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George Sanders

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1973
Psychomania

as    Shadwell

1972
Endless Night

as    Andrew Lippincott

1972
Doomwatch

as    The Admiral

1970
The Kremlin Letter

as    Warlock

1969
One Step to Hell

as    Captain Walter Phillips

1969
The Body Stealers

as    Gen. Armstrong

1968
Laura

as    Waldo Lydecker

1967
Warning Shot

as    Calvin York

1967
Good Times

as    Mordicus

1967
The Jungle Book

as    Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)

1966
Trunk to Cairo

as    Professor Schlieben

1965
1964
A Shot in the Dark

as    Benjamin Ballon

1964
Dark Purpose

as    Raymond Fontaine

1963
Ecco

as    Narrator

1962
In Search of the Castaways

as    Thomas Ayerton

1960
The Last Voyage

as    Capitaine Robert Adams

1959
That Kind of Woman

as    A.L.

1959
Solomon and Sheba

as    Adonijah

1958
The Whole Truth

as    Carliss

1958
From the Earth to the Moon

as    Stuyvesant Nicholl

1956
While the City Sleeps

as    Mark Loving

1955
The Scarlet Coat

as    Dr. Jonathan Odell

1955
Jupiter's Darling

as    Fabius Maximus

1955
The King's Thief

as    King Charles II

1955
Moonfleet

as    Lord James Ashwood

1954
Witness to Murder

as    Albert Richter

1954
King Richard and the Crusaders

as    King Richard I

1953
Call Me Madam

as    Cosmo Constantine

1952
Ivanhoe

as    De Bois-Guilbert