George Sanders
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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
Credits
The Jungle Book (1967)
as Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
All About Eve (1950)
as Addison DeWitt
A Shot in the Dark (1964)
as Benjamin Ballon
Rebecca (1940)
as Jack Favell
Samson and Delilah (1949)
as The Saran of Gaza
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
as Lord Henry Wotton
The Black Swan (1942)
as Captain Billy Leech
Village of the Damned (1960)
as Gordon Zellaby
The Girl from Rio (1969)
as Sir Masius
Solomon and Sheba (1959)
as Adonijah
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
as Miles Fairley
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
as Scott ffolliott
While the City Sleeps (1956)
as Mark Loving
Ivanhoe (1952)
as Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert
Endless Night (1972)
as Andrew Lippincott
This Land Is Mine (1943)
as George Lambert
Journey to Italy (1954)
as Alex Joyce
The King's Thief (1955)
as King Charles II
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)
as Harry Melville Quincey
Forever Amber (1947)
as King Charles II
Things to Come (1936)
as Celestial Body (uncredited)
A Scandal in Paris (1946)
as Eugéne François Vidocq
Lloyd's of London (1936)
as Everett Stacy
The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
as Gibbs
Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976)
as (archive footage)
Never Say Goodbye (1956)
as Victor
Death of a Scoundrel (1956)
as Clementi Sabourin
King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)
as King Richard I
The House of the Seven Gables (1940)
as Jaffrey Pyncheon
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947)
as Georges Duroy
Les messages de Fritz Lang (2003)
Actor
The Last Voyage (1960)
as Capitaine Robert Adams
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
as Franz Schlager
That Kind of Woman (1959)
as A.L.
The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)
as Indifference - a God
Warning Shot (1967)
as Calvin York
Four Men and a Prayer (1938)
as Wyatt Leigh
The Strange Woman (1946)
as John Evered
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
as Williams
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942)
as Sir Arthur Blake
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965)
as The Banker
Moonfleet (1955)
as Lord James Ashwood
The Lodger (1944)
as Inspector John Warwick
The Saint Strikes Back (1939)
as Simon Templar
The Saint Takes Over (1940)
as Simon Templar
Summer Storm (1944)
as Fedja Michailovitch Petroff
A Touch of Larceny (1960)
as Sir Charles Holland
From the Earth to the Moon (1958)
as Stuyvesant Nicholl
Disney's Greatest Villains (1977)
as Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)
The Falcon Takes Over (1942)
as Gay Lawrence
A Date with the Falcon (1942)
as Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
Man Hunt (1941)
as Major Quive-Smith
The Scarlet Coat (1955)
as Dr. Jonathan Odell
The Falcon's Brother (1942)
as Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence
The Son of Monte Cristo (1940)
as Gurko Lanen
The Saint in London (1939)
as Simon Templar
The Kremlin Letter (1970)
as Warlock
Hangover Square (1945)
as Dr. Allan Middleton
Footsteps on the Ceiling (2013)
as Addison DeWitt (archive footage)
Lured (1947)
as Robert Fleming
Love Is News (1937)
as Count Andre de Guyon
Good Times (1967)
as Mordicus
The Best House in London (1969)
as Sir Francis Leybourne
Green Hell (1940)
as Forrester
The Moon and Sixpence (1942)
as Charles Strickland
They Came to Blow Up America (1943)
as Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
Rage in Heaven (1941)
as Ward Andrews
Jupiter's Darling (1955)
as Fabius Maximus
Allegheny Uprising (1939)
as Captain Swanson
Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1939)
as Eric Norvel
Action in Arabia (1944)
as Michael Gordon
Assignment: Paris (1952)
as Nicholas Strang
The Seventh Sin (1957)
as Tim Waddington
Witness to Murder (1954)
as Albert Richter
I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1951)
as J F Noble
The Saint In Palm Springs (1941)
as Simon Templar
In Search of the Castaways (1962)
as Thomas Ayerton
The Fan (1949)
as Lord Robert Darlington
Sundown (1941)
as Major A.L. Coombes
The Saint's Double Trouble (1940)
as Simon Templar
The Light Touch (1951)
as Felix Guignol
Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons (1960)
as Henri Landru
So This Is London (1939)
as Dr. de Reseke
Doomwatch (1972)
as The Admiral
Bitter Sweet (1940)
as Baron Von Tranisch
The Gay Falcon (1941)
as Gay Laurence / The Falcon
Love, Life and Laughter (1934)
as Singer in Public Bar (uncredited)
Call Me Madam (1953)
as Cosmo Constantine
Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)
as Capt. Heinrichs
Rendezvous (1961)
as Kellermann
The Rebel (1961)
as Sir Charles Broward
International Settlement (1938)
as Del Forbes
Her Cardboard Lover (1942)
as Tony Barling
That Certain Feeling (1956)
as Larry Larkin
The Whole Truth (1958)
as Carliss
Death In Hollywood (1990)
as Self (archive footage)
Lancer Spy (1937)
as Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
Ecco (1963)
as Narrator
The Body Stealers (1969)
as Gen. Armstrong
The Cracksman (1963)
as Guv'nor
F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck (1964)
as Principe Makowski
Slave Ship (1937)
as Lefty
Ingrid Bergman Remembered (1996)
as Self (archive footage)
Appointment in Berlin (1943)
as Keith Wilson
Five Golden Hours (1961)
as Mr. Bing
One Step to Hell (1968)
as Captain Walter Phillips
Dark Purpose (1964)
as Raymond Fontaine
Trunk to Cairo (1966)
as Professor Schlieben
A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family (1953)
as Self
Cone of Silence (1960)
as Sir Arnold Hobbes
Laura (1968)
as Waldo Lydecker
World by Night (1960)
Actor
Cairo (1963)
as The Major
Psychomania (1973)
as Shadwell
The Outsider (1939)
as Anton Ragatzy
Operation Snatch (1962)
as Maj. Hobson
Black Jack (1950)
as Mike Alexander
The Night of the Assassin (1970)
as General Downes
Paris After Dark (1943)
as Dr. Andre Marbel
Laura (1955)
as Waldo Lydecker
The Lady Escapes (1937)
as Rene Blanchard
Quiet Please, Murder (1943)
as Jim Fleg
The Golden Head (1964)
as Basil Palmer
The Candy Man (1969)
as Sidney Carter
The Dream (1956)
as Baron
Dishonour Bright (1936)
as Lisle
The Bitter Waters (1956)
as Charles Ferris