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Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 3, 1906
Died
April 25, 1972
Place of Birth
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
George Sanders
0.9 Popularity
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
0.0
Addison DeWitt (archive footage)
Footsteps on the Ceiling
2013
6.7
Self (archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
1996
0.0
Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)
Disney's Greatest Villains
1977
5.5
Shadwell
Psychomania
1973
6.0
Andrew Lippincott
Endless Night
1972
6.0
The Admiral
Doomwatch
1972
0.0
General Downes
The Night of the Assassin
1970
6.0
Warlock
The Kremlin Letter
1970
3.6
Sir Francis Leybourne
The Best House in London
1969
4.7
Gen. Armstrong
The Body Stealers
1969
Credits
Footsteps on the Ceiling
as Addison DeWitt (archive footage)
2013
0.0
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
as Self (archive footage)
1996
6.7
Disney's Greatest Villains
as Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)
1977
0.0
Psychomania
as Shadwell
1973
5.5
Endless Night
as Andrew Lippincott
1972
6.0
Doomwatch
as The Admiral
1972
6.0
The Night of the Assassin
as General Downes
1970
0.0
The Kremlin Letter
as Warlock
1970
6.0
The Best House in London
as Sir Francis Leybourne
1969
3.6
The Body Stealers
as Gen. Armstrong
1969
4.7
The Girl from Rio
as Sir Masius
1969
4.7
The Candy Man
as Sidney Carter
1969
4.6
One Step to Hell
as Captain Walter Phillips
1968
6.0
Laura
as Waldo Lydecker
1968
4.5
The Jungle Book
as Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
1967
7.3
Good Times
as Mordicus
1967
5.1
Warning Shot
as Calvin York
1967
6.3
The Quiller Memorandum
as Gibbs
1966
5.8
Mission: Impossible
as Armand Anderssarian
1966
7.6
Trunk to Cairo
as Professor Schlieben
1966
5.0
Batman
as Mister Freeze
1966
7.3
Batman
as Mister Freeze (uncredited)
1966
7.3
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
as The Banker
1965
5.4
Daniel Boone
as Col. Roger Barr
1964
7.0
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as G. Emory Partridge
1964
7.1
The Rogues
as Leonard Carvel
1964
7.2
The Golden Head
1964
5.3
F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck
as Principe Makowski
1964
5.0
A Shot in the Dark
as Benjamin Ballon
1964
7.2
Dark Purpose
as Raymond Fontaine
1964
5.3
Ecco
as Narrator
1963
4.3
Cairo
as The Major
1963
4.8
The Cracksman
as Guv'nor
1963
6.3
In Search of the Castaways
as Thomas Ayerton
1962
6.5
Operation Snatch
as Maj. Hobson
1962
0.0
Rendezvous
as Kellermann
1961
6.2
The Rebel
as Sir Charles Broward
1961
7.8
Five Golden Hours
as Mr. Bing
1961
6.0
Checkmate
as Richard Gilmore
1960
4.1
Village of the Damned
as Gordon Zellaby
1960
7.2
Cone of Silence
as Sir Arnold Hobbes
1960
6.7
World by Night
1960
0.0
Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
as Henri Landru
1960
6.1
The Last Voyage
as Capitaine Robert Adams
1960
6.2
A Touch of Larceny
as Sir Charles Holland
1960
5.9
Solomon and Sheba
as Adonijah
1959
6.4
That Kind of Woman
as A.L.
1959
5.9
From the Earth to the Moon
as Stuyvesant Nicholl
1958
5.1
The Whole Truth
as Carliss
1958
5.7
The Seventh Sin
as Tim Waddington
1957
4.8
🎬
The George Sanders Mystery Theater
as Host
1957
0.0
Death of a Scoundrel
as Clementi Sabourin
1956
5.8
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self
1956
6.0
🎬
The Bitter Waters
as Charles Ferris
1956
0.0
That Certain Feeling
as Larry Larkin
1956
5.3
🎬
The Dream
as Baron
1956
0.0
While the City Sleeps
as Mark Loving
1956
6.9
Never Say Goodbye
as Victor
1956
6.5
Laura
as Waldo Lydecker
1955
10.0
The 20th Century Fox Hour
as Waldo Lydecker
1955
5.4
Screen Director's Playhouse
as Charles Ferris
1955
6.5
The King's Thief
as King Charles II
1955
6.3
The Scarlet Coat
as Dr. Jonathan Odell
1955
6.4
Moonfleet
as Lord James Ashwood
1955
6.5
Jupiter's Darling
as Fabius Maximus
1955
4.3
🎬
The Jimmy Durante Show
as Self
1954
0.0
Studio 57
as Dr. Grissom
1954
0.0
Journey to Italy
as Alexander 'Alex' Joyce
1954
7.3
King Richard and the Crusaders
as King Richard I
1954
6.3
Witness to Murder
as Albert Richter
1954
6.2
A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family
as Self
1953
10.0
Call Me Madam
as Cosmo Constantine
1953
6.2
General Electric Theater
as Dr. Grissom
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as William Clark
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as Major Watkins
1953
6.4
Assignment: Paris
as Nicholas Strang
1952
5.5
Ivanhoe
as Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert
1952
6.8
The Light Touch
as Felix Guignol
1951
6.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as John York
1951
7.2
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
as J F Noble
1951
5.8
Black Jack
as Mike Alexander
1950
5.8
All About Eve
as Addison DeWitt
1950
8.1
The Bob Hope Show
as Self
1950
7.0
What's My Line?
as Self - Panelist
1950
6.9
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
1950
6.9
Samson and Delilah
as The Saran of Gaza
1949
6.5
The Fan
as Lord Robert Darlington
1949
5.7
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
Forever Amber
as King Charles II
1947
6.0
Lured
as Robert Fleming
1947
6.3
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
as Miles Fairley
1947
7.5
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
as Georges Duroy
1947
6.1
The Strange Woman
as John Evered
1946
6.1
A Scandal in Paris
as Eugéne François Vidocq
1946
6.4
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
as Harry Melville Quincey
1945
6.2
The Picture of Dorian Gray
as Lord Henry Wotton
1945
7.1
Hangover Square
as Dr. Allan Middleton
1945
6.9
Summer Storm
as Fedja Michailovitch Petroff
1944
5.3
Action in Arabia
as Michael Gordon
1944
5.9
The Lodger
as Inspector John Warwick
1944
6.4
Paris After Dark
as Dr. Andre Marbel
1943
5.6
Appointment in Berlin
as Keith Wilson
1943
6.7
This Land Is Mine
as George Lambert
1943
7.2
They Came to Blow Up America
as Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
1943
6.2
Quiet Please, Murder
as Jim Fleg
1943
6.8
The Black Swan
as Captain Billy Leech
1942
6.5
The Moon and Sixpence
as Charles Strickland
1942
6.1
The Falcon's Brother
as Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence
1942
6.3
Tales of Manhattan
as Williams
1942
6.2
Her Cardboard Lover
as Tony Barling
1942
4.4
The Falcon Takes Over
as Gay Lawrence
1942
6.2
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
as Sir Arthur Blake
1942
7.2
A Date with the Falcon
as Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
1942
6.5
Sundown
as Major A.L. Coombes
1941
5.4
The Gay Falcon
as Gay Laurence / The Falcon
1941
6.3
Man Hunt
as Major Quive-Smith
1941
6.9
Rage in Heaven
as Ward Andrews
1941
6.3
The Saint In Palm Springs
as Simon Templar
1941
5.8
The Son of Monte Cristo
as Gurko Lanen
1940
5.9
Bitter Sweet
as Baron Von Tranisch
1940
5.8
Foreign Correspondent
as Scott ffolliott
1940
7.0
The Saint Takes Over
as Simon Templar
1940
6.4
The House of the Seven Gables
as Jaffrey Pyncheon
1940
6.9
Rebecca
as Jack Favell
1940
7.9
Green Hell
as Forrester
1940
3.9
The Saint's Double Trouble
as Simon Templar
1940
5.7
Allegheny Uprising
as Captain Swanson
1939
5.6
Nurse Edith Cavell
as Capt. Heinrichs
1939
6.4
The Saint in London
as Simon Templar
1939
5.6
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
as Franz Schlager
1939
6.0
The Saint Strikes Back
as Simon Templar
1939
5.6
So This Is London
as Dr. de Reseke
1939
0.0
The Outsider
as Anton Ragatzy
1939
5.0
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
as Eric Norvel
1939
5.5
Four Men and a Prayer
as Wyatt Leigh
1938
6.3
International Settlement
as Del Forbes
1938
5.6
Lancer Spy
as Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
1937
5.7
The Lady Escapes
as Rene Blanchard
1937
0.0
Slave Ship
as Lefty
1937
4.5
Love Is News
as Count Andre de Guyon
1937
6.0
Lloyd's of London
as Everett Stacy
1936
7.2
Dishonour Bright
as Lisle
1936
5.0
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
as Indifference - a God
1936
5.8
Things to Come
as Celestial Body (uncredited)
1936
6.5
Love, Life and Laughter
as Singer in Public Bar (uncredited)
1934
7.5