George Sanders
Birthday: 1906-07-03
Died: 1972-04-25
Birthplace: Saint 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.
Filmography
Character: Addison DeWitt
Character: Benjamin Ballon
Character: Alexander 'Alex' Joyce
Character: Celestial Body (uncredited)
Character: Robert Fleming
Character: Major Quive-Smith
Character: Gordon Zellaby
Character: Scott ffolliott
Character: Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
Character: De Bois-Guilbert
Character: Thomas Ayerton
Character: Jaffrey Pyncheon
Character: Andrew Lippincott
Character: Dr. Allan Middleton
Character: Inspector John Warwick
Character: Captain Billy Leech
Character: The Saran of Gaza
Character: Lord James Ashwood
Character: Harry Melville Quincey
Character: Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
Character: Albert Richter
Character: Capitaine Robert Adams
Character: Captain Swanson
Character: Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence
Character: Gay Laurence / The Falcon
Character: Sir Arthur Blake
Character: Clementi Sabourin
Character: Stuyvesant Nicholl
Character: George Lambert
Character: Lord Henry Wotton
Character: Cosmo Constantine
Character: King Richard I
Character: Fedja Michailovitch Petroff
Character: Charles Strickland
Character: Major A.L. Coombes
Character: Nicholas Strang
Character: Sir Charles Holland
Character: King Charles II
Character: Sir Charles Broward
Character: Michael Gordon
Character: King Charles II
Character: Raymond Fontaine
Character: Franz Schlager
Character: Capt. Heinrichs
Character: Baron Von Tranisch
Character: Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
Character: General Downes
Character: Gen. Armstrong
Character: Fabius Maximus
Character: Waldo Lydecker
Character: Eugéne François Vidocq
Character: Lord Robert Darlington
Character: Tim Waddington
Character: Professor Schlieben
Character: Dr. Jonathan Odell
Character: Dr. Andre Marbel
Character: Sir Arnold Hobbes
Character: Sir Francis Leybourne
Character: Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
Character: Principe Makowski
Character: Mike Alexander
Character: Singer in Public Bar
Character: Indifference - a God
Character: Count Andre de Guyon
Character: Captain Walter Phillips
Character: Waldo Lydecker
Character: Addison DeWitt (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (from All About Eve [1950]) (archive footage)
Character: Rene Blanchard