George Sanders
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.
Known for
ActingBirthday
July 3, 1906Deathday
April 25, 1972Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
122Place of birth
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Cast credits
Rebecca
Jack Favell
All About Eve
Addison DeWitt
A Shot in the Dark
Benjamin Ballon
Journey to Italy
Alexander 'Alex' Joyce
Things to Come
Celestial Body (uncredited)
Lured
Robert Fleming
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Miles Fairley
Man Hunt
Major Quive-Smith
Rage in Heaven
Ward Andrews
Village of the Damned
Gordon Zellaby
Foreign Correspondent
Scott ffolliott
The Jungle Book
Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
Ivanhoe
De Bois-Guilbert
The Strange Woman
John Evered
Tales of Manhattan
Williams
In Search of the Castaways
Thomas Ayerton
The House of the Seven Gables
Jaffrey Pyncheon
Endless Night
Andrew Lippincott
Hangover Square
Dr. Allan Middleton
The Lodger
Inspector John Warwick
Quiet Please, Murder
Jim FlegCrew credits
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