George Sanders

ActorWriter Jul 3 (died age 65) Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia] 1934–2013 (79 year career)

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Biography

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…

Known For

Film

The Jungle Book

Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)

Film

All About Eve

Addison DeWitt

Film

Rebecca

Jack Favell

Film

A Shot in the Dark

Benjamin Ballon

Film

Village of the Damned

Gordon Zellaby

Film

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Miles Fairley

Film

Foreign Correspondent

Scott ffolliott

Film

Journey to Italy

Alexander 'Alex' Joyce

Filmography

Acting (141)

Movies (124)

Footsteps on the Ceiling

2013

as Addison DeWitt (archive footage)

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

1996

as Self (archive footage)

6.7

Disney's Greatest Villains

1977

as Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)

Psychomania

as Shadwell

Endless Night

as Andrew Lippincott

Doomwatch

as The Admiral

The Kremlin Letter

as Warlock

The Night of the Assassin

1970

as General Downes

The Candy Man

as Sidney Carter

The Body Stealers

as Gen. Armstrong

The Girl from Rio

as Sir Masius

The Best House in London

1969

as Sir Francis Leybourne

3.6

One Step to Hell

1968

as Captain Walter Phillips

Laura

as Waldo Lydecker

The Jungle Book

as Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)

Warning Shot

as Calvin York

Good Times

as Mordicus

The Quiller Memorandum

1966

as Gibbs

5.8

Trunk to Cairo

1966

as Professor Schlieben

5.0

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

as The Banker

A Shot in the Dark

as Benjamin Ballon

The Golden Head

F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck

as Principe Makowski

Dark Purpose

as Raymond Fontaine

Cairo

as The Major

The Cracksman

as Guv'nor

Ecco

as Narrator

In Search of the Castaways

1962

as Thomas Ayerton

6.5

Operation Snatch

1962

as Maj. Hobson

Five Golden Hours

as Mr. Bing

Rendezvous

as Kellermann

The Rebel

as Sir Charles Broward

7.8

Village of the Damned

1960

as Gordon Zellaby

7.2

A Touch of Larceny

1960

as Sir Charles Holland

5.9

The Last Voyage

1960

as Capitaine Robert Adams

Cone of Silence

as Sir Arnold Hobbes

World by Night

Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons

as Henri Landru

Solomon and Sheba

as Adonijah

That Kind of Woman

as A.L.

The Whole Truth

as Carliss

From the Earth to the Moon

1958

as Stuyvesant Nicholl

The Seventh Sin

as Tim Waddington

The Bitter Waters

as Charles Ferris

The Dream

1956

as Baron

While the City Sleeps

as Mark Loving

Never Say Goodbye

as Victor

That Certain Feeling

as Larry Larkin

Death of a Scoundrel

as Clementi Sabourin

Moonfleet

as Lord James Ashwood

Jupiter's Darling

as Fabius Maximus

The Scarlet Coat

as Dr. Jonathan Odell

The King's Thief

as King Charles II

Laura

as Waldo Lydecker

Journey to Italy

as Alexander 'Alex' Joyce

7.3

King Richard and the Crusaders

as King Richard I

Witness to Murder

as Albert Richter

Call Me Madam

as Cosmo Constantine

A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family

as Self

Assignment: Paris

as Nicholas Strang

Ivanhoe

as Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert

6.8

The Light Touch

1951

as Felix Guignol

6.2

I Can Get It for You Wholesale

as J F Noble

All About Eve

as Addison DeWitt

Black Jack

as Mike Alexander

Samson and Delilah

as The Saran of Gaza

The Fan

as Lord Robert Darlington

5.7

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

as Miles Fairley

Lured

as Robert Fleming

Forever Amber

as King Charles II

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

as Georges Duroy

The Strange Woman

as John Evered

A Scandal in Paris

as Eugéne François Vidocq

6.4

The Picture of Dorian Gray

1945

as Lord Henry Wotton

7.1

Hangover Square

1945

as Dr. Allan Middleton

7.0

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

1945

as Harry Melville Quincey

6.2

The Lodger

1944

as Inspector John Warwick

6.5

Summer Storm

1944

as Fedja Michailovitch Petroff

Action in Arabia

as Michael Gordon

This Land Is Mine

as George Lambert

Quiet Please, Murder

as Jim Fleg

Paris After Dark

as Dr. Andre Marbel

Appointment in Berlin

1943

as Keith Wilson

6.7

They Came to Blow Up America

1943

as Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter

6.2

The Moon and Sixpence

1942

as Charles Strickland

6.1

The Black Swan

1942

as Captain Billy Leech

6.5

Tales of Manhattan

1942

as Williams

6.3

The Falcon Takes Over

1942

as Gay Lawrence

6.2

The Falcon's Brother

1942

as Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence

6.3

Her Cardboard Lover

1942

as Tony Barling

4.4

A Date with the Falcon

1942

as Gay Lawrence / The Falcon

6.5

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

as Sir Arthur Blake

Rage in Heaven

as Ward Andrews

Man Hunt

as Major Quive-Smith

Sundown

as Major A.L. Coombes

5.4

The Gay Falcon

1941

as Gay Laurence / The Falcon

6.3

The Saint In Palm Springs

as Simon Templar

Rebecca

as Jack Favell

The Saint's Double Trouble

1940

as Simon Templar

5.7

Bitter Sweet

1940

as Baron Von Tranisch

5.8

Green Hell

1940

as Forrester

4.0

Foreign Correspondent

1940

as Scott ffolliott

7.0

The House of the Seven Gables

as Jaffrey Pyncheon

The Saint Takes Over

as Simon Templar

The Son of Monte Cristo

as Gurko Lanen

The Outsider

as Anton Ragatzy

The Saint in London

as Simon Templar

Mr. Moto's Last Warning

as Eric Norvel

Allegheny Uprising

as Captain Swanson

Nurse Edith Cavell

as Capt. Heinrichs

So This Is London

as Dr. de Reseke

The Saint Strikes Back

1939

as Simon Templar

5.6

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

1939

as Franz Schlager

6.0

International Settlement

1938

as Del Forbes

5.6

Four Men and a Prayer

1938

as Wyatt Leigh

6.3

The Lady Escapes

1937

as Rene Blanchard

Love Is News

1937

as Count Andre de Guyon

6.0

Lancer Spy

1937

as Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce

Slave Ship

as Lefty

Dishonour Bright

as Lisle

Things to Come

as Celestial Body (uncredited)

6.5

Lloyd's of London

1936

as Everett Stacy

7.2

The Man Who Could Work Miracles

1936

as Indifference - a God

5.8

Love, Life and Laughter

1934

as Singer in Public Bar (uncredited)

7.5

Television (17)

Batman

1966

as Mister Freeze (uncredited)

7.3

Mission: Impossible

1966

as Armand Anderssarian

7.6

Daniel Boone

1964

as Col. Roger Barr

7.0

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

1964

as G. Emory Partridge

The Rogues

as Leonard Carvel

Checkmate

as Richard Gilmore

The George Sanders Mystery Theater

1957

as Host

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

1956

as Self

6.0

The 20th Century Fox Hour

1955

as Waldo Lydecker

5.4

Screen Director's Playhouse

1955

as Charles Ferris

6.5

Studio 57

1954

as Dr. Grissom

The Jimmy Durante Show

1954

as Self

General Electric Theater

1953

as Dr. Grissom

6.4

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as John York

The Bob Hope Show

as Self

What's My Line?

as Self - Mystery Guest

6.9

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948

as Self

6.8

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

The Stranger Came Home

1954

Novel

5.1