George Sanders
Actor
Born July 3, 1906 in 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.
Filmography
Footsteps on the Ceiling
Addison DeWitt (archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Self (archive footage)
Death In Hollywood
Disney's Greatest Villains
Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)
Psychomania
Shadwell
Endless Night
Andrew Lippincott
Doomwatch
The Admiral
The Night of the Assassin
General Downes
The Kremlin Letter
Warlock
The Best House in London
Sir Francis Leybourne
The Body Stealers
Gen. Armstrong
The Girl from Rio
Sir Masius
The Candy Man
Sidney Carter
One Step to Hell
Captain Walter Phillips
Laura
Waldo Lydecker
The Jungle Book
Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
Good Times
Mordicus
Warning Shot
Calvin York
The Quiller Memorandum
Gibbs
Mission: Impossible
Armand Anderssarian
Trunk to Cairo
Professor Schlieben
Batman
Mister Freeze
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
The Banker
Daniel Boone
Col. Roger Barr
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
G. Emory Partridge
The Rogues
Leonard Carvel
The Golden Head
Basil Palmer
F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck
Principe Makowski
A Shot in the Dark
Benjamin Ballon
Dark Purpose
Raymond Fontaine
Ecco
Narrator
Cairo
The Major
The Cracksman
Guv'nor
In Search of the Castaways
Thomas Ayerton
Operation Snatch
Maj. Hobson
Rendezvous
Kellermann
The Rebel
Sir Charles Broward
Five Golden Hours
Mr. Bing
Checkmate
Richard Gilmore
Village of the Damned
Gordon Zellaby
Cone of Silence
Sir Arnold Hobbes
World by Night
Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
Henri Landru
The Last Voyage
Capitaine Robert Adams
A Touch of Larceny
Sir Charles Holland
Solomon and Sheba
Adonijah
That Kind of Woman
A.L.
From the Earth to the Moon
Stuyvesant Nicholl
The Whole Truth
Carliss
The Seventh Sin
Tim Waddington
Death of a Scoundrel
Clementi Sabourin
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self
That Certain Feeling
Larry Larkin
While the City Sleeps
Mark Loving
Never Say Goodbye
Victor
Laura
Waldo Lydecker
Screen Director's Playhouse
Charles Ferris
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Waldo Lydecker
The King's Thief
King Charles II
The Scarlet Coat
Dr. Jonathan Odell
Moonfleet
Lord James Ashwood
Jupiter's Darling
Fabius Maximus
The Stranger Came Home
Studio 57
Dr. Grissom
Journey to Italy
Alex Joyce
King Richard and the Crusaders
King Richard I
Witness to Murder
Albert Richter
A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family
Self
Call Me Madam
Cosmo Constantine
General Electric Theater
Dr. Grissom
Assignment: Paris
Nicholas Strang
Ivanhoe
Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert
The Light Touch
Felix Guignol
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
John York
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
J F Noble
Black Jack
Mike Alexander
All About Eve
Addison DeWitt
The Bob Hope Show
Self
What's My Line?
Self
Samson and Delilah
The Saran of Gaza
The Fan
Lord Robert Darlington
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
Forever Amber
King Charles II
Lured
Robert Fleming
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Miles Fairley
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
Georges Duroy
The Strange Woman
John Evered
A Scandal in Paris
Eugéne François Vidocq
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
Harry Melville Quincey
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lord Henry Wotton
Hangover Square
Dr. Allan Middleton
Summer Storm
Fedja Michailovitch Petroff
Action in Arabia
Michael Gordon
The Lodger
Inspector John Warwick
Paris After Dark
Dr. Andre Marbel
Appointment in Berlin
Keith Wilson
This Land Is Mine
George Lambert
They Came to Blow Up America
Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
Quiet Please, Murder
Jim Fleg
The Black Swan
Captain Billy Leech
The Moon and Sixpence
Charles Strickland
The Falcon's Brother
Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence
Tales of Manhattan
Williams
Her Cardboard Lover
Tony Barling
The Falcon Takes Over
Gay Lawrence
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Sir Arthur Blake
A Date with the Falcon
Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
Sundown
Major A.L. Coombes
The Gay Falcon
Gay Laurence / The Falcon
Man Hunt
Major Quive-Smith
Rage in Heaven
Ward Andrews
The Saint In Palm Springs
Simon Templar
The Son of Monte Cristo
Gurko Lanen
Bitter Sweet
Baron Von Tranisch
Foreign Correspondent
Scott ffolliott
The Saint Takes Over
Simon Templar
The House of the Seven Gables
Jaffrey Pyncheon
Rebecca
Jack Favell
The Saint's Double Trouble
Simon Templar
Green Hell
Forrester
Allegheny Uprising
Captain Swanson
Nurse Edith Cavell
Capt. Heinrichs
The Saint in London
Simon Templar
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Franz Schlager
The Saint Strikes Back
Simon Templar
So This Is London
Dr. de Reseke
The Outsider
Anton Ragatzy
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
Eric Norvel
Four Men and a Prayer
Wyatt Leigh
International Settlement
Del Forbes
Lancer Spy
Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
The Lady Escapes
Rene Blanchard
Slave Ship
Lefty
Love Is News
Count Andre de Guyon
Lloyd's of London
Everett Stacy
Dishonour Bright
Lisle
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Indifference - a God
Things to Come
Celestial Body (uncredited)
Love, Life and Laughter
Singer in Public Bar (uncredited)