Birthday
1906/07/03
Day of death
1972/04/25 (65 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Also know as
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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...Read more
(1940) Rebecca
as Jack Favell
(1964) A Shot in the Dark
as Benjamin Ballon
(1950) All About Eve
as Addison DeWitt
(1936) Things to Come
as Celestial Body (uncredited)
(1954) Journey to Italy
as Alexander 'Alex' Joyce
(1996) Ingrid Bergman Remembered
as Self (archive footage)
(1947) Lured
as Robert Fleming
(1947) The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
as Miles Fairley
(1941) Man Hunt
as Major Quive-Smith
(1960) Village of the Damned
as Gordon Zellaby
(1941) Rage in Heaven
as Ward Andrews
(1940) Foreign Correspondent
as Scott ffolliott
(1967) The Jungle Book
as Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
(1952) Ivanhoe
as De Bois-Guilbert
(1946) The Strange Woman
as John Evered
(1942) Tales of Manhattan
as Williams
(1962) In Search of the Castaways
as Thomas Ayerton
(1972) Endless Night
as Andrew Lippincott
(1940) The House of the Seven Gables
as Jaffrey Pyncheon
(1944) The Lodger
as Inspector John Warwick
(1945) Hangover Square
as Dr. Allan Middleton
(1943) Quiet Please, Murder
as Jim Fleg
(1942) The Black Swan
as Captain Billy Leech
(1955) Moonfleet
as Lord James Ashwood
(1949) Samson and Delilah
as The Saran of Gaza
(1959) Solomon and Sheba
as Adonijah
(1956) While the City Sleeps
as Mark Loving
(1969) The Girl from Rio
as Sir Masius
(1945) The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
as Harry Melville Quincey
(1954) Witness to Murder
as Albert Richter
(1942) A Date with the Falcon
as Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
(1939) Allegheny Uprising
as Captain Swanson
(1942) Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
as Sir Arthur Blake
(1960) The Last Voyage
as Capitaine Robert Adams
(1956) Death of a Scoundrel
as Clementi Sabourin
(1942) The Falcon's Brother
as Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence
(1941) The Gay Falcon
as Gay Laurence / The Falcon
(1942) The Falcon Takes Over
as Gay Lawrence
(1958) From the Earth to the Moon
as Stuyvesant Nicholl
(1943) This Land Is Mine
as George Lambert
(1940) The Saint's Double Trouble
as Simon Templar
(1970) The Kremlin Letter
as Warlock
(1945) The Picture of Dorian Gray
as Lord Henry Wotton
(1953) Call Me Madam
as Cosmo Constantine
(1966) The Quiller Memorandum
as Gibbs
(1939) The Saint Strikes Back
as Simon Templar
(1973) Psychomania
as Shadwell
(1943) Appointment in Berlin
as Keith Wilson
(1939) Mr. Moto's Last Warning
as Eric Norvel
(1940) The Son of Monte Cristo
as Gurko Lanen
(1954) King Richard and the Crusaders
as King Richard I
(1944) Summer Storm
as Fedja Michailovitch Petroff
(1936) Lloyd's of London
as Everett Stacy
(1961) Five Golden Hours
as Mr. Bing
(1940) The Saint Takes Over
as Simon Templar
(1951) I Can Get It for You Wholesale
as J F Noble
(1942) The Moon and Sixpence
as Charles Strickland
(1941) The Saint In Palm Springs
as Simon Templar
(1939) The Saint in London
as Simon Templar
(1941) Sundown
as Major A.L. Coombes
(1952) Assignment: Paris
as Nicholas Strang
(1960) A Touch of Larceny
as Sir Charles Holland
(1944) Action in Arabia
as Michael Gordon
(1967) Warning Shot
as Calvin York
(1955) The King's Thief
as King Charles II
(1942) Her Cardboard Lover
as Tony Barling
(1961) The Rebel
as Sir Charles Broward
(1965) The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
as The Banker
(1940) Bitter Sweet
as Baron Von Tranisch
(1947) Forever Amber
as King Charles II
(1964) Dark Purpose
as Raymond Fontaine
(1939) Confessions of a Nazi Spy
as Franz Schlager
(1970) The Night of the Assassin
as General Downes
(1937) Lancer Spy
as Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
(1969) The Body Stealers
as Gen. Armstrong
(1972) Doomwatch
as The Admiral
(1955) Jupiter's Darling
as Fabius Maximus
(1938) Four Men and a Prayer
as Wyatt Leigh
(1958) The Whole Truth
as Carliss
(1947) The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
as Georges Duroy
(1946) A Scandal in Paris
as Eugéne François Vidocq
(1968) Laura
as Waldo Lydecker
(1949) The Fan
as Lord Robert Darlington
(1940) Green Hell
as Forrester
(1963) Cairo
as The Major
(1956) That Certain Feeling
as Larry Larkin
(1937) Slave Ship
as Lefty
(1956) Never Say Goodbye
as Victor
(1957) The Seventh Sin
as Tim Waddington
(1966) Trunk to Cairo
as Professor Schlieben
(1955) The Scarlet Coat
as Dr. Jonathan Odell
(1951) The Light Touch
as Felix Guignol
(1968) One Step to Hell
as Captain Walter Phillips
(1959) That Kind of Woman
as A.L.
(1960) Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
as Henri Landru
(1986) Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
as Self (from All About Eve [1950]) (archive footage)
(1938) International Settlement
as Del Forbes
(1943) Paris After Dark
as Dr. Andre Marbel
(1960) Cone of Silence
as Sir Arnold Hobbes
(1939) Nurse Edith Cavell
as Capt. Heinrichs
(1969) The Best House in London
as Sir Francis Leybourne
(1963) The Cracksman
as Guv'nor
(1943) They Came to Blow Up America
as Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
(1964) F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck
as Principe Makowski
(1936) Dishonour Bright
as Lisle
(1967) Good Times
as Mordicus
(1950) Black Jack
as Mike Alexander
(1934) Love, Life and Laughter
as Singer in Public Bar
(1937) The Lady Escapes
as Rene Blanchard
(1936) The Man Who Could Work Miracles
as Indifference - a God
(1963) Ecco
as Narrator
(1939) So This Is London
as Dr. de Reseke
(1964) The Golden Head
as ---
(1939) The Outsider
as Anton Ragatzy
(1937) Love Is News
as Count Andre de Guyon
(1962) Operation Snatch
as Maj. Hobson
(1969) The Candy Man
as Sidney Carter
(1961) Rendezvous
as Kellermann
(1953) A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family
as Self
(1955) Laura
as Waldo Lydecker
(2013) Footsteps on the Ceiling
as Addison DeWitt (archive footage)
(1956) The Dream
as Baron
(1956) The Bitter Waters
as Charles Ferris
(1977) Disney's Greatest Villains
as Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)
(1966) Batman
as Mister Freeze
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Dr. Grissom
(1966) Mission: Impossible
as Armand Anderssarian
(1964) Daniel Boone
as Col. Roger Barr
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as John York
(1956) The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self
(1957) The George Sanders Mystery Theater
as Host
(1954) The Jimmy Durante Show
as Self
(1964) The Rogues
as Leonard Carvel
(1953) General Electric Theater
as William Clark
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Major Watkins
(1950) The Bob Hope Show
as Self
(1948) The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
(1960) Checkmate
as Richard Gilmore
(1964) The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as G. Emory Partridge
(1955) Screen Director's Playhouse
as Charles Ferris
(1950) What's My Line?
as Self - Panelist
(1950) What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
(1955) The 20th Century Fox Hour
as Waldo Lydecker
(1954) Studio 57
as Dr. Grissom