George Sanders
Acting • Born 1906-07-03 – Died 1972-04-25
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.
Filmography
145 credits
Rebecca
Movie • 1940
Jack Favell
A Shot in the Dark
Movie • 1964
Benjamin Ballon
All About Eve
Movie • 1950
Addison DeWitt
Things to Come
Movie • 1936
Celestial Body (uncredited)
Journey to Italy
Movie • 1954
Alexander 'Alex' Joyce
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Movie • 1996
Self (archive footage)
Lured
Movie • 1947
Robert Fleming
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Movie • 1947
Miles Fairley
Man Hunt
Movie • 1941
Major Quive-Smith
Village of the Damned
Movie • 1960
Gordon Zellaby
Rage in Heaven
Movie • 1941
Ward Andrews
Foreign Correspondent
Movie • 1940
Scott ffolliott
The Jungle Book
Movie • 1967
Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
Ivanhoe
Movie • 1952
Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert
The Strange Woman
Movie • 1946
John Evered
Tales of Manhattan
Movie • 1942
Williams
In Search of the Castaways
Movie • 1962
Thomas Ayerton
Endless Night
Movie • 1972
Andrew Lippincott
The House of the Seven Gables
Movie • 1940
Jaffrey Pyncheon
The Lodger
Movie • 1944
Inspector John Warwick
Hangover Square
Movie • 1945
Dr. Allan Middleton
Quiet Please, Murder
Movie • 1943
Jim Fleg
The Black Swan
Movie • 1942
Captain Billy Leech
Moonfleet
Movie • 1955
Lord James Ashwood
Samson and Delilah
Movie • 1949
The Saran of Gaza
Solomon and Sheba
Movie • 1959
Adonijah
While the City Sleeps
Movie • 1956
Mark Loving
The Girl from Rio
Movie • 1969
Sir Masius
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
Movie • 1945
Harry Melville Quincey
Witness to Murder
Movie • 1954
Albert Richter
A Date with the Falcon
Movie • 1942
Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
Allegheny Uprising
Movie • 1939
Captain Swanson
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Movie • 1942
Sir Arthur Blake
The Last Voyage
Movie • 1960
Capitaine Robert Adams
Death of a Scoundrel
Movie • 1956
Clementi Sabourin
The Falcon Takes Over
Movie • 1942
Gay Lawrence
The Falcon's Brother
Movie • 1942
Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence
The Gay Falcon
Movie • 1941
Gay Laurence / The Falcon
From the Earth to the Moon
Movie • 1958
Stuyvesant Nicholl
This Land Is Mine
Movie • 1943
George Lambert
The Saint's Double Trouble
Movie • 1940
Simon Templar
The Kremlin Letter
Movie • 1970
Warlock
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Movie • 1945
Lord Henry Wotton
Call Me Madam
Movie • 1953
Cosmo Constantine
The Quiller Memorandum
Movie • 1966
Gibbs
The Saint Strikes Back
Movie • 1939
Simon Templar
Psychomania
Movie • 1973
Shadwell
Appointment in Berlin
Movie • 1943
Keith Wilson
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
Movie • 1939
Eric Norvel
The Son of Monte Cristo
Movie • 1940
Gurko Lanen
King Richard and the Crusaders
Movie • 1954
King Richard I
Summer Storm
Movie • 1944
Fedja Michailovitch Petroff
Lloyd's of London
Movie • 1936
Everett Stacy
Five Golden Hours
Movie • 1961
Mr. Bing
The Saint Takes Over
Movie • 1940
Simon Templar
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
Movie • 1951
J F Noble
The Moon and Sixpence
Movie • 1942
Charles Strickland
The Saint in London
Movie • 1939
Simon Templar
The Saint In Palm Springs
Movie • 1941
Simon Templar
Sundown
Movie • 1941
Major A.L. Coombes
Assignment: Paris
Movie • 1952
Nicholas Strang
A Touch of Larceny
Movie • 1960
Sir Charles Holland
Action in Arabia
Movie • 1944
Michael Gordon
Warning Shot
Movie • 1967
Calvin York
The King's Thief
Movie • 1955
King Charles II
Her Cardboard Lover
Movie • 1942
Tony Barling
The Rebel
Movie • 1961
Sir Charles Broward
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
Movie • 1965
The Banker
Bitter Sweet
Movie • 1940
Baron Von Tranisch
Forever Amber
Movie • 1947
King Charles II
Dark Purpose
Movie • 1964
Raymond Fontaine
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Movie • 1939
Franz Schlager
The Night of the Assassin
Movie • 1970
General Downes
Lancer Spy
Movie • 1937
Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
The Body Stealers
Movie • 1969
Gen. Armstrong
Doomwatch
Movie • 1972
The Admiral
Jupiter's Darling
Movie • 1955
Fabius Maximus
Four Men and a Prayer
Movie • 1938
Wyatt Leigh
A Scandal in Paris
Movie • 1946
Eugéne François Vidocq
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
Movie • 1947
Georges Duroy
The Whole Truth
Movie • 1958
Carliss
Laura
Movie • 1968
Waldo Lydecker
The Fan
Movie • 1949
Lord Robert Darlington
Green Hell
Movie • 1940
Forrester
Cairo
Movie • 1963
The Major
That Certain Feeling
Movie • 1956
Larry Larkin
Slave Ship
Movie • 1937
Lefty
Never Say Goodbye
Movie • 1956
Victor
The Seventh Sin
Movie • 1957
Tim Waddington
Trunk to Cairo
Movie • 1966
Professor Schlieben
The Scarlet Coat
Movie • 1955
Dr. Jonathan Odell
The Light Touch
Movie • 1951
Felix Guignol
That Kind of Woman
Movie • 1959
A.L.
One Step to Hell
Movie • 1968
Captain Walter Phillips
Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
Movie • 1960
Henri Landru
International Settlement
Movie • 1938
Del Forbes
Paris After Dark
Movie • 1943
Dr. Andre Marbel
Cone of Silence
Movie • 1960
Sir Arnold Hobbes
Nurse Edith Cavell
Movie • 1939
Capt. Heinrichs
The Best House in London
Movie • 1969
Sir Francis Leybourne
The Cracksman
Movie • 1963
Guv'nor
They Came to Blow Up America
Movie • 1943
Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck
Movie • 1964
Principe Makowski
Dishonour Bright
Movie • 1936
Lisle
Good Times
Movie • 1967
Mordicus
Black Jack
Movie • 1950
Mike Alexander
Love, Life and Laughter
Movie • 1934
Singer in Public Bar (uncredited)
The Lady Escapes
Movie • 1937
Rene Blanchard
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Movie • 1936
Indifference - a God
Ecco
Movie • 1963
Narrator
So This Is London
Movie • 1939
Dr. de Reseke
The Golden Head
Movie • 1964
Basil Palmer
The Outsider
Movie • 1939
Anton Ragatzy
Love Is News
Movie • 1937
Count Andre de Guyon
Operation Snatch
Movie • 1962
Maj. Hobson
The Candy Man
Movie • 1969
Sidney Carter
Rendezvous
Movie • 1961
Kellermann
A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family
Movie • 1953
Self
Laura
Movie • 1955
Waldo Lydecker
Footsteps on the Ceiling
Movie • 2013
Addison DeWitt (archive footage)
The Dream
Movie • 1956
Baron
The Bitter Waters
Movie • 1956
Charles Ferris
Disney's Greatest Villains
Movie • 1977
Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)
World by Night
Movie • 1960
Batman
TV • 1966
Mister Freeze
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Dr. Grissom
Mission: Impossible
TV • 1966
Armand Anderssarian
Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Col. Roger Barr
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
John York
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
TV • 1956
Self
The George Sanders Mystery Theater
TV • 1957
Host
The Jimmy Durante Show
TV • 1954
Self
The Rogues
TV • 1964
Leonard Carvel
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
William Clark
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Major Watkins
The Bob Hope Show
TV • 1950
Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
Checkmate
TV • 1960
Richard Gilmore
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1964
G. Emory Partridge
Screen Director's Playhouse
TV • 1955
Charles Ferris
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self - Panelist
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self - Mystery Guest
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV • 1955
Waldo Lydecker
Studio 57
TV • 1954
Dr. Grissom
Batman
TV • 1966
Mister Freeze (uncredited)