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) -
As Self (archive footage) -
As Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage) -
As Self (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 Benjamin Ballon -
As Basil Palmer -
As Raymond Fontaine -
As Narrator -
As Guv'nor -
As The Major -
As Thomas Ayerton -
As Maj. Hobson -
As Sir Charles Broward -
As Kellermann -
As Mr. Bing -
As Gordon Zellaby -
As Capitaine Robert Adams -
As Sir Arnold Hobbes -
As Sir Charles Holland -
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As Henri Landru -
As Adonijah -
As A.L. -
As Stuyvesant Nicholl -
As Carliss -
As Tim Waddington -
As Clementi Sabourin -
As Mark Loving -
As Baron
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As Larry Larkin -
As Victor -
As Charles Ferris
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As Dr. Jonathan Odell -
As Waldo Lydecker -
As King Charles II -
As Lord James Ashwood -
As Fabius Maximus -
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 The Saran of Gaza -
As Lord Robert Darlington -
As Robert Fleming -
As King Charles II -
As Miles Fairley -
As Georges Duroy -
As John Evered -
As Eugéne François Vidocq -
As Dr. Allan Middleton -
As Lord Henry Wotton -
As Harry Melville Quincey -
As Inspector John Warwick -
As Michael Gordon -
As Fedja Michailovitch Petroff -
As Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter -
As Jim Fleg -
As Keith Wilson -
As Dr. Andre Marbel -
As George Lambert -
As Tony Barling -
As Sir Arthur Blake -
As Captain Billy Leech -
As Gay Lawrence / The Falcon -
As Gay Lawrence -
As Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence -
As Williams -
As Charles Strickland -
As Ward Andrews -
As Gay Laurence / The Falcon -
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)