George Sanders

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1906-07-03

Deathday 1972-04-25 (65 years old)

Place of Birth Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]

George Sanders

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.

Known For

Actor

2013
Footsteps on the Ceiling

as Addison DeWitt (archive footage)

1996
Ingrid Bergman Remembered

as Self (archive footage)

1986
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

as Self (from All About Eve [1950]) (archive footage)

1973
Psychomania

as Shadwell

1972
Endless Night

as Andrew Lippincott

1972
Doomwatch

as The Admiral

1970
The Night of the Assassin

as General Downes

1970
1969
The Body Stealers

as Gen. Armstrong

1969
The Girl from Rio

as Sir Masius

1969
The Candy Man

as Sidney Carter

1969
The Best House in London

as Sir Francis Leybourne

1968
One Step to Hell

as Captain Walter Phillips

1968
Laura

as Waldo Lydecker

1967
The Jungle Book

as Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)

1967
Good Times

as Mordicus

1967
Warning Shot

as Calvin York

1966
Trunk to Cairo

as Professor Schlieben

1966
Mission: Impossible

as Armand Anderssarian

1966
Batman

as Mister Freeze

1964
F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck

as Principe Makowski

1964
A Shot in the Dark

as Benjamin Ballon

1964
Dark Purpose

as Raymond Fontaine

1964
Daniel Boone

as Col. Roger Barr

1964
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

as G. Emory Partridge

1964
The Rogues

as Leonard Carvel

1963
Ecco

as Narrator

1963
Cairo

as The Major

1963
The Cracksman

as Guv'nor

1962
In Search of the Castaways

as Thomas Ayerton

1962
Operation Snatch

as Maj. Hobson

1961
Rendezvous

as Kellermann

1961
The Rebel

as Sir Charles Broward

1961
Five Golden Hours

as Mr. Bing

1960
Village of the Damned

as Gordon Zellaby

1960
Cone of Silence

as Sir Arnold Hobbes

1960
1960
The Last Voyage

as Capitaine Robert Adams

1960
A Touch of Larceny

as Sir Charles Holland

1960
Checkmate

as Richard Gilmore

1959
Solomon and Sheba

as Adonijah

1959
1958
From the Earth to the Moon

as Stuyvesant Nicholl

1958
The Whole Truth

as Carliss

1957
The Seventh Sin

as Tim Waddington

1956
Death of a Scoundrel

as Clementi Sabourin

1956
The Bitter Waters

as Charles Ferris

1956
That Certain Feeling

as Larry Larkin

1956
The Dream

as Baron

1956
While the City Sleeps

as Mark Loving

1956
1955
Laura

as Waldo Lydecker

1955
The King's Thief

as King Charles II

1955
The Scarlet Coat

as Dr. Jonathan Odell

1955
Moonfleet

as Lord James Ashwood

1955
Jupiter's Darling

as Fabius Maximus

1955
Screen Director's Playhouse

as Charles Ferris

1954
Journey to Italy

as Alexander 'Alex' Joyce

1954
1954
Witness to Murder

as Albert Richter

1953
Call Me Madam

as Cosmo Constantine

1953
1953
General Electric Theater

as William Clark

1953
General Electric Theater

as Major Watkins

1952
Assignment: Paris

as Nicholas Strang

1952
Ivanhoe

as De Bois-Guilbert

1951
The Light Touch

as Felix Guignol

1950
Black Jack

as Mike Alexander

1950
All About Eve

as Addison DeWitt

1950
1950
What's My Line?

as Self - Panelist

1950
What's My Line?

as Self - Mystery Guest

1949
Samson and Delilah

as The Saran of Gaza

1949
The Fan

as Lord Robert Darlington

1947
Forever Amber

as King Charles II

1947
Lured

as Robert Fleming

1947
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

as Miles Fairley

1947
1946
The Strange Woman

as John Evered

1946
A Scandal in Paris

as Eugéne François Vidocq

1945
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

as Harry Melville Quincey

1945
The Picture of Dorian Gray

as Lord Henry Wotton

1945
Hangover Square

as Dr. Allan Middleton

1944
Summer Storm

as Fedja Michailovitch Petroff

1944
Action in Arabia

as Michael Gordon

1944
The Lodger

as Inspector John Warwick

1943
Paris After Dark

as Dr. Andre Marbel

1943
Appointment in Berlin

as Keith Wilson

1943
This Land Is Mine

as George Lambert

1943
They Came to Blow Up America

as Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter

1943
1942
The Black Swan

as Captain Billy Leech

1942
The Moon and Sixpence

as Charles Strickland

1942
The Falcon's Brother

as Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence

1942
Tales of Manhattan

as Williams

1942
Her Cardboard Lover

as Tony Barling

1942
The Falcon Takes Over

as Gay Lawrence

1942
A Date with the Falcon

as Gay Lawrence / The Falcon

1941
Sundown

as Major A.L. Coombes

1941
The Gay Falcon

as Gay Laurence / The Falcon

1941
Man Hunt

as Major Quive-Smith

1941
Rage in Heaven

as Ward Andrews

1941
The Saint In Palm Springs

as Simon Templar

1940
1940
Bitter Sweet

as Baron Von Tranisch

1940
Foreign Correspondent

as Scott ffolliott

1940
The Saint Takes Over

as Simon Templar

1940
The House of the Seven Gables

as Jaffrey Pyncheon

1940
Rebecca

as Jack Favell

1940
1940
Green Hell

as Forrester

1939
Allegheny Uprising

as Captain Swanson

1939
Nurse Edith Cavell

as Capt. Heinrichs

1939
The Saint in London

as Simon Templar

1939
Confessions of a Nazi Spy

as Franz Schlager

1939
The Saint Strikes Back

as Simon Templar

1939
So This Is London

as Dr. de Reseke

1939
The Outsider

as Anton Ragatzy

1939
1938
Four Men and a Prayer

as Wyatt Leigh

1938
1937
Lancer Spy

as Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce

1937
The Lady Escapes

as Rene Blanchard

1937
Slave Ship

as Lefty

1937
Love Is News

as Count Andre de Guyon

1936
Lloyd's of London

as Everett Stacy

1936
1936
The Man Who Could Work Miracles

as Indifference - a God

1936
Things to Come

as Celestial Body (uncredited)

1934
Love, Life and Laughter

as Singer in Public Bar

Writer