Acting
George Sanders
EN, FR, IT, DE cinema · 128 credits
Born
3 July 1906
Died
25 April 1972 (aged 65)
Birthplace
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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
as Addison DeWitt (archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
as Self (archive footage)
Death In Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
Disney's Greatest Villains
as Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
1976
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
as (archive footage)
Psychomania
as Shadwell
Endless Night
as Andrew Lippincott
Doomwatch
as The Admiral
The Kremlin Letter
as Warlock
The Night of the Assassin
as General Downes
The Girl from Rio
as Sir Masius
The Body Stealers
as Gen. Armstrong
The Best House in London
as Sir Francis Leybourne
The Candy Man
as Sidney Carter
Laura
as Waldo Lydecker
One Step to Hell
as Captain Walter Phillips
The Jungle Book
as Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
Warning Shot
as Calvin York
Good Times
as Mordicus
Trunk to Cairo
as Professor Schlieben
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
as The Banker
A Shot in the Dark
as Benjamin Ballon
Dark Purpose
as Raymond Fontaine
F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck
as Principe Makowski
The Golden Head
as Basil Palmer
Cairo
as The Major
The Cracksman
as Guv'nor
Ecco
as Narrator
In Search of the Castaways
as Thomas Ayerton
Operation Snatch
as Maj. Hobson
Five Golden Hours
as Mr. Bing
The Rebel
as Sir Charles Broward
Rendezvous
as Kellermann
Village of the Damned
as Gordon Zellaby
The Last Voyage
as Capitaine Robert Adams
A Touch of Larceny
as Sir Charles Holland
Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
as Henri Landru
Cone of Silence
as Sir Arnold Hobbes
Solomon and Sheba
as Adonijah
From the Earth to the Moon
as Stuyvesant Nicholl
The Whole Truth
as Carliss
The Seventh Sin
as Tim Waddington
While the City Sleeps
as Mark Loving
Death of a Scoundrel
as Clementi Sabourin
That Certain Feeling
as Larry Larkin
Never Say Goodbye
as Victor
The Bitter Waters
1956
The Bitter Waters
as Charles Ferris
Moonfleet
as Lord James Ashwood
The King's Thief
as King Charles II
Jupiter's Darling
as Fabius Maximus
The Scarlet Coat
as Dr. Jonathan Odell
Laura
as Waldo Lydecker
Journey to Italy
as Alex Joyce
Witness to Murder
as Albert Richter
King Richard and the Crusaders
as King Richard I
Call Me Madam
as Cosmo Constantine
Ivanhoe
as Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert
Assignment: Paris
as Nicholas Strang
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
as J F Noble
The Light Touch
as Felix Guignol
All About Eve
as Addison DeWitt
Black Jack
as Mike Alexander
Samson and Delilah
as The Saran of Gaza
The Fan
as Lord Robert Darlington
Lured
as Robert Fleming
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
as Miles Fairley
Forever Amber
as King Charles II
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
as Georges Duroy
The Strange Woman
as John Evered
A Scandal in Paris
as Eugéne François Vidocq
Hangover Square
as Dr. Allan Middleton
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
as Harry Melville Quincey
The Picture of Dorian Gray
as Lord Henry Wotton
The Lodger
as Inspector John Warwick
Summer Storm
as Fedja Michailovitch Petroff
Action in Arabia
as Michael Gordon
Quiet Please, Murder
as Jim Fleg
This Land Is Mine
as George Lambert
Appointment in Berlin
as Keith Wilson
Paris After Dark
as Dr. Andre Marbel
They Came to Blow Up America
as Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
Tales of Manhattan
as Williams
The Black Swan
as Captain Billy Leech
A Date with the Falcon
as Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
as Sir Arthur Blake
The Falcon's Brother
as Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence
The Falcon Takes Over
as Gay Lawrence
The Moon and Sixpence
as Charles Strickland
Her Cardboard Lover
as Tony Barling
Man Hunt
as Major Quive-Smith
Rage in Heaven
as Ward Andrews
The Gay Falcon
as Gay Laurence / The Falcon
The Saint In Palm Springs
as Simon Templar
Sundown
as Major A.L. Coombes
Rebecca
as Jack Favell
Foreign Correspondent
as Scott ffolliott
The House of the Seven Gables
as Jaffrey Pyncheon
The Saint's Double Trouble
as Simon Templar
The Son of Monte Cristo
as Gurko Lanen
The Saint Takes Over
as Simon Templar
Bitter Sweet
as Baron Von Tranisch
Green Hell
as Forrester
Allegheny Uprising
as Captain Swanson
The Saint Strikes Back
as Simon Templar
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
as Eric Norvel
The Saint in London
as Simon Templar
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
as Franz Schlager
Nurse Edith Cavell
as Capt. Heinrichs
So This Is London
as Dr. de Reseke
The Outsider
as Anton Ragatzy
Four Men and a Prayer
as Wyatt Leigh
International Settlement
as Del Forbes
Lancer Spy
as Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
Slave Ship
as Lefty
The Lady Escapes
as Rene Blanchard
Love Is News
as Count Andre de Guyon
Things to Come
as Celestial Body (uncredited)
Lloyd's of London
as Everett Stacy
Dishonour Bright
as Lisle
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
as Indifference - a God
Love, Life and Laughter
as Singer in Public Bar (uncredited)