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 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
Credits
- 2013 · Footsteps on the Ceiling as Addison DeWitt (archive footage)
- 1996 · Ingrid Bergman Remembered as Self (archive footage)
- 1986 · Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend as Self (from All About Eve [1950]) (archive footage)
- 1973 · Psychomania as Shadwell
- 1972 · Endless Night as Andrew Lippincott
- 1972 · Doomwatch as The Admiral
- 1970 · The Night of the Assassin as General Downes
- 1970 · The Kremlin Letter as Warlock
- 1969 · The Body Stealers as Gen. Armstrong
- 1969 · The Girl from Rio as Sir Masius
- 1969 · The Candy Man as Sidney Carter
- 1969 · The Best House in London as Sir Francis Leybourne
- 1968 · One Step to Hell as Captain Walter Phillips
- 1968 · Laura as Waldo Lydecker
- 1967 · The Jungle Book as Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
- 1967 · Good Times as Mordicus
- 1967 · Warning Shot as Calvin York
- 1966 · The Quiller Memorandum as Gibbs
- 1966 · Mission: Impossible as Armand Anderssarian
- 1966 · Trunk to Cairo as Professor Schlieben
- 1966 · Batman as Mister Freeze
- 1965 · The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders as The Banker
- 1964 · Daniel Boone as Col. Roger Barr
- 1964 · The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as G. Emory Partridge
- 1964 · The Rogues as Leonard Carvel
- 1964 · The Golden Head as
- 1964 · F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck as Principe Makowski
- 1964 · A Shot in the Dark as Benjamin Ballon
- 1964 · Dark Purpose as Raymond Fontaine
- 1963 · Ecco as Narrator
- 1963 · Cairo as The Major
- 1963 · The Cracksman as Guv'nor
- 1962 · In Search of the Castaways as Thomas Ayerton
- 1962 · Operation Snatch as Maj. Hobson
- 1961 · Rendezvous as Kellermann
- 1961 · The Rebel as Sir Charles Broward
- 1961 · Five Golden Hours as Mr. Bing
- 1960 · Checkmate as Richard Gilmore
- 1960 · Village of the Damned as Gordon Zellaby
- 1960 · Cone of Silence as Sir Arnold Hobbes
- 1960 · Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons as Henri Landru
- 1960 · The Last Voyage as Capitaine Robert Adams
- 1960 · A Touch of Larceny as Sir Charles Holland
- 1959 · Solomon and Sheba as Adonijah
- 1959 · That Kind of Woman as A.L.
- 1958 · From the Earth to the Moon as Stuyvesant Nicholl
- 1958 · The Whole Truth as Carliss
- 1957 · The Seventh Sin as Tim Waddington
- 1957 · The George Sanders Mystery Theater as Host
- 1956 · Death of a Scoundrel as Clementi Sabourin
- 1956 · The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self
- 1956 · The Bitter Waters as Charles Ferris
- 1956 · That Certain Feeling as Larry Larkin
- 1956 · The Dream as Baron
- 1956 · While the City Sleeps as Mark Loving
- 1956 · Never Say Goodbye as Victor
- 1955 · Laura as Waldo Lydecker
- 1955 · The 20th Century Fox Hour as Waldo Lydecker
- 1955 · Screen Director's Playhouse as Charles Ferris
- 1955 · The King's Thief as King Charles II
- 1955 · The Scarlet Coat as Dr. Jonathan Odell
- 1955 · Moonfleet as Lord James Ashwood
- 1955 · Jupiter's Darling as Fabius Maximus
- 1954 · The Jimmy Durante Show as Self
- 1954 · Journey to Italy as Alexander 'Alex' Joyce
- 1954 · King Richard and the Crusaders as King Richard I
- 1954 · Witness to Murder as Albert Richter
- 1953 · A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family as Self
- 1953 · Call Me Madam as Cosmo Constantine
- 1953 · General Electric Theater as Dr. Grissom
- 1953 · General Electric Theater as William Clark
- 1953 · General Electric Theater as Major Watkins
- 1952 · Assignment: Paris as Nicholas Strang
- 1952 · Ivanhoe as De Bois-Guilbert
- 1951 · The Light Touch as Felix Guignol
- 1951 · Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as John York
- 1951 · I Can Get It for You Wholesale as J F Noble
- 1950 · Black Jack as Mike Alexander
- 1950 · All About Eve as Addison DeWitt
- 1950 · The Bob Hope Show as Self
- 1950 · What's My Line? as Self - Panelist
- 1950 · What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
- 1949 · Samson and Delilah as The Saran of Gaza
- 1949 · The Fan as Lord Robert Darlington
- 1948 · The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- 1947 · Forever Amber as King Charles II
- 1947 · Lured as Robert Fleming
- 1947 · The Ghost and Mrs. Muir as Miles Fairley
- 1947 · The Private Affairs of Bel Ami as Georges Duroy
- 1946 · The Strange Woman as John Evered
- 1946 · A Scandal in Paris as Eugéne François Vidocq
- 1945 · The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry as Harry Melville Quincey
- 1945 · The Picture of Dorian Gray as Lord Henry Wotton
- 1945 · Hangover Square as Dr. Allan Middleton
- 1944 · Summer Storm as Fedja Michailovitch Petroff
- 1944 · Action in Arabia as Michael Gordon
- 1944 · The Lodger as Inspector John Warwick
- 1943 · Paris After Dark as Dr. Andre Marbel
- 1943 · Appointment in Berlin as Keith Wilson
- 1943 · This Land Is Mine as George Lambert
- 1943 · They Came to Blow Up America as Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
- 1943 · Quiet Please, Murder as Jim Fleg
- 1942 · The Black Swan as Captain Billy Leech
- 1942 · The Moon and Sixpence as Charles Strickland
- 1942 · The Falcon's Brother as Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence
- 1942 · Tales of Manhattan as Williams
- 1942 · Her Cardboard Lover as Tony Barling
- 1942 · The Falcon Takes Over as Gay Lawrence
- 1942 · Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake as Sir Arthur Blake
- 1942 · A Date with the Falcon as Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
- 1941 · Sundown as Major A.L. Coombes
- 1941 · The Gay Falcon as Gay Laurence / The Falcon
- 1941 · Man Hunt as Major Quive-Smith
- 1941 · Rage in Heaven as Ward Andrews
- 1941 · The Saint In Palm Springs as Simon Templar
- 1940 · The Son of Monte Cristo as Gurko Lanen
- 1940 · Bitter Sweet as Baron Von Tranisch
- 1940 · Foreign Correspondent as Scott ffolliott
- 1940 · The Saint Takes Over as Simon Templar
- 1940 · The House of the Seven Gables as Jaffrey Pyncheon
- 1940 · Rebecca as Jack Favell
- 1940 · Green Hell as Forrester
- 1940 · The Saint's Double Trouble as Simon Templar
- 1939 · Allegheny Uprising as Captain Swanson
- 1939 · Nurse Edith Cavell as Capt. Heinrichs
- 1939 · The Saint in London as Simon Templar
- 1939 · Confessions of a Nazi Spy as Franz Schlager
- 1939 · The Saint Strikes Back as Simon Templar
- 1939 · So This Is London as Dr. de Reseke
- 1939 · The Outsider as Anton Ragatzy
- 1939 · Mr. Moto's Last Warning as Eric Norvel
- 1938 · Four Men and a Prayer as Wyatt Leigh
- 1938 · International Settlement as Del Forbes
- 1937 · Lancer Spy as Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
- 1937 · The Lady Escapes as Rene Blanchard
- 1937 · Slave Ship as Lefty
- 1937 · Love Is News as Count Andre de Guyon
- 1936 · Lloyd's of London as Everett Stacy
- 1936 · Dishonour Bright as Lisle
- 1936 · The Man Who Could Work Miracles as Indifference - a God
- 1936 · Things to Come as Celestial Body (uncredited)
- 1934 · Love, Life and Laughter as Singer in Public Bar