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