George Sanders
Born
July 3, 1906
Died
April 25, 1972 (65 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
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.
Footsteps on the Ceiling
Addison DeWitt (archive footage)
2013
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Self (archive footage)
1996
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Self (from All About Eve [1950]) (archive footage)
1986
Disney's Greatest Villains
Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)
1977
Psychomania
Shadwell
1973
Endless Night
Andrew Lippincott
1972
Doomwatch
The Admiral
1972
The Night of the Assassin
General Downes
1970
The Kremlin Letter
Warlock
1970
The Body Stealers
Gen. Armstrong
1969
The Girl from Rio
Sir Masius
1969
The Candy Man
Sidney Carter
1969
The Best House in London
Sir Francis Leybourne
1969
One Step to Hell
Captain Walter Phillips
1968
Laura
Waldo Lydecker
1968
The Jungle Book
Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
1967
Good Times
Mordicus
1967
Warning Shot
Calvin York
1967
The Quiller Memorandum
Gibbs
1966
Mission: Impossible
Armand Anderssarian · (1 episode)
1966
Trunk to Cairo
Professor Schlieben
1966
Batman
Mister Freeze · (2 episodes)
1966
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
The Banker
1965
Daniel Boone
Col. Roger Barr · (1 episode)
1964
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
G. Emory Partridge · (1 episode)
1964
The Rogues
Leonard Carvel · (1 episode)
1964
The Golden Head
1964
F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck
Principe Makowski
1964
A Shot in the Dark
Benjamin Ballon
1964
Dark Purpose
Raymond Fontaine
1964
Ecco
Narrator
1963
Cairo
The Major
1963
The Cracksman
Guv'nor
1963
In Search of the Castaways
Thomas Ayerton
1962
Operation Snatch
Maj. Hobson
1962
Rendezvous
Kellermann
1961
The Rebel
Sir Charles Broward
1961
Five Golden Hours
Mr. Bing
1961
Checkmate
Richard Gilmore · (1 episode)
1960
Village of the Damned
Gordon Zellaby
1960
Cone of Silence
Sir Arnold Hobbes
1960
Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
Henri Landru
1960
The Last Voyage
Capitaine Robert Adams
1960
A Touch of Larceny
Sir Charles Holland
1960
Solomon and Sheba
Adonijah
1959
That Kind of Woman
A.L.
1959
From the Earth to the Moon
Stuyvesant Nicholl
1958
The Whole Truth
Carliss
1958
The Seventh Sin
Tim Waddington
1957
The George Sanders Mystery Theater
Host · (13 episodes)
1957
Death of a Scoundrel
Clementi Sabourin
1956
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self · (1 episode)
1956
The Bitter Waters
Charles Ferris
1956
That Certain Feeling
Larry Larkin
1956
The Dream
Baron
1956
While the City Sleeps
Mark Loving
1956
Never Say Goodbye
Victor
1956
Laura
Waldo Lydecker
1955
Screen Director's Playhouse
Charles Ferris · (1 episode)
1955
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Waldo Lydecker · (1 episode)
1955
The King's Thief
King Charles II
1955
The Scarlet Coat
Dr. Jonathan Odell
1955
Moonfleet
Lord James Ashwood
1955
Jupiter's Darling
Fabius Maximus
1955
The Jimmy Durante Show
Self · (1 episode)
1954
Studio 57
Dr. Grissom · (1 episode)
1954
Journey to Italy
Alexander 'Alex' Joyce
1954
King Richard and the Crusaders
King Richard I
1954
Witness to Murder
Albert Richter
1954
A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family
Self
1953
Call Me Madam
Cosmo Constantine
1953
General Electric Theater
Dr. Grissom · (1 episode)
1953
General Electric Theater
William Clark · (1 episode)
1953
General Electric Theater
Major Watkins · (1 episode)
1953
Assignment: Paris
Nicholas Strang
1952
Ivanhoe
De Bois-Guilbert
1952
The Light Touch
Felix Guignol
1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
John York · (1 episode)
1951
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
J F Noble
1951
Black Jack
Mike Alexander
1950
All About Eve
Addison DeWitt
1950
The Bob Hope Show
Self · (2 episodes)
1950
What's My Line?
Self - Panelist · (1 episode)
1950
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest · (1 episode)
1950
Samson and Delilah
The Saran of Gaza
1949
The Fan
Lord Robert Darlington
1949
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self · (1 episode)
1948
Forever Amber
King Charles II
1947
Lured
Robert Fleming
1947
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Miles Fairley
1947
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
Georges Duroy
1947
The Strange Woman
John Evered
1946
A Scandal in Paris
Eugéne François Vidocq
1946
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
Harry Melville Quincey
1945
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lord Henry Wotton
1945
Hangover Square
Dr. Allan Middleton
1945
Summer Storm
Fedja Michailovitch Petroff
1944
Action in Arabia
Michael Gordon
1944
The Lodger
Inspector John Warwick
1944
Paris After Dark
Dr. Andre Marbel
1943
Appointment in Berlin
Keith Wilson
1943
This Land Is Mine
George Lambert
1943
They Came to Blow Up America
Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
1943
Quiet Please, Murder
Jim Fleg
1943
The Black Swan
Captain Billy Leech
1942
The Moon and Sixpence
Charles Strickland
1942
The Falcon's Brother
Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence
1942
Tales of Manhattan
Williams
1942
Her Cardboard Lover
Tony Barling
1942
The Falcon Takes Over
Gay Lawrence
1942
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Sir Arthur Blake
1942
A Date with the Falcon
Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
1942
Sundown
Major A.L. Coombes
1941
The Gay Falcon
Gay Laurence / The Falcon
1941
Man Hunt
Major Quive-Smith
1941
Rage in Heaven
Ward Andrews
1941
The Saint In Palm Springs
Simon Templar
1941
The Son of Monte Cristo
Gurko Lanen
1940
Bitter Sweet
Baron Von Tranisch
1940
Foreign Correspondent
Scott ffolliott
1940
The Saint Takes Over
Simon Templar
1940
The House of the Seven Gables
Jaffrey Pyncheon
1940
Rebecca
Jack Favell
1940
The Saint's Double Trouble
Simon Templar
1940
Green Hell
Forrester
1940
Allegheny Uprising
Captain Swanson
1939
Nurse Edith Cavell
Capt. Heinrichs
1939
The Saint in London
Simon Templar
1939
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Franz Schlager
1939
The Saint Strikes Back
Simon Templar
1939
So This Is London
Dr. de Reseke
1939
The Outsider
Anton Ragatzy
1939
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
Eric Norvel
1939
Four Men and a Prayer
Wyatt Leigh
1938
International Settlement
Del Forbes
1938
Lancer Spy
Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
1937
The Lady Escapes
Rene Blanchard
1937
Slave Ship
Lefty
1937
Love Is News
Count Andre de Guyon
1937
Lloyd's of London
Everett Stacy
1936
Dishonour Bright
Lisle
1936
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Indifference - a God
1936
Things to Come
Celestial Body (uncredited)
1936
Love, Life and Laughter
Singer in Public Bar
1934