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