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George Sanders

Born 1906-07-03

Died 1972-04-25

📍 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]

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 142

Footsteps on the Ceiling

as Addison DeWitt (archive footage)

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

as Self (archive footage)

Death In Hollywood

Disney's Greatest Villains

as Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)

as Andrew Lippincott

The Night of the Assassin

as General Downes

The Kremlin Letter

The Best House in London

as Sir Francis Leybourne

The Body Stealers

as Gen. Armstrong

The Girl from Rio

as Sidney Carter

One Step to Hell

as Captain Walter Phillips

as Waldo Lydecker

The Jungle Book

as Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)

The Quiller Memorandum

Mission: Impossible

as Armand Anderssarian

as Professor Schlieben

as Mister Freeze

as Mister Freeze (uncredited)

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

as Col. Roger Barr

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

as G. Emory Partridge

as Leonard Carvel

The Golden Head

as Basil Palmer

F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck

as Principe Makowski

A Shot in the Dark

as Benjamin Ballon

as Raymond Fontaine

In Search of the Castaways

as Thomas Ayerton

Operation Snatch

as Sir Charles Broward

Five Golden Hours

as Richard Gilmore

Village of the Damned

as Gordon Zellaby

Cone of Silence

as Sir Arnold Hobbes

Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons

as Henri Landru

The Last Voyage

as Capitaine Robert Adams

A Touch of Larceny

as Sir Charles Holland

Solomon and Sheba

That Kind of Woman

From the Earth to the Moon

as Stuyvesant Nicholl

The Whole Truth

The Seventh Sin

as Tim Waddington

Death of a Scoundrel

as Clementi Sabourin

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

That Certain Feeling

as Larry Larkin

While the City Sleeps

Never Say Goodbye

as Waldo Lydecker

Screen Director's Playhouse

as Charles Ferris

The 20th Century Fox Hour

as Waldo Lydecker

The King's Thief

as King Charles II

The Scarlet Coat

as Dr. Jonathan Odell

as Lord James Ashwood

Jupiter's Darling

as Fabius Maximus

Journey to Italy

King Richard and the Crusaders

as King Richard I

Witness to Murder

as Albert Richter

A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family

as Cosmo Constantine

General Electric Theater

General Electric Theater

as William Clark

General Electric Theater

as Major Watkins

Assignment: Paris

as Nicholas Strang

as Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert

The Light Touch

as Felix Guignol

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

I Can Get It for You Wholesale

as Mike Alexander

as Addison DeWitt

The Bob Hope Show

What's My Line?

as Self - Panelist

What's My Line?

as Self - Mystery Guest

Samson and Delilah

as The Saran of Gaza

as Lord Robert Darlington

The Ed Sullivan Show

as King Charles II

as Robert Fleming

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

as Miles Fairley

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

as Georges Duroy

The Strange Woman

A Scandal in Paris

as Eugéne François Vidocq

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

as Harry Melville Quincey

The Picture of Dorian Gray

as Lord Henry Wotton

Hangover Square

as Dr. Allan Middleton

as Fedja Michailovitch Petroff

Action in Arabia

as Michael Gordon

as Inspector John Warwick

Paris After Dark

as Dr. Andre Marbel

Appointment in Berlin

as Keith Wilson

This Land Is Mine

as George Lambert

They Came to Blow Up America

as Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter

Quiet Please, Murder

as Captain Billy Leech

The Moon and Sixpence

as Charles Strickland

The Falcon's Brother

as Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence

Tales of Manhattan

Her Cardboard Lover

as Tony Barling

The Falcon Takes Over

as Gay Lawrence

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

as Sir Arthur Blake

A Date with the Falcon

as Gay Lawrence / The Falcon

as Major A.L. Coombes

as Gay Laurence / The Falcon

as Major Quive-Smith

as Ward Andrews

The Saint In Palm Springs

as Simon Templar

The Son of Monte Cristo

as Baron Von Tranisch

Foreign Correspondent

as Scott ffolliott

The Saint Takes Over

as Simon Templar

The House of the Seven Gables

as Jaffrey Pyncheon

The Saint's Double Trouble

as Simon Templar

Allegheny Uprising

as Captain Swanson

Nurse Edith Cavell

as Capt. Heinrichs

The Saint in London

as Simon Templar

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

as Franz Schlager

The Saint Strikes Back

as Simon Templar

So This Is London

as Dr. de Reseke

as Anton Ragatzy

Mr. Moto's Last Warning

Four Men and a Prayer

International Settlement

as Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce

The Lady Escapes

as Rene Blanchard

as Count Andre de Guyon

Lloyd's of London

as Everett Stacy

Dishonour Bright

The Man Who Could Work Miracles

as Indifference - a God

as Celestial Body (uncredited)

Love, Life and Laughter

as Singer in Public Bar (uncredited)