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.
Personal Details
Movies (43)
Footsteps on the Ceiling
as Addison DeWitt (archive footage)
2013
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
as Self (archive footage)
1996
Disney's Greatest Villains
as Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)
1977
Psychomania
as Shadwell
1973
Endless Night
as Andrew Lippincott
1972
Doomwatch
as The Admiral
1972
The Night of the Assassin
as General Downes
1970
The Kremlin Letter
as Warlock
1970
The Best House in London
as Sir Francis Leybourne
1969
The Body Stealers
as Gen. Armstrong
1969
The Girl from Rio
as Sir Masius
1969
The Candy Man
as Sidney Carter
1969
One Step to Hell
as Captain Walter Phillips
1968
Laura
as Waldo Lydecker
1968
The Jungle Book
as Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
1967
Good Times
as Mordicus
1967
Warning Shot
as Calvin York
1967
The Quiller Memorandum
as Gibbs
1966
Trunk to Cairo
as Professor Schlieben
1966
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
as The Banker
1965
The Golden Head
1964
F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck
as Principe Makowski
1964
A Shot in the Dark
as Benjamin Ballon
1964
Dark Purpose
as Raymond Fontaine
1964
Ecco
as Narrator
1963
Cairo
as The Major
1963
The Cracksman
as Guv'nor
1963
In Search of the Castaways
as Thomas Ayerton
1962
Operation Snatch
as Maj. Hobson
1962
Rendezvous
as Kellermann
1961
The Rebel
as Sir Charles Broward
1961
Five Golden Hours
as Mr. Bing
1961
Village of the Damned
as Gordon Zellaby
1960
Cone of Silence
as Sir Arnold Hobbes
1960
World by Night
1960
Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
as Henri Landru
1960
The Last Voyage
as Capitaine Robert Adams
1960
A Touch of Larceny
as Sir Charles Holland
1960
Solomon and Sheba
as Adonijah
1959
That Kind of Woman
as A.L.
1959
From the Earth to the Moon
as Stuyvesant Nicholl
1958
The Whole Truth
as Carliss
1958
The Seventh Sin
as Tim Waddington
1957
