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
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)
- 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
- 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
- Rendezvous as Kellermann
- The Rebel as Sir Charles Broward
- 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
- A Touch of Larceny as Sir Charles Holland
- Cone of Silence as Sir Arnold Hobbes
- Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons as Henri Landru
- World by Night
1959
- Solomon and Sheba as Adonijah
- That Kind of Woman as A.L.
1958
- From the Earth to the Moon as Stuyvesant Nicholl
- The Whole Truth as Carliss
1957
- The Seventh Sin as Tim Waddington
- The George Sanders Mystery Theater as Host
1956
- The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self
- While the City Sleeps as Mark Loving
- That Certain Feeling as Larry Larkin
- Never Say Goodbye as Victor
- Death of a Scoundrel as Clementi Sabourin
- The Dream as Baron
- The Bitter Waters as Charles Ferris
1955
- The 20th Century Fox Hour as Waldo Lydecker
- Screen Director's Playhouse as Charles Ferris
- The King's Thief as King Charles II
- Moonfleet as Lord James Ashwood
- The Scarlet Coat as Dr. Jonathan Odell
- Jupiter's Darling as Fabius Maximus
- Laura as Waldo Lydecker
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
- The Stranger Came Home ... (Novel)
- Witness to Murder as Albert Richter
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
- 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
- Forever Amber as King Charles II
- Lured as Robert Fleming
- 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
- Action in Arabia as Michael Gordon
- The Lodger as Inspector John Warwick
- Summer Storm as Fedja Michailovitch Petroff
1943
- This Land Is Mine as George Lambert
- Quiet Please, Murder as Jim Fleg
- They Came to Blow Up America as Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
- Paris After Dark as Dr. Andre Marbel
- Appointment in Berlin as Keith Wilson
1942
- The Black Swan as Captain Billy Leech
- Tales of Manhattan as Williams
- The Falcon Takes Over as Gay Lawrence
- The Moon and Sixpence as Charles Strickland
- Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake as Sir Arthur Blake
- The Falcon's Brother as Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence
- A Date with the Falcon as Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
- Her Cardboard Lover as Tony Barling
1941
- Man Hunt as Major Quive-Smith
- Rage in Heaven as Ward Andrews
- The Gay Falcon as Gay Laurence / The Falcon
- The Saint In Palm Springs as Simon Templar
- Sundown as Major A.L. Coombes
1940
- Rebecca as Jack Favell
- Foreign Correspondent as Scott ffolliott
- Green Hell as Forrester
- The Saint Takes Over as Simon Templar
- The Son of Monte Cristo as Gurko Lanen
- The House of the Seven Gables as Jaffrey Pyncheon
- Bitter Sweet as Baron Von Tranisch
- The Saint's Double Trouble as Simon Templar
1939
- Confessions of a Nazi Spy as Franz Schlager
- Nurse Edith Cavell as Capt. Heinrichs
- 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 Outsider as Anton Ragatzy
- The Saint in London as Simon Templar
1938
- Four Men and a Prayer as Wyatt Leigh
- International Settlement as Del Forbes
1937
- Love Is News as Count Andre de Guyon
- Lancer Spy as Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
- Slave Ship as Lefty
- The Lady Escapes as Rene Blanchard
1936
- Things to Come as Celestial Body (uncredited)
- Lloyd's of London as Everett Stacy
- The Man Who Could Work Miracles as Indifference - a God
- Dishonour Bright as Lisle
1934
- Love, Life and Laughter as Singer in Public Bar (uncredited)