr. Jonathan Odell

1954

Studio 57 as Dr. Grissom
The Jimmy Durante Show as Self
Journey to Italy as Alex Joyce
King Richard and the Crusaders as King Richard I
Witness to Murder as Albert Richter
The Stranger Came Home ... (Novel)

1953

General Electric Theater as Dr. Grissom
Call Me Madam as Cosmo Constantine
A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family as Self

1952

Ivanhoe as Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert
Assignment: Paris as Nicholas Strang

1951

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as John York
The Light Touch as Felix Guignol
I Can Get It for You Wholesale as J F Noble

1950

What's My Line? as Self - Panelist
The Bob Hope Show as Self
All About Eve as Addison DeWitt
Black Jack as Mike Alexander

1949

Samson and Delilah as The Saran of Gaza
The Fan as Lord Robert Darlington

1948

The Ed Sullivan Show as Self

1947

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir as Miles Fairley
Lured as Robert Fleming
Forever Amber as King Charles II
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

The Picture of Dorian Gray as Lord Henry Wotton
Hangover Square as Dr. Allan Middleton
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

This Land Is Mine as George Lambert
Quiet Please, Murder as Jim Fleg
Appointment in Berlin as Keith Wilson
They Came to Blow Up America as Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
Paris After Dark as Dr. Andre Marbel

1942

The Black Swan as Captain Billy Leech
Tales of Manhattan as Williams
A Date with the Falcon as Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
The Falcon Takes Over as Gay Lawrence
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake as Sir Arthur Blake
The Moon and Sixpence as Charles Strickland
The Falcon's Brother as Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence
Her Cardboard Lover as Tony Barling

1941

Man Hunt as Major Quive-Smith
Sundown as Major A.L. Coombes
The Gay Falcon as Gay Laurence / The Falcon
Rage in Heaven as Ward Andrews
The Saint In Palm Springs as Simon Templar

1940

Rebecca as Jack Favell
Foreign Correspondent as Scott ffolliott
Bitter Sweet as Baron Von Tranisch
The Son of Monte Cristo as Gurko Lanen
The House of the Seven Gables as Jaffrey Pyncheon
The Saint Takes Over as Simon Templar
The Saint's Double Trouble as Simon Templar
Green Hell as Forrester

1939

Nurse Edith Cavell as Capt. Heinrichs
Confessions of a Nazi Spy as Franz Schlager
The Outsider as Anton Ragatzy
Allegheny Uprising as Captain Swanson
The Saint Strikes Back as Simon Templar
Mr. Moto's Last Warning as Eric Norvel
So This Is London as Dr. de Reseke
The Saint in London as Simon Templar

1938

International Settlement as Del Forbes
Four Men and a Prayer as Wyatt Leigh

1937

Slave Ship as Lefty
Lancer Spy as Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
Love Is News as Count Andre de Guyon
The Lady Escapes as Rene Blanchard

1936

Things to Come as Celestial Body (uncredited)
Lloyd's of London as Everett Stacy
Dishonour Bright as Lisle
The Man Who Could Work Miracles as Indifference - a God

1934

Love, Life and Laughter as Singer in Public Bar (uncredited)