Birth Day: 1906-07-03
Place of birth: 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.
Credits
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As Addison DeWitt (archive footage) -
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As Self (archive footage) -
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As Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage) -
As (archive footage)
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As Shadwell -
As The Admiral -
As Andrew Lippincott -
As General Downes -
As Warlock -
As Sir Masius -
As Gen. Armstrong -
As Sidney Carter -
As Sir Francis Leybourne -
As Captain Walter Phillips -
As Waldo Lydecker -
As Mordicus -
As Calvin York -
As Shere Khan the Tiger (voice) -
As Gibbs -
As Professor Schlieben -
As The Banker -
As Principe Makowski -
As Basil Palmer -
As Raymond Fontaine -
As Benjamin Ballon -
As The Major -
As Narrator -
As Guv'nor -
As Thomas Ayerton -
As Maj. Hobson -
As Mr. Bing -
As Sir Charles Broward -
As Kellermann -
As Gordon Zellaby -
As Sir Charles Holland -
As Capitaine Robert Adams -
As Henri Landru -
As Sir Arnold Hobbes -
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As A.L. -
As Adonijah -
As Carliss -
As Stuyvesant Nicholl -
As Tim Waddington -
As Charles Ferris
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As Victor -
As Larry Larkin -
As Baron
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As Mark Loving -
As Clementi Sabourin -
As Dr. Jonathan Odell -
As Lord James Ashwood -
As Fabius Maximus -
As Waldo Lydecker -
As King Charles II -
As King Richard I -
As Alex Joyce -
As Albert Richter -
As Cosmo Constantine -
As Self -
As Nicholas Strang -
As Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert -
As J F Noble -
As Felix Guignol -
As Addison DeWitt -
As Mike Alexander -
As Lord Robert Darlington -
As The Saran of Gaza -
As Miles Fairley -
As King Charles II -
As Georges Duroy -
As Robert Fleming -
As Eugéne François Vidocq -
As John Evered -
As Harry Melville Quincey -
As Dr. Allan Middleton -
As Lord Henry Wotton -
As Inspector John Warwick -
As Michael Gordon -
As Fedja Michailovitch Petroff -
As Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter -
As Keith Wilson -
As Jim Fleg -
As George Lambert -
As Dr. Andre Marbel -
As Tony Barling -
As Captain Billy Leech -
As Charles Strickland -
As Williams -
As Gay Lawrence -
As Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence -
As Sir Arthur Blake -
As Gay Lawrence / The Falcon -
As Gay Laurence / The Falcon -
As Ward Andrews -
As Major Quive-Smith -
As Simon Templar -
As Major A.L. Coombes -
As Jack Favell -
As Baron Von Tranisch -
As Jaffrey Pyncheon -
As Forrester -
As Simon Templar -
As Scott ffolliott -
As Gurko Lanen -
As Simon Templar -
As Capt. Heinrichs -
As Captain Swanson -
As Simon Templar -
As Eric Norvel -
As Simon Templar -
As Franz Schlager -
As Anton Ragatzy -
As Dr. de Reseke -
As Del Forbes -
As Wyatt Leigh -
As Count Andre de Guyon -
As Rene Blanchard -
As Lefty -
As Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce -
As Everett Stacy -
As Indifference - a God -
As Celestial Body (uncredited) -
As Lisle -
As Singer in Public Bar (uncredited)