George Sanders
Birthday: 1906-07-03 | Place of Birth: St. 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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Shadwell
as Andrew Lippincott
as The Admiral
as Warlock
as Captain Walter Phillips
as Gen. Armstrong
as Waldo Lydecker
as Calvin York
as Mordicus
as Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
as Professor Schlieben
as The Banker
as Benjamin Ballon
as Raymond Fontaine
as Narrator
as Thomas Ayerton
as Capitaine Robert Adams
as A.L.
as Adonijah
as Carliss
as Stuyvesant Nicholl
as Mark Loving
as Dr. Jonathan Odell
as Fabius Maximus
as King Charles II
as Lord James Ashwood
as Albert Richter
as King Richard I
as Cosmo Constantine
as De Bois-Guilbert