
Acting
Born July 3, 1906 · 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.

Footsteps on the Ceiling
2013

Ingrid Bergman Remembered
1996

Disney's Greatest Villains
1977

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

One Step to Hell
1968

Laura
1968

The Jungle Book
1967

Good Times
1967

Warning Shot
1967

The Quiller Memorandum
1966

Trunk to Cairo
1966

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
1965

The Golden Head
1964

F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck
1964

A Shot in the Dark
1964

Dark Purpose
1964

Ecco
1963

Cairo
1963

The Cracksman
1963

In Search of the Castaways
1962

Operation Snatch
1962

Rendezvous
1961

The Rebel
1961

Five Golden Hours
1961

Village of the Damned
1960

Cone of Silence
1960

World by Night
1960

Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
1960

The Last Voyage
1960

A Touch of Larceny
1960

Solomon and Sheba
1959

That Kind of Woman
1959

From the Earth to the Moon
1958

The Whole Truth
1958

The Seventh Sin
1957

Death of a Scoundrel
1956
The Bitter Waters
1956

That Certain Feeling
1956
The Dream
1956

While the City Sleeps
1956

Never Say Goodbye
1956

Laura
1955

The King's Thief
1955

The Scarlet Coat
1955

Moonfleet
1955

Jupiter's Darling
1955

Journey to Italy
1954

King Richard and the Crusaders
1954

Witness to Murder
1954

A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family
1953

Call Me Madam
1953

Assignment: Paris
1952

Ivanhoe
1952

The Light Touch
1951

I Can Get It for You Wholesale
1951

Black Jack
1950

All About Eve
1950

Samson and Delilah
1949

The Fan
1949

Forever Amber
1947

Lured
1947

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
1947

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
1947

The Strange Woman
1946

A Scandal in Paris
1946

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
1945

The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945

Hangover Square
1945

Summer Storm
1944

Action in Arabia
1944

The Lodger
1944

Paris After Dark
1943

Appointment in Berlin
1943

This Land Is Mine
1943

They Came to Blow Up America
1943

Quiet Please, Murder
1943

The Black Swan
1942

The Moon and Sixpence
1942

The Falcon's Brother
1942

Tales of Manhattan
1942

Her Cardboard Lover
1942

The Falcon Takes Over
1942

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1942

A Date with the Falcon
1942

Sundown
1941

The Gay Falcon
1941

Man Hunt
1941

Rage in Heaven
1941

The Saint In Palm Springs
1941

The Son of Monte Cristo
1940

Bitter Sweet
1940

Foreign Correspondent
1940

The Saint Takes Over
1940

The House of the Seven Gables
1940

Rebecca
1940

The Saint's Double Trouble
1940

Green Hell
1940

Allegheny Uprising
1939

Nurse Edith Cavell
1939

The Saint in London
1939

Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939

The Saint Strikes Back
1939

So This Is London
1939

The Outsider
1939

Mr. Moto's Last Warning
1939

Four Men and a Prayer
1938

International Settlement
1938

Lancer Spy
1937

The Lady Escapes
1937

Slave Ship
1937

Love Is News
1937

Lloyd's of London
1936

Dishonour Bright
1936

The Man Who Could Work Miracles
1936

Things to Come
1936

Love, Life and Laughter
1934