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.
Known For
| Birth Location | Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia] |
|---|---|
| Born | 1906-07-03 |
| Died | 1972-04-25 |
Movies
Footsteps on the Ceiling
as Addison DeWitt (archive footage)
2013
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
as Self (archive footage)
1996
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
as Self (from All About Eve [1950]) (archive footage)
1986
Psychomania
as Shadwell
1973
Endless Night
as Andrew Lippincott
1972
Doomwatch
as The Admiral
1972
The Night of the Assassin
as General Downes
1970
The Kremlin Letter
as Warlock
1970
The Body Stealers
as Gen. Armstrong
1969
The Girl from Rio
as Sir Masius
1969
The Candy Man
as Sidney Carter
1969
The Best House in London
as Sir Francis Leybourne
1969
One Step to Hell
as Captain Walter Phillips
1968
Laura
as Waldo Lydecker
1968
The Jungle Book
as Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
1967
Good Times
as Mr. Mordicus / Knife McBlade / White hunter / Zarubian
1967
Warning Shot
as Calvin York
1967
The Quiller Memorandum
as Gibbs
1966
Trunk to Cairo
as Professor Schlieben
1966
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
as The Banker
1965
1964
F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck
as Principe Makowski
1964
A Shot in the Dark
as Benjamin Ballon
1964
Dark Purpose
as Raymond Fontaine
1964
Ecco
as Narrator
1963
Cairo
as The Major
1963
The Cracksman
as Guv'nor
1963
In Search of the Castaways
as Thomas Ayerton
1962
Operation Snatch
as Maj. Hobson
1962
Rendezvous
as Kellermann
1961
The Rebel
as Sir Charles Broward
1961
Five Golden Hours
as Mr. Bing
1961
Village of the Damned
as Gordon Zellaby
1960
Trouble in the Sky
as Sir Arnold Hobbes
1960
Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
as Henri Landru
1960
The Last Voyage
as Capitaine Robert Adams
1960
A Touch of Larceny
as Sir Charles Holland
1960
Solomon and Sheba
as Adonijah
1959
That Kind of Woman
as A.L.
1959
From the Earth to the Moon
as Stuyvesant Nicholl
1958
The Whole Truth
as Carliss
1958
The Seventh Sin
as Tim Waddington
1957
Death of a Scoundrel
as Clementi Sabourin
1956
That Certain Feeling
as Larry Larkin
1956
While the City Sleeps
as Mark Loving
1956
Never Say Goodbye
as Victor
1956
Laura
as Waldo Lydecker
1955
The King's Thief
as King Charles II
1955
The Scarlet Coat
as Dr. Jonathan Odell
1955
Moonfleet
as Lord James Ashwood
1955
Jupiter's Darling
as Fabius Maximus
1955
Journey to Italy
as Alexander 'Alex' Joyce
1954
King Richard and the Crusaders
as King Richard I
1954
Witness to Murder
as Albert Richter
1954
1953
Call Me Madam
as General Cosmo Constantine
1953
Assignment: Paris
as Nicholas Strang
1952
Ivanhoe
as De Bois-Guilbert
1952
The Light Touch
as Felix Guignol
1951
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
as J F Noble
1951
Black Jack
as Mike Alexander
1950
All About Eve
as Addison DeWitt
1950
Samson and Delilah
as The Saran of Gaza
1949
The Fan
as Lord Robert Darlington
1949
Forever Amber
as King Charles II
1947
Lured
as Robert Fleming
1947
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
as Miles Fairley
1947
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
as Georges Duroy
1947
The Strange Woman
as John Evered
1946
A Scandal in Paris
as Eugéne François Vidocq
1946
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
as Harry Melville Quincey
1945
The Picture of Dorian Gray
as Lord Henry Wotton
1945
Hangover Square
as Dr. Allan Middleton
1945
Summer Storm
as Fedja Michailovitch Petroff
1944
Action in Arabia
as Michael Gordon
1944
The Lodger
as Inspector John Warwick
1944
Paris After Dark
as Dr. Andre Marbel
1943
Appointment in Berlin
as Keith Wilson
1943
They Came to Blow Up America
as Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
1943
This Land Is Mine
as George Lambert
1943
Quiet Please, Murder
as Jim Fleg
1943
The Black Swan
as Captain Billy Leech
1942
The Moon and Sixpence
as Charles Strickland
1942
The Falcon's Brother
as Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence
1942
Tales of Manhattan
as Williams
1942
Her Cardboard Lover
as Tony Barling
1942
The Falcon Takes Over
as Gay Lawrence
1942
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
as Sir Arthur Blake
1942
A Date with the Falcon
as Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
1942
Sundown
as Major A.L. Coombes
1941
The Gay Falcon
as Gay Laurence / The Falcon
1941
Man Hunt
as Major Quive-Smith
1941
Rage in Heaven
as Ward Andrews
1941
The Saint In Palm Springs
as Simon Templar
1941
The Son of Monte Cristo
as Gurko Lanen
1940
Bitter Sweet
as Baron Von Tranisch
1940
Foreign Correspondent
as Scott ffolliott
1940
The Saint Takes Over
as Simon Templar
1940
The House of the Seven Gables
as Jaffrey Pyncheon
1940
Rebecca
as Jack Favell
1940
Green Hell
as Forrester
1940
The Saint's Double Trouble
as Simon Templar
1940
Allegheny Uprising
as Captain Swanson
1939
Nurse Edith Cavell
as Capt. Heinrichs
1939
The Saint in London
as Simon Templar
1939
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
as Franz Schlager
1939
The Saint Strikes Back
as Simon Templar
1939
So This Is London
as Dr. de Reseke
1939
The Outsider
as Anton Ragatzy
1939
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
as Eric Norvel
1939
Four Men and a Prayer
as Wyatt Leigh
1938
International Settlement
as Del Forbes
1938
Lancer Spy
as Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
1937
The Lady Escapes
as Rene Blanchard
1937
Slave Ship
as Lefty
1937
Love Is News
as Count Andre de Guyon
1937
Lloyd's of London
as Everett Stacy
1936
Dishonour Bright
as Lisle
1936
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
as Indifference - a God
1936
Things to Come
as Celestial Body (uncredited)
1936
Love, Life and Laughter
as Singer in Public Bar
1934
Movies
The Unholy Four
Novel
1954
