George Sanders
Known for: Acting
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
Series
Mission: Impossible
Armand Anderssarian
1966
Series
Batman
Mister Freeze
1966
Series
Batman
Mister Freeze (uncredited)
1966
Series
Daniel Boone
Col. Roger Barr
1964
Series
What's My Line?
Self
1950
Series
The Bob Hope Show
Self
1950
Series
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
Film
The Jungle Book
Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
1967
Series
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
G. Emory Partridge
1964
Series
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Waldo Lydecker
1955
Series
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self
1956
Series
Studio 57
Dr. Grissom
1954
Series
Checkmate
Richard Gilmore
1960
Series
The Rogues
Leonard Carvel
1964
Series
Screen Director's Playhouse
Charles Ferris
1955
Film
All About Eve
Addison DeWitt
1950
Film
Rebecca
Jack Favell
1940
Film
A Shot in the Dark
Benjamin Ballon
1964
Film
Samson and Delilah
The Saran of Gaza
1949
Film
The Black Swan
Captain Billy Leech
1942
Film
Ivanhoe
Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert
1952
Film
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lord Henry Wotton
1945
The Jimmy Durante Show
Self
1954
Film
Foreign Correspondent
Scott ffolliott
1940
Film
Solomon and Sheba
Adonijah
1959
Film
Village of the Damned
Gordon Zellaby
1960
Film
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Miles Fairley
1947
Film
Things to Come
Celestial Body (uncredited)
1936
Film
Journey to Italy
Alex Joyce
1954
Film
The Strange Woman
John Evered
1946
Series
General Electric Theater
Dr. Grissom
1953
Series
General Electric Theater
William Clark
1953
Series
General Electric Theater
Major Watkins
1953
Film
The Kremlin Letter
Warlock
1970
Film
Endless Night
Andrew Lippincott
1972
Film
Moonfleet
Lord James Ashwood
1955
Film
Lured
Robert Fleming
1947
Film
The Lodger
Inspector John Warwick
1944
Film
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Sir Arthur Blake
1942
Film
Forever Amber
King Charles II
1947
Film
Never Say Goodbye
Victor
1956
Series
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
John York
1951
Film
While the City Sleeps
Mark Loving
1956
Film
This Land Is Mine
George Lambert
1943
Film
The Quiller Memorandum
Gibbs
1966
Film
In Search of the Castaways
Thomas Ayerton
1962
Film
The Girl from Rio
Sir Masius
1969
Film
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
The Banker
1965
Film
Hangover Square
Dr. Allan Middleton
1945
Film
Warning Shot
Calvin York
1967
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
Self (archive footage)
1976
Film
Man Hunt
Major Quive-Smith
1941
Film
The King's Thief
King Charles II
1955
Film
Tales of Manhattan
Williams
1942
Film
Assignment: Paris
Nicholas Strang
1952
Film
A Touch of Larceny
Sir Charles Holland
1960
Film
Witness to Murder
Albert Richter
1954
Film
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Franz Schlager
1939
Film
Rage in Heaven
Ward Andrews
1941
Film
Green Hell
Forrester
1940
Film
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
Georges Duroy
1947
Film
King Richard and the Crusaders
King Richard I
1954
Film
The Saint Takes Over
Simon Templar
1940
Film
The Gay Falcon
Gay Laurence / The Falcon
1941
Film
Love Is News
Count Andre de Guyon
1937
Film
The Last Voyage
Capitaine Robert Adams
1960
Film
Good Times
Mordicus
1967
Film
Lloyd's of London
Everett Stacy
1936
Film
Summer Storm
Fedja Michailovitch Petroff
1944
Film
The Fan
Lord Robert Darlington
1949
Film
Allegheny Uprising
Captain Swanson
1939
Film
The Falcon Takes Over
Gay Lawrence
1942
Film
Sundown
Major A.L. Coombes
1941
Film
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
Harry Melville Quincey
1945
Film
The Rebel
Sir Charles Broward
1961
Film
Jupiter's Darling
Fabius Maximus
1955
Film
Appointment in Berlin
Keith Wilson
1943
Film
The House of the Seven Gables
Jaffrey Pyncheon
1940
Film
Death In Hollywood
1990
Film
The Scarlet Coat
Dr. Jonathan Odell
1955
Film
Slave Ship
Lefty
1937
Film
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
J F Noble
1951
Film
Doomwatch
The Admiral
1972
Film
A Scandal in Paris
Eugéne François Vidocq
1946
Film
The Saint Strikes Back
Simon Templar
1939
Film
Disney's Greatest Villains
Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)
1977
Film
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
Eric Norvel
1939
Film
The Son of Monte Cristo
Gurko Lanen
1940
Film
Nurse Edith Cavell
Capt. Heinrichs
1939
The George Sanders Mystery Theater
Host
1957
Film
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Indifference - a God
1936
Film
The Best House in London
Sir Francis Leybourne
1969
Film
Her Cardboard Lover
Tony Barling
1942
Film
Action in Arabia
Michael Gordon
1944
Film
The Moon and Sixpence
Charles Strickland
1942
Film
A Date with the Falcon
Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
1942
Film
The Body Stealers
Gen. Armstrong
1969
Film
Call Me Madam
Cosmo Constantine
1953
Film
The Night of the Assassin
General Downes
1970
Film
The Seventh Sin
Tim Waddington
1957
Film
The Saint In Palm Springs
Simon Templar
1941
Film
That Certain Feeling
Larry Larkin
1956
Film
Psychomania
Shadwell
1973
Film
Four Men and a Prayer
Wyatt Leigh
1938
Film
Death of a Scoundrel
Clementi Sabourin
1956
Film
Bitter Sweet
Baron Von Tranisch
1940
Film
From the Earth to the Moon
Stuyvesant Nicholl
1958
Film
They Came to Blow Up America
Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
1943
Film
That Kind of Woman
A.L.
1959
Film
International Settlement
Del Forbes
1938
Film
Five Golden Hours
Mr. Bing
1961
Film
Lancer Spy
Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
1937
Film
Trunk to Cairo
Professor Schlieben
1966
Film
The Cracksman
Guv'nor
1963
Film
The Light Touch
Felix Guignol
1951
Film
Cone of Silence
Sir Arnold Hobbes
1960
Film
Rendezvous
Kellermann
1961
Film
Love, Life and Laughter
Singer in Public Bar (uncredited)
1934
Film
The Whole Truth
Carliss
1958
Film
The Outsider
Anton Ragatzy
1939
Film
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Self (archive footage)
1996
Film
Operation Snatch
Maj. Hobson
1962
Film
The Falcon's Brother
Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence
1942
Film
The Saint in London
Simon Templar
1939
Film
Cairo
The Major
1963
Film
The Saint's Double Trouble
Simon Templar
1940
Film
The Lady Escapes
Rene Blanchard
1937
Film
Black Jack
Mike Alexander
1950
Film
One Step to Hell
Captain Walter Phillips
1968
Film
Dark Purpose
Raymond Fontaine
1964
Film
A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family
Self
1953
Film
Footsteps on the Ceiling
Addison DeWitt (archive footage)
2013
Film
Quiet Please, Murder
Jim Fleg
1943
Film
Dishonour Bright
Lisle
1936
Film
Paris After Dark
Dr. Andre Marbel
1943
Film
Laura
Waldo Lydecker
1968
Film
The Candy Man
Sidney Carter
1969
Film
F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck
Principe Makowski
1964
Film
The Golden Head
Basil Palmer
1964
Film
Laura
Waldo Lydecker
1955
Film
Ecco
Narrator
1963
Film
So This Is London
Dr. de Reseke
1939
Film
Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
Henri Landru
1960
The Dream
Baron
1956
The Bitter Waters
Charles Ferris
1956
Film
World by Night
1960