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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]

Bio

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

Footsteps on the Ceiling

Addison DeWitt (archive footage)

0.0

2013

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

Self (archive footage)

6.7

1996

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

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

7.5

1986

Disney's Greatest Villains

Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)

0.0

1977

Psychomania

Shadwell

5.6

1973

Endless Night

Andrew Lippincott

6.2

1972

Doomwatch

The Admiral

5.9

1972

The Night of the Assassin

General Downes

0.0

1970

The Kremlin Letter

Warlock

6.1

1970

The Body Stealers

Gen. Armstrong

4.9

1969

The Girl from Rio

Sir Masius

4.6

1969

The Candy Man

Sidney Carter

4.6

1969

The Best House in London

Sir Francis Leybourne

3.6

1969

One Step to Hell

Captain Walter Phillips

6.0

1968

Laura

Waldo Lydecker

4.5

1968

The Jungle Book

Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)

7.3

1967

Good Times

Mordicus

5.3

1967

Warning Shot

Calvin York

6.5

1967

The Quiller Memorandum

Gibbs

5.7

1966

Mission: Impossible

Armand Anderssarian · (1 episode)

7.6

1966

Trunk to Cairo

Professor Schlieben

5.0

1966

Batman

Mister Freeze · (2 episodes)

7.3

1966

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

The Banker

5.8

1965

Daniel Boone

Col. Roger Barr · (1 episode)

6.9

1964

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

G. Emory Partridge · (1 episode)

7.2

1964

The Rogues

Leonard Carvel · (1 episode)

7.2

1964

The Golden Head

5.3

1964

F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck

Principe Makowski

5.0

1964

A Shot in the Dark

Benjamin Ballon

7.2

1964

Dark Purpose

Raymond Fontaine

5.3

1964

Ecco

Narrator

5.0

1963

Cairo

The Major

4.7

1963

The Cracksman

Guv'nor

6.3

1963

In Search of the Castaways

Thomas Ayerton

6.4

1962

Operation Snatch

Maj. Hobson

0.0

1962

Rendezvous

Kellermann

6.2

1961

The Rebel

Sir Charles Broward

7.8

1961

Five Golden Hours

Mr. Bing

6.0

1961

Checkmate

Richard Gilmore · (1 episode)

4.1

1960

Village of the Damned

Gordon Zellaby

7.2

1960

Cone of Silence

Sir Arnold Hobbes

6.7

1960

Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons

Henri Landru

6.1

1960

The Last Voyage

Capitaine Robert Adams

6.2

1960

A Touch of Larceny

Sir Charles Holland

5.8

1960

Solomon and Sheba

Adonijah

6.4

1959

That Kind of Woman

A.L.

5.9

1959

From the Earth to the Moon

Stuyvesant Nicholl

5.2

1958

The Whole Truth

Carliss

5.8

1958

The Seventh Sin

Tim Waddington

5.3

1957

The George Sanders Mystery Theater

Host · (13 episodes)

0.0

1957

Death of a Scoundrel

Clementi Sabourin

6.0

1956

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Self · (1 episode)

5.3

1956

The Bitter Waters

Charles Ferris

0.0

1956

That Certain Feeling

1953

General Electric Theater

William Clark · (1 episode)

6.0

1953

General Electric Theater

Major Watkins · (1 episode)

6.0

1953

Assignment: Paris

Nicholas Strang

5.5

1952

Ivanhoe

De Bois-Guilbert

6.8

1952

The Light Touch

Felix Guignol

Lord Robert Darlington

6.0

1949

The Ed Sullivan Show

Self · (1 episode)

6.6

1948

Forever Amber

King Charles II

6.1

1947

Lured

Robert Fleming

6.3

1947

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Miles Fairley

7.5

1947

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

Georges Duroy

6.4

1947

The Strange Woman

John Evered

6.3

1946

A Scandal in Paris

Eugéne François Vidocq

6.3

1946

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

Harry Melville Quincey

6.3

1945

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Lord Henry Wotton

7.1

1945

Hangover Square

Dr. Allan Middleton

6.8

1945

Summer Storm

Fedja Michailovitch Petroff

5.1

1944

Action in Arabia

Michael Gordon

5.9

1944

The Lodger

Inspector John Warwick

6.3

1944

Paris After Dark

Dr. Andre Marbel

5.6

1943

Appointment in Berlin

Keith Wilson

6.4

1943

This Land Is Mine

George Lambert

7.1

1943

They Came to Blow Up America

Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter

6.2

1943

Quiet Please, Murder

Jim Fleg

6.8

1943

The Black Swan

Captain Billy Leech

6.4

1942

The Moon and Sixpence

Charles Strickland

6.3

1942

The Falcon's Brother

Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence

6.4

1942

Tales of Manhattan

Williams

6.3

1942

Her Cardboard Lover

Tony Barling

5.1

1942

The Falcon Takes Over

Gay Lawrence

6.0

1942

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

Sir Arthur Blake

7.2

1942

A Date with the Falcon

Gay Lawrence / The Falcon

6.5

1942

Sundown

Major A.L. Coombes

5.4

1941

The Gay Falcon

Gay Laurence / The Falcon

6.2

1941

Man Hunt

Major Quive-Smith

7.0

1941

Rage in Heaven

Ward Andrews

6.2

1941

The Saint In Palm Springs

Simon Templar

5.7

1941

The Son of Monte Cristo

Gurko Lanen

6.2

1940

Bitter Sweet

Baron Von Tranisch

5.8

1940

Foreign Correspondent

Scott ffolliott

7.0

1940

The Saint Takes Over

Simon Templar

6.3

1940

The House of the Seven Gables

Jaffrey Pyncheon

6.9

1940

Rebecca

Jack Favell

7.9

1940

The Saint's Double Trouble

Simon Templar

5.6

1940

Green Hell

Forrester

4.0

1940

Allegheny Uprising

Captain Swanson

5.6

1939

Nurse Edith Cavell

Capt. Heinrichs

6.4

1939

The Saint in London

Simon Templar

5.5

1939

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

Franz Schlager

6.1

1939

The Saint Strikes Back

Simon Templar

5.6

1939

So This Is London

Dr. de Reseke

0.0

1939

The Outsider

Anton Ragatzy

5.0

1939

Mr. Moto's Last Warning

Eric Norvel

5.8

1939

Four Men and a Prayer

Wyatt Leigh

6.3

1938

International Settlement

Del Forbes

5.0

1938

Lancer Spy

Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce

6.0

1937

The Lady Escapes

Rene Blanchard

0.0

1937

Slave Ship

Lefty

4.8

1937

Love Is News

Count Andre de Guyon

6.0

1937

Lloyd's of London

Everett Stacy

7.2

1936

Dishonour Bright

Lisle

0.0

1936

The Man Who Could Work Miracles

Indifference - a God

5.7

1936

Things to Come

Celestial Body (uncredited)

6.4

1936

Love, Life and Laughter

Singer in Public Bar

7.5

1934