George Sanders
Acting
- Born:
- 1906-07-03
- Died:
- 1972-04-25
- Place of birth:
- Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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
Filmography
Footsteps on the Ceiling
Les messages de Fritz Lang
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Death In Hollywood
Disney's Greatest Villains
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
Psychomania
Endless Night
Doomwatch
The Night of the Assassin
The Kremlin Letter
The Best House in London
The Body Stealers
The Girl from Rio
The Candy Man
One Step to Hell
Laura
The Jungle Book
Good Times
Warning Shot
The Quiller Memorandum
Mission: Impossible
Trunk to Cairo
Batman
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
Daniel Boone
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Rogues
The Golden Head
F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck
A Shot in the Dark
Dark Purpose
Ecco
Cairo
The Cracksman
In Search of the Castaways
Operation Snatch
Rendezvous
The Rebel
Five Golden Hours
Checkmate
Village of the Damned
Cone of Silence
World by Night
Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
The Last Voyage
A Touch of Larceny
Solomon and Sheba
That Kind of Woman
From the Earth to the Moon
The Whole Truth
The Seventh Sin
The George Sanders Mystery Theater
Death of a Scoundrel
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
The Bitter Waters
That Certain Feeling
The Dream
While the City Sleeps
Never Say Goodbye
Laura
Screen Director's Playhouse
The 20th Century Fox Hour
The King's Thief
The Scarlet Coat
Moonfleet
Jupiter's Darling
The Jimmy Durante Show
Studio 57
Journey to Italy
King Richard and the Crusaders
Witness to Murder
A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family
Call Me Madam
General Electric Theater
Assignment: Paris
Ivanhoe
The Light Touch
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
Black Jack
All About Eve
The Bob Hope Show
What's My Line?
Samson and Delilah
The Fan
The Ed Sullivan Show
Forever Amber
Lured
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
The Strange Woman
A Scandal in Paris
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Hangover Square
Summer Storm
Action in Arabia
The Lodger
Paris After Dark
Appointment in Berlin
This Land Is Mine
They Came to Blow Up America
Quiet Please, Murder
The Black Swan
The Moon and Sixpence
The Falcon's Brother
Tales of Manhattan
Her Cardboard Lover
The Falcon Takes Over
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
A Date with the Falcon
Sundown
The Gay Falcon
Man Hunt
Rage in Heaven
The Saint In Palm Springs
The Son of Monte Cristo
Bitter Sweet
Foreign Correspondent
The Saint Takes Over
The House of the Seven Gables
Rebecca
The Saint's Double Trouble
Green Hell
Allegheny Uprising
Nurse Edith Cavell
The Saint in London
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
The Saint Strikes Back
So This Is London
The Outsider
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
Four Men and a Prayer
International Settlement
Lancer Spy
The Lady Escapes
Slave Ship
Love Is News
Lloyd's of London
Dishonour Bright
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Things to Come
Love, Life and Laughter