Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1906-07-03
Day of Death
1972-04-25
Place of Birth
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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.
Filmography (126)
Footsteps on the Ceiling
2013
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
1996
Death In Hollywood
1990
Disney's Greatest Villains
1977Bob Hope's World of Comedy
1976
Psychomania
1973
Endless Night
1972
Doomwatch
1972
The Night of the Assassin
1970
The Kremlin Letter
1970
The Best House in London
1969
The Body Stealers
1969
The Girl from Rio
1969
The Candy Man
1969
