George Sanders

Known For: Acting
Born: July 3, 1906
Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Died: April 25, 1972

George Sanders

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 1…

Filmography

Footsteps on the Ceiling

2013 · Addison DeWitt (archive footage)

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

1996 · Self (archive footage)

Death In Hollywood

1990

Disney's Greatest Villains

1977 · Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)

Bob Hope's World of Comedy

Bob Hope's World of Comedy

1976 · Self (archive footage)

Psychomania

1973 · Shadwell

Endless Night

1972 · Andrew Lippincott

Doomwatch

1972 · The Admiral

The Night of the Assassin

1970 · General Downes

The Kremlin Letter

1970 · Warlock

The Best House in London

1969 · Sir Francis Leybourne

The Body Stealers

1969 · Gen. Armstrong

The Girl from Rio

1969 · Sir Masius

The Candy Man

1969 · Sidney Carter

One Step to Hell

1968 · Captain Walter Phillips

Laura

1968 · Waldo Lydecker

The Jungle Book

1967 · Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)

Good Times

1967 · Mordicus

Warning Shot

1967 · Calvin York

The Quiller Memorandum

1966 · Gibbs

Mission: Impossible

1966 · Armand Anderssarian

Trunk to Cairo

1966 · Professor Schlieben

Batman

1966 · Mister Freeze, Mister Freeze (uncredited)

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

1965 · The Banker

Daniel Boone

1964 · Col. Roger Barr

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

1964 · G. Emory Partridge

The Rogues

1964 · Leonard Carvel

The Golden Head

1964 · Basil Palmer

F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck

1964 · Principe Makowski

A Shot in the Dark

1964 · Benjamin Ballon

Dark Purpose

1964 · Raymond Fontaine

Ecco

1963 · Narrator

Cairo

1963 · The Major

The Cracksman

1963 · Guv'nor

In Search of the Castaways

1962 · Thomas Ayerton

Operation Snatch

1962 · Maj. Hobson

Rendezvous

1961 · Kellermann

The Rebel

1961 · Sir Charles Broward

Five Golden Hours

1961 · Mr. Bing

Checkmate

1960 · Richard Gilmore

Village of the Damned

1960 · Gordon Zellaby

Cone of Silence

1960 · Sir Arnold Hobbes

World by Night

1960

Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons

1960 · Henri Landru

The Last Voyage

1960 · Capitaine Robert Adams

A Touch of Larceny

1960 · Sir Charles Holland

Solomon and Sheba

1959 · Adonijah

That Kind of Woman

1959 · A.L.

From the Earth to the Moon

1958 · Stuyvesant Nicholl

The Whole Truth

1958 · Carliss

The Seventh Sin

1957 · Tim Waddington

The George Sanders Mystery Theater

The George Sanders Mystery Theater

1957 · Host

Death of a Scoundrel

1956 · Clementi Sabourin

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

1956 · Self

The Bitter Waters

The Bitter Waters

1956 · Charles Ferris

That Certain Feeling

1956 · Larry Larkin

The Dream

1956 · Baron

While the City Sleeps

1956 · Mark Loving

Never Say Goodbye

1956 · Victor

Laura

1955 · Waldo Lydecker

Screen Director's Playhouse

1955 · Charles Ferris

The 20th Century Fox Hour

1955 · Waldo Lydecker

The King's Thief

1955 · King Charles II

The Scarlet Coat

1955 · Dr. Jonathan Odell

Moonfleet

1955 · Lord James Ashwood

Jupiter's Darling

1955 · Fabius Maximus

The Jimmy Durante Show

The Jimmy Durante Show

1954 · Self

The Stranger Came Home

1954 · Novel

Studio 57

1954 · Dr. Grissom

Journey to Italy

1954 · Alex Joyce

King Richard and the Crusaders

1954 · King Richard I

Witness to Murder

1954 · Albert Richter

A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family

1953 · Self

Call Me Madam

1953 · Cosmo Constantine

General Electric Theater

1953 · Dr. Grissom, William Clark, Major Watkins

Assignment: Paris

1952 · Nicholas Strang

Ivanhoe

1952 · Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert

The Light Touch

1951 · Felix Guignol

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951 · John York

I Can Get It for You Wholesale

1951 · J F Noble

Black Jack

1950 · Mike Alexander

All About Eve

1950 · Addison DeWitt

The Bob Hope Show

1950 · Self

What's My Line?

1950 · Self

Samson and Delilah

1949 · The Saran of Gaza

The Fan

1949 · Lord Robert Darlington

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948 · Self

Forever Amber

1947 · King Charles II

Lured

1947 · Robert Fleming

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

1947 · Miles Fairley

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

1947 · Georges Duroy

The Strange Woman

1946 · John Evered

A Scandal in Paris

1946 · Eugéne François Vidocq

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

1945 · Harry Melville Quincey

The Picture of Dorian Gray

1945 · Lord Henry Wotton

Hangover Square

1945 · Dr. Allan Middleton

Summer Storm

1944 · Fedja Michailovitch Petroff

Action in Arabia

1944 · Michael Gordon

The Lodger

1944 · Inspector John Warwick

Paris After Dark

1943 · Dr. Andre Marbel

Appointment in Berlin

1943 · Keith Wilson

This Land Is Mine

1943 · George Lambert

They Came to Blow Up America

1943 · Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter

Quiet Please, Murder

1943 · Jim Fleg

The Black Swan

1942 · Captain Billy Leech

The Moon and Sixpence

1942 · Charles Strickland

The Falcon's Brother

1942 · Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence

Tales of Manhattan

1942 · Williams

Her Cardboard Lover

1942 · Tony Barling

The Falcon Takes Over

1942 · Gay Lawrence

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

1942 · Sir Arthur Blake

A Date with the Falcon

1942 · Gay Lawrence / The Falcon

Sundown

1941 · Major A.L. Coombes

The Gay Falcon

1941 · Gay Laurence / The Falcon

Man Hunt

1941 · Major Quive-Smith

Rage in Heaven

1941 · Ward Andrews

The Saint In Palm Springs

1941 · Simon Templar

The Son of Monte Cristo

1940 · Gurko Lanen

Bitter Sweet

1940 · Baron Von Tranisch

Foreign Correspondent

1940 · Scott ffolliott

The Saint Takes Over

1940 · Simon Templar

The House of the Seven Gables

1940 · Jaffrey Pyncheon

Rebecca

1940 · Jack Favell

The Saint's Double Trouble

1940 · Simon Templar

Green Hell

1940 · Forrester

Allegheny Uprising

1939 · Captain Swanson

Nurse Edith Cavell

1939 · Capt. Heinrichs

The Saint in London

1939 · Simon Templar

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

1939 · Franz Schlager

The Saint Strikes Back

1939 · Simon Templar

So This Is London

1939 · Dr. de Reseke

The Outsider

1939 · Anton Ragatzy

Mr. Moto's Last Warning

1939 · Eric Norvel

Four Men and a Prayer

1938 · Wyatt Leigh

International Settlement

1938 · Del Forbes

Lancer Spy

1937 · Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce

The Lady Escapes

1937 · Rene Blanchard

Slave Ship

1937 · Lefty

Love Is News

1937 · Count Andre de Guyon

Lloyd's of London

1936 · Everett Stacy

Dishonour Bright

1936 · Lisle

The Man Who Could Work Miracles

1936 · Indifference - a God

Things to Come

1936 · Celestial Body (uncredited)

Love, Life and Laughter

1934 · Singer in Public Bar (uncredited)

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