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 as Self (archive footage)
1977
- Disney's Greatest Villains as Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)
1976
- Bob Hope's World of Comedy as (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
- One Step to Hell as Captain Walter Phillips
- Laura as Waldo Lydecker
1967
- The Jungle Book as Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
- Warning Shot as Calvin York
- Good Times as Mordicus
1966
- Mission: Impossible as Armand Anderssarian
- Batman as Mister Freeze
- 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
- F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck as Principe Makowski
- Dark Purpose as Raymond Fontaine
- The Golden Head as Basil Palmer
1963
- Ecco as Narrator
- The Cracksman as Guv'nor
- Cairo as The Major
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
- A Touch of Larceny as Sir Charles Holland
- Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons as Henri Landru
- Cone of Silence as Sir Arnold Hobbes
- 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 George Sanders Mystery Theater as Host
- The Seventh Sin as Tim Waddington
1956
- The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self
- While the City Sleeps as Mark Loving
- Death of a Scoundrel as Clementi Sabourin
- Never Say Goodbye as Victor
- That Certain Feeling as Larry Larkin
- 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 Unholy Four ... (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
- I Can Get It for You Wholesale as J F Noble
- The Light Touch as Felix Guignol
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
- The Private Affairs of Bel Ami as Georges Duroy
- Lured as Robert Fleming
1946
- A Scandal in Paris as Eugéne François Vidocq
- The Strange Woman as John Evered
1945
- The Picture of Dorian Gray as Lord Henry Wotton
- The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry as Harry Melville Quincey
- Hangover Square as Dr. Allan Middleton
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
- They Came to Blow Up America as Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
- Quiet Please, Murder as Jim Fleg
- Appointment in Berlin as Keith Wilson
- Paris After Dark as Dr. Andre Marbel
1942
- The Black Swan as Captain Billy Leech
- Tales of Manhattan as Williams
- 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
- The Falcon Takes Over as 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
- Sundown as Major A.L. Coombes
- The Saint In Palm Springs as Simon Templar
1940
- Rebecca as Jack Favell
- Foreign Correspondent as Scott ffolliott
- Green Hell as Forrester
- The House of the Seven Gables as Jaffrey Pyncheon
- The Son of Monte Cristo as Gurko Lanen
- The Saint Takes Over as Simon Templar
- The Saint's Double Trouble as Simon Templar
- Bitter Sweet as Baron Von Tranisch
1939
- Confessions of a Nazi Spy as Franz Schlager
- Allegheny Uprising as Captain Swanson
- The Saint Strikes Back as Simon Templar
- Mr. Moto's Last Warning as Eric Norvel
- The Saint in London as Simon Templar
- So This Is London as Dr. de Reseke
- Nurse Edith Cavell as Capt. Heinrichs
- The Outsider as Anton Ragatzy
1938
- Four Men and a Prayer as Wyatt Leigh
- International Settlement as Del Forbes
1937
- Love Is News as Count Andre de Guyon
- Slave Ship as Lefty
- Lancer Spy as Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
- 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)