George Sanders

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 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

Batman

Batman

Mission: Impossible

Daniel Boone

What's My Line?

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Bob Hope Show

Checkmate

All Movies (126)

• Footsteps on the Ceiling2013 · as Addison DeWitt (archive footage)
• Ingrid Bergman Remembered1996 · as Self (archive footage)
• Death In Hollywood1990
• Disney's Greatest Villains1977 · as Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)
• Bob Hope's World of Comedy1976 · as Self (archive footage)
• Psychomania1973 · as Shadwell
• Endless Night1972 · as Andrew Lippincott
• Doomwatch1972 · as The Admiral
• The Night of the Assassin1970 · as General Downes
• The Kremlin Letter1970 · as Warlock
• The Best House in London1969 · as Sir Francis Leybourne
• The Body Stealers1969 · as Gen. Armstrong
• The Girl from Rio1969 · as Sir Masius
• The Candy Man1969 · as Sidney Carter
• One Step to Hell1968 · as Captain Walter Phillips
• Laura1968 · as Waldo Lydecker
• The Jungle Book1967 · as Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
• Good Times1967 · as Mordicus
• Warning Shot1967 · as Calvin York
• The Quiller Memorandum1966 · as Gibbs
• Trunk to Cairo1966 · as Professor Schlieben
• The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders1965 · as The Banker
• The Golden Head1964 · as Basil Palmer
• F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck1964 · as Principe Makowski
• A Shot in the Dark1964 · as Benjamin Ballon
• Dark Purpose1964 · as Raymond Fontaine
• Ecco1963 · as Narrator
• Cairo1963 · as The Major
• The Cracksman1963 · as Guv'nor
• In Search of the Castaways1962 · as Thomas Ayerton
• Operation Snatch1962 · as Maj. Hobson
• Rendezvous1961 · as Kellermann
• The Rebel1961 · as Sir Charles Broward
• Five Golden Hours1961 · as Mr. Bing
• Village of the Damned1960 · as Gordon Zellaby
• Cone of Silence1960 · as Sir Arnold Hobbes
• World by Night1960
• Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons1960 · as Henri Landru
• The Last Voyage1960 · as Capitaine Robert Adams
• A Touch of Larceny1960 · as Sir Charles Holland
• Solomon and Sheba1959 · as Adonijah
• That Kind of Woman1959 · as A.L.
• From the Earth to the Moon1958 · as Stuyvesant Nicholl
• The Whole Truth1958 · as Carliss
• The Seventh Sin1957 · as Tim Waddington
• Death of a Scoundrel1956 · as Clementi Sabourin
• The Bitter Waters1956 · as Charles Ferris
• That Certain Feeling1956 · as Larry Larkin
• The Dream1956 · as Baron
• While the City Sleeps1956 · as Mark Loving
• Never Say Goodbye1956 · as Victor
• Laura1955 · as Waldo Lydecker
• The King's Thief1955 · as King Charles II
• The Scarlet Coat1955 · as Dr. Jonathan Odell
• Moonfleet1955 · as Lord James Ashwood
• Jupiter's Darling1955 · as Fabius Maximus
• Journey to Italy1954 · as Alex Joyce
• King Richard and the Crusaders1954 · as King Richard I
• Witness to Murder1954 · as Albert Richter
• A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family1953 · as Self
• Call Me Madam1953 · as Cosmo Constantine
• Assignment: Paris1952 · as Nicholas Strang
• Ivanhoe1952 · as Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert
• The Light Touch1951 · as Felix Guignol
• I Can Get It for You Wholesale1951 · as J F Noble
• Black Jack1950 · as Mike Alexander
• All About Eve1950 · as Addison DeWitt
• Samson and Delilah1949 · as The Saran of Gaza
• The Fan1949 · as Lord Robert Darlington
• Forever Amber1947 · as King Charles II
• Lured1947 · as Robert Fleming
• The Ghost and Mrs. Muir1947 · as Miles Fairley
• The Private Affairs of Bel Ami1947 · as Georges Duroy
• The Strange Woman1946 · as John Evered
• A Scandal in Paris1946 · as Eugéne François Vidocq
• The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry1945 · as Harry Melville Quincey
• The Picture of Dorian Gray1945 · as Lord Henry Wotton
• Hangover Square1945 · as Dr. Allan Middleton
• Summer Storm1944 · as Fedja Michailovitch Petroff
• Action in Arabia1944 · as Michael Gordon
• The Lodger1944 · as Inspector John Warwick
• Paris After Dark1943 · as Dr. Andre Marbel
• Appointment in Berlin1943 · as Keith Wilson
• This Land Is Mine1943 · as George Lambert
• They Came to Blow Up America1943 · as Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
• Quiet Please, Murder1943 · as Jim Fleg
• The Black Swan1942 · as Captain Billy Leech
• The Moon and Sixpence1942 · as Charles Strickland
• The Falcon's Brother1942 · as Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence
• Tales of Manhattan1942 · as Williams
• Her Cardboard Lover1942 · as Tony Barling
• The Falcon Takes Over1942 · as Gay Lawrence
• Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake1942 · as Sir Arthur Blake
• A Date with the Falcon1942 · as Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
• Sundown1941 · as Major A.L. Coombes
• The Gay Falcon1941 · as Gay Laurence / The Falcon
• Man Hunt1941 · as Major Quive-Smith
• Rage in Heaven1941 · as Ward Andrews
• The Saint In Palm Springs1941 · as Simon Templar
• The Son of Monte Cristo1940 · as Gurko Lanen
• Bitter Sweet1940 · as Baron Von Tranisch
• Foreign Correspondent1940 · as Scott ffolliott
• The Saint Takes Over1940 · as Simon Templar
• The House of the Seven Gables1940 · as Jaffrey Pyncheon
• Rebecca1940 · as Jack Favell
• The Saint's Double Trouble1940 · as Simon Templar
• Green Hell1940 · as Forrester
• Allegheny Uprising1939 · as Captain Swanson
• Nurse Edith Cavell1939 · as Capt. Heinrichs
• The Saint in London1939 · as Simon Templar
• Confessions of a Nazi Spy1939 · as Franz Schlager
• The Saint Strikes Back1939 · as Simon Templar
• So This Is London1939 · as Dr. de Reseke
• The Outsider1939 · as Anton Ragatzy
• Mr. Moto's Last Warning1939 · as Eric Norvel
• Four Men and a Prayer1938 · as Wyatt Leigh
• International Settlement1938 · as Del Forbes
• Lancer Spy1937 · as Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
• The Lady Escapes1937 · as Rene Blanchard
• Slave Ship1937 · as Lefty
• Love Is News1937 · as Count Andre de Guyon
• Lloyd's of London1936 · as Everett Stacy
• Dishonour Bright1936 · as Lisle
• The Man Who Could Work Miracles1936 · as Indifference - a God
• Things to Come1936 · as Celestial Body (uncredited)
• Love, Life and Laughter1934 · as Singer in Public Bar (uncredited)

All TV Shows (20)

• Mission: Impossible1966 · as Armand Anderssarian
• Batman1966 · as Mister Freeze
• Batman1966 · as Mister Freeze (uncredited)
• Daniel Boone1964 · as Col. Roger Barr
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E.1964 · as G. Emory Partridge
• The Rogues1964 · as Leonard Carvel
• Checkmate1960 · as Richard Gilmore
• The George Sanders Mystery Theater1957 · as Host
• The Dinah Shore Chevy Show1956 · as Self
• Screen Director's Playhouse1955 · as Charles Ferris
• The 20th Century Fox Hour1955 · as Waldo Lydecker
• The Jimmy Durante Show1954 · as Self
• Studio 571954 · as Dr. Grissom
• General Electric Theater1953 · as Dr. Grissom
• General Electric Theater1953 · as William Clark
• General Electric Theater1953 · as Major Watkins
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars1951 · as John York
• The Bob Hope Show1950 · as Self
• What's My Line?1950 · as Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show1948 · as Self