George Sanders
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 3, 1906
- Died
- April 25, 1972
- 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.
Filmography
Footsteps on the Ceiling 2013
as Addison DeWitt (archive footage)
Les messages de Fritz Lang 2003
Actor
Ingrid Bergman Remembered 1996
as Self (archive footage)
Death In Hollywood 1990
as Self (archive footage)
Disney's Greatest Villains 1977
as Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)
- Bob Hope's World of Comedy
Bob Hope's World of Comedy 1976
as (archive footage)
Psychomania 1973
as Shadwell
Endless Night 1972
as Andrew Lippincott
Doomwatch 1972
as The Admiral
The Night of the Assassin 1970
as General Downes
The Kremlin Letter 1970
as Warlock
The Best House in London 1969
as Sir Francis Leybourne
The Body Stealers 1969
as Gen. Armstrong
The Girl from Rio 1969
as Sir Masius
The Candy Man 1969
as Sidney Carter
One Step to Hell 1968
as Captain Walter Phillips
Laura 1968
as Waldo Lydecker
The Jungle Book 1967
as Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
Good Times 1967
as Mordicus
Warning Shot 1967
as Calvin York
The Quiller Memorandum 1966
as Gibbs
Trunk to Cairo 1966
as Professor Schlieben
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders 1965
as The Banker
The Golden Head 1964
as Basil Palmer
F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck 1964
as Principe Makowski
A Shot in the Dark 1964
as Benjamin Ballon
Dark Purpose 1964
as Raymond Fontaine
Ecco 1963
as Narrator
Cairo 1963
as The Major
The Cracksman 1963
as Guv'nor
In Search of the Castaways 1962
as Thomas Ayerton
Operation Snatch 1962
as Maj. Hobson
Rendezvous 1961
as Kellermann
The Rebel 1961
as Sir Charles Broward
Five Golden Hours 1961
as Mr. Bing
Village of the Damned 1960
as Gordon Zellaby
Cone of Silence 1960
as Sir Arnold Hobbes
World by Night 1960
Actor
Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons 1960
as Henri Landru
The Last Voyage 1960
as Capitaine Robert Adams
A Touch of Larceny 1960
as Sir Charles Holland
Solomon and Sheba 1959
as Adonijah
That Kind of Woman 1959
as A.L.
From the Earth to the Moon 1958
as Stuyvesant Nicholl
The Whole Truth 1958
as Carliss
The Seventh Sin 1957
as Tim Waddington
Death of a Scoundrel 1956
as Clementi Sabourin
- The Bitter Waters
The Bitter Waters 1956
as Charles Ferris
That Certain Feeling 1956
as Larry Larkin
- The Dream
The Dream 1956
as Baron
While the City Sleeps 1956
as Mark Loving
Never Say Goodbye 1956
as Victor
Laura 1955
as Waldo Lydecker
The King's Thief 1955
as King Charles II
The Scarlet Coat 1955
as Dr. Jonathan Odell
Moonfleet 1955
as Lord James Ashwood
Jupiter's Darling 1955
as Fabius Maximus
The Unholy Four 1954
Novel
Journey to Italy 1954
as Alex Joyce
King Richard and the Crusaders 1954
as King Richard I
Witness to Murder 1954
as Albert Richter
A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family 1953
as Self
Call Me Madam 1953
as Cosmo Constantine
Assignment: Paris 1952
as Nicholas Strang
Ivanhoe 1952
as Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert
The Light Touch 1951
as Felix Guignol
I Can Get It for You Wholesale 1951
as J F Noble
Black Jack 1950
as Mike Alexander
All About Eve 1950
as Addison DeWitt
Samson and Delilah 1949
as The Saran of Gaza
The Fan 1949
as Lord Robert Darlington
Forever Amber 1947
as King Charles II
Lured 1947
as Robert Fleming
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947
as Miles Fairley
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami 1947
as Georges Duroy
The Strange Woman 1946
as John Evered
A Scandal in Paris 1946
as Eugéne François Vidocq
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry 1945
as Harry Melville Quincey
The Picture of Dorian Gray 1945
as Lord Henry Wotton
Hangover Square 1945
as Dr. Allan Middleton
Summer Storm 1944
as Fedja Michailovitch Petroff
Action in Arabia 1944
as Michael Gordon
The Lodger 1944
as Inspector John Warwick
Paris After Dark 1943
as Dr. Andre Marbel
Appointment in Berlin 1943
as Keith Wilson
They Came to Blow Up America 1943
as Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
This Land Is Mine 1943
as George Lambert
Quiet Please, Murder 1943
as Jim Fleg
The Black Swan 1942
as Captain Billy Leech
The Moon and Sixpence 1942
as Charles Strickland
The Falcon's Brother 1942
as Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence
Tales of Manhattan 1942
as Williams
Her Cardboard Lover 1942
as Tony Barling
The Falcon Takes Over 1942
as Gay Lawrence
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake 1942
as Sir Arthur Blake
A Date with the Falcon 1942
as Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
Sundown 1941
as Major A.L. Coombes
The Gay Falcon 1941
as Gay Laurence / The Falcon
Man Hunt 1941
as Major Quive-Smith
Rage in Heaven 1941
as Ward Andrews
The Saint In Palm Springs 1941
as Simon Templar
The Son of Monte Cristo 1940
as Gurko Lanen
Bitter Sweet 1940
as Baron Von Tranisch
Foreign Correspondent 1940
as Scott ffolliott
The Saint Takes Over 1940
as Simon Templar
The House of the Seven Gables 1940
as Jaffrey Pyncheon
Rebecca 1940
as Jack Favell
Green Hell 1940
as Forrester
The Saint's Double Trouble 1940
as Simon Templar
Allegheny Uprising 1939
as Captain Swanson
Nurse Edith Cavell 1939
as Capt. Heinrichs
The Saint in London 1939
as Simon Templar
Confessions of a Nazi Spy 1939
as Franz Schlager
The Saint Strikes Back 1939
as Simon Templar
So This Is London 1939
as Dr. de Reseke
The Outsider 1939
as Anton Ragatzy
Mr. Moto's Last Warning 1939
as Eric Norvel
Four Men and a Prayer 1938
as Wyatt Leigh
International Settlement 1938
as Del Forbes
Lancer Spy 1937
as Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
The Lady Escapes 1937
as Rene Blanchard
Slave Ship 1937
as Lefty
Love Is News 1937
as Count Andre de Guyon
Lloyd's of London 1936
as Everett Stacy
Dishonour Bright 1936
as Lisle
The Man Who Could Work Miracles 1936
as Indifference - a God
Things to Come 1936
as Celestial Body (uncredited)
Love, Life and Laughter 1934
as Singer in Public Bar (uncredited)
Credits from TMDB.