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