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 Gibbs -
As Professor Schlieben -
As The Banker -
As Principe Makowski -
As Basil Palmer -
As Raymond Fontaine -
As Benjamin Ballon -
As Guv'nor -
As The Major -
As Narrator -
As Maj. Hobson -
As Thomas Ayerton -
As Sir Charles Broward -
As Mr. Bing -
As Kellermann -
As Sir Arnold Hobbes -
As Henri Landru -
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As Gordon Zellaby -
As Capitaine Robert Adams -
As Sir Charles Holland -
As A.L. -
As Adonijah -
As Stuyvesant Nicholl -
As Carliss -
As Tim Waddington -
As Clementi Sabourin -
As Larry Larkin -
As Mark Loving -
As Victor -
As Baron
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As Charles Ferris
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As Waldo Lydecker -
As Fabius Maximus -
As Lord James Ashwood -
As Dr. Jonathan Odell -
As King Charles II -
As Alex Joyce -
As King Richard I -
As Albert Richter -
As Self -
As Cosmo Constantine -
As Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert -
As Nicholas Strang -
As Felix Guignol -
As J F Noble -
As Mike Alexander -
As Addison DeWitt -
As The Saran of Gaza -
As Lord Robert Darlington -
As Miles Fairley -
As Robert Fleming -
As King Charles II -
As Georges Duroy -
As John Evered -
As Eugéne François Vidocq -
As Lord Henry Wotton -
As Dr. Allan Middleton -
As Harry Melville Quincey -
As Fedja Michailovitch Petroff -
As Michael Gordon -
As Inspector John Warwick -
As George Lambert -
As Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter -
As Dr. Andre Marbel -
As Jim Fleg -
As Keith Wilson -
As Williams -
As Gay Lawrence -
As Sir Arthur Blake -
As Captain Billy Leech -
As Charles Strickland -
As Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence -
As Tony Barling -
As Gay Lawrence / The Falcon -
As Ward Andrews -
As Simon Templar -
As Major Quive-Smith -
As Gay Laurence / The Falcon -
As Major A.L. Coombes -
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)