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George Sanders

Profession
Acting
Born
July 3, 1906 · Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Died
April 25, 1972

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.

Known for

The Jungle Book poster
The Jungle Book
Film · 1967 · ★ 7.3
Rebecca poster
Rebecca
Film · 1940 · ★ 7.9
All About Eve poster
All About Eve
Film · 1950 · ★ 8.1
A Shot in the Dark poster
A Shot in the Dark
Film · 1964 · ★ 7.2
Batman poster
Batman
Series · 1966 · ★ 7.3
Village of the Damned poster
Village of the Damned
Film · 1960 · ★ 7.2
Foreign Correspondent poster
Foreign Correspondent
Film · 1940 · ★ 7.0
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir poster
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Film · 1947 · ★ 7.5
Journey to Italy poster
Journey to Italy
Film · 1954 · ★ 7.2
Mission: Impossible poster
Mission: Impossible
Series · 1966 · ★ 7.6
The Picture of Dorian Gray poster
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Film · 1945 · ★ 7.1
Samson and Delilah poster
Samson and Delilah
Film · 1949 · ★ 6.6

Filmography