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 Self (from All About Eve [1950]) (archive footage)
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As Shadwell
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As The Admiral
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As Andrew Lippincott
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As Warlock
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As General Downes
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As Gen. Armstrong
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As Sir Francis Leybourne
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As Sir Masius
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As Sidney Carter
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As Waldo Lydecker
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As Captain Walter Phillips
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As Mr. Mordicus / Knife McBlade / White hunter / Zarubian
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As Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
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As Calvin York
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As Gibbs
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As Professor Schlieben
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As The Banker
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As Principe Makowski
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As Benjamin Ballon
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As Raymond Fontaine
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As Guv'nor
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As Narrator
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As The Major
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As Maj. Hobson
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As Thomas Ayerton
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As Sir Charles Broward
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As Mr. Bing
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As Kellermann
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As Sir Arnold Hobbes
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As Sir Charles Holland
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As Capitaine Robert Adams
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As Henri Landru
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As Gordon Zellaby
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As A.L.
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As Adonijah
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As Stuyvesant Nicholl
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As Carliss
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As Tim Waddington
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As Larry Larkin
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As Victor
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As Clementi Sabourin
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As Mark Loving
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As Lord James Ashwood
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As Dr. Jonathan Odell
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As Fabius Maximus
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As Waldo Lydecker
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As King Charles II
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As Alexander 'Alex' Joyce
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As King Richard I
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As Albert Richter
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As Self
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As General Cosmo Constantine
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As Nicholas Strang
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As De Bois-Guilbert
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As J F Noble
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As Felix Guignol
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As Mike Alexander
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As Addison DeWitt
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As The Saran of Gaza
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As Lord Robert Darlington
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As Robert Fleming
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As Miles Fairley
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As Georges Duroy
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As King Charles II
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As Eugéne François Vidocq
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As John Evered
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As Harry Melville Quincey
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As Lord Henry Wotton
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As Dr. Allan Middleton
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As Fedja Michailovitch Petroff
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As Michael Gordon
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As Inspector John Warwick
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As Dr. Andre Marbel
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As George Lambert
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As Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
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As Jim Fleg
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As Keith Wilson
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As Williams
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As Captain Billy Leech
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As Charles Strickland
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As Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
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As Gay Lawrence
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As Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence
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As Sir Arthur Blake
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As Tony Barling
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As Ward Andrews
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As Major Quive-Smith
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As Major A.L. Coombes
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As Simon Templar
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As Gay Laurence / The Falcon
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As Jack Favell
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As Simon Templar
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As Gurko Lanen
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As Forrester
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As Scott ffolliott
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As Jaffrey Pyncheon
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As Baron Von Tranisch
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As Simon Templar
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As Capt. Heinrichs
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As Captain Swanson
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As Franz Schlager
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As Simon Templar
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As Simon Templar
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As Dr. de Reseke
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As Eric Norvel
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As Anton Ragatzy
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As Del Forbes
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As Wyatt Leigh
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As Count Andre de Guyon
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As Lefty
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As Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
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As Rene Blanchard
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As Everett Stacy
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As Indifference - a God
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As Lisle
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As Celestial Body (uncredited)
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As Singer in Public Bar