Acting · Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia] · Born July 3, 1906
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.
MovieFootsteps on the Ceiling
2013
as Addison DeWitt (archive footage)
MovieIngrid Bergman Remembered
1996
as Self (archive footage)
MovieDeath In Hollywood
1990
MovieDisney's Greatest Villains
1977
as Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
1976
as Self (archive footage)
MoviePsychomania
1973
as Shadwell
MovieEndless Night
1972
as Andrew Lippincott
MovieDoomwatch
1972
as The Admiral
MovieThe Night of the Assassin
1970
as General Downes
MovieThe Kremlin Letter
1970
as Warlock
MovieThe Best House in London
1969
as Sir Francis Leybourne
MovieThe Body Stealers
1969
as Gen. Armstrong
MovieThe Girl from Rio
1969
as Sir Masius
MovieThe Candy Man
1969
as Sidney Carter
MovieOne Step to Hell
1968
as Captain Walter Phillips
MovieLaura
1968
as Waldo Lydecker
MovieThe Jungle Book
1967
as Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
MovieGood Times
1967
as Mordicus
MovieWarning Shot
1967
as Calvin York
MovieThe Quiller Memorandum
1966
as Gibbs
TVMission: Impossible
1966
as Armand Anderssarian
MovieTrunk to Cairo
1966
as Professor Schlieben
TVBatman
1966
as Mister Freeze
MovieThe Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
1965
as The Banker
TVDaniel Boone
1964
as Col. Roger Barr
TVThe Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
as G. Emory Partridge
TVThe Rogues
1964
as Leonard Carvel
MovieThe Golden Head
1964
as Basil Palmer
MovieF.B.I. Operation Baalbeck
1964
as Principe Makowski
MovieA Shot in the Dark
1964
as Benjamin Ballon
MovieDark Purpose
1964
as Raymond Fontaine
MovieEcco
1963
as Narrator
MovieCairo
1963
as The Major
MovieThe Cracksman
1963
as Guv'nor
MovieIn Search of the Castaways
1962
as Thomas Ayerton
MovieOperation Snatch
1962
as Maj. Hobson
MovieRendezvous
1961
as Kellermann
MovieThe Rebel
1961
as Sir Charles Broward
MovieFive Golden Hours
1961
as Mr. Bing
TVCheckmate
1960
as Richard Gilmore
MovieVillage of the Damned
1960
as Gordon Zellaby
MovieCone of Silence
1960
as Sir Arnold Hobbes
MovieWorld by Night
1960
MovieBluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
1960
as Henri Landru
MovieThe Last Voyage
1960
as Capitaine Robert Adams
MovieA Touch of Larceny
1960
as Sir Charles Holland
MovieSolomon and Sheba
1959
as Adonijah
MovieThat Kind of Woman
1959
as A.L.
MovieFrom the Earth to the Moon
1958
as Stuyvesant Nicholl
MovieThe Whole Truth
1958
as Carliss
MovieThe Seventh Sin
1957
as Tim Waddington
The George Sanders Mystery Theater
1957
as Host
MovieDeath of a Scoundrel
1956
as Clementi Sabourin
TVThe Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
as Self
The Bitter Waters
1956
as Charles Ferris
MovieThat Certain Feeling
1956
as Larry Larkin
The Dream
1956
as Baron
MovieWhile the City Sleeps
1956
as Mark Loving
MovieNever Say Goodbye
1956
as Victor
MovieLaura
1955
as Waldo Lydecker
TVScreen Director's Playhouse
1955
as Charles Ferris
TVThe 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
as Waldo Lydecker
MovieThe King's Thief
1955
as King Charles II
MovieThe Scarlet Coat
1955
as Dr. Jonathan Odell
MovieMoonfleet
1955
as Lord James Ashwood
MovieJupiter's Darling
1955
as Fabius Maximus
The Jimmy Durante Show
1954
as Self
TVStudio 57
1954
as Dr. Grissom
MovieJourney to Italy
1954
as Alex Joyce
MovieKing Richard and the Crusaders
1954
as King Richard I
MovieWitness to Murder
1954
as Albert Richter
MovieA Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family
1953
as Self
MovieCall Me Madam
1953
as Cosmo Constantine
TVGeneral Electric Theater
1953
as Dr. Grissom
MovieAssignment: Paris
1952
as Nicholas Strang
MovieIvanhoe
1952
as Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert
MovieThe Light Touch
1951
as Felix Guignol
TVSchlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
as John York
MovieI Can Get It for You Wholesale
1951
as J F Noble
MovieBlack Jack
1950
as Mike Alexander
MovieAll About Eve
1950
as Addison DeWitt
TVThe Bob Hope Show
1950
as Self
TVWhat's My Line?
1950
as Self
MovieSamson and Delilah
1949
as The Saran of Gaza
MovieThe Fan
1949
as Lord Robert Darlington
TVThe Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
MovieForever Amber
1947
as King Charles II
MovieLured
1947
as Robert Fleming
MovieThe Ghost and Mrs. Muir
1947
as Miles Fairley
MovieThe Private Affairs of Bel Ami
1947
as Georges Duroy
MovieThe Strange Woman
1946
as John Evered
MovieA Scandal in Paris
1946
as Eugéne François Vidocq
MovieThe Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
1945
as Harry Melville Quincey
MovieThe Picture of Dorian Gray
1945
as Lord Henry Wotton
MovieHangover Square
1945
as Dr. Allan Middleton
MovieSummer Storm
1944
as Fedja Michailovitch Petroff
MovieAction in Arabia
1944
as Michael Gordon
MovieThe Lodger
1944
as Inspector John Warwick
MovieParis After Dark
1943
as Dr. Andre Marbel
MovieAppointment in Berlin
1943
as Keith Wilson
MovieThis Land Is Mine
1943
as George Lambert
MovieThey Came to Blow Up America
1943
as Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
MovieQuiet Please, Murder
1943
as Jim Fleg
MovieThe Black Swan
1942
as Captain Billy Leech
MovieThe Moon and Sixpence
1942
as Charles Strickland
MovieThe Falcon's Brother
1942
as Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence
MovieTales of Manhattan
1942
as Williams
MovieHer Cardboard Lover
1942
as Tony Barling
MovieThe Falcon Takes Over
1942
as Gay Lawrence
MovieSon of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1942
as Sir Arthur Blake
MovieA Date with the Falcon
1942
as Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
MovieSundown
1941
as Major A.L. Coombes
MovieThe Gay Falcon
1941
as Gay Laurence / The Falcon
MovieMan Hunt
1941
as Major Quive-Smith
MovieRage in Heaven
1941
as Ward Andrews
MovieThe Saint In Palm Springs
1941
as Simon Templar
MovieThe Son of Monte Cristo
1940
as Gurko Lanen
MovieBitter Sweet
1940
as Baron Von Tranisch
MovieForeign Correspondent
1940
as Scott ffolliott
MovieThe Saint Takes Over
1940
as Simon Templar
MovieThe House of the Seven Gables
1940
as Jaffrey Pyncheon
MovieRebecca
1940
as Jack Favell
MovieThe Saint's Double Trouble
1940
as Simon Templar
MovieGreen Hell
1940
as Forrester
MovieAllegheny Uprising
1939
as Captain Swanson
MovieNurse Edith Cavell
1939
as Capt. Heinrichs
MovieThe Saint in London
1939
as Simon Templar
MovieConfessions of a Nazi Spy
1939
as Franz Schlager
MovieThe Saint Strikes Back
1939
as Simon Templar
MovieSo This Is London
1939
as Dr. de Reseke
MovieThe Outsider
1939
as Anton Ragatzy
MovieMr. Moto's Last Warning
1939
as Eric Norvel
MovieFour Men and a Prayer
1938
as Wyatt Leigh
MovieInternational Settlement
1938
as Del Forbes
MovieLancer Spy
1937
as Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
MovieThe Lady Escapes
1937
as Rene Blanchard
MovieSlave Ship
1937
as Lefty
MovieLove Is News
1937
as Count Andre de Guyon
MovieLloyd's of London
1936
as Everett Stacy
MovieDishonour Bright
1936
as Lisle
MovieThe Man Who Could Work Miracles
1936
as Indifference - a God
MovieThings to Come
1936
as Celestial Body (uncredited)
MovieLove, Life and Laughter
1934
as Singer in Public Bar (uncredited)
