George Sanders

from Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Artwork for The Jungle BookImage of 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.

Timeline

2013Aged 107

  • Poster for Footsteps on the Ceiling

    Addison DeWitt (archive footage)

1996Aged 90

  • Poster for Ingrid Bergman Remembered

    Self (archive footage)

1990Aged 84

  • Poster for Death In Hollywood

    (Unknown)

1977Aged 71

  • Poster for Disney's Greatest Villains

    Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)

1976Aged 70

1973Aged 67

  • Poster for Psychomania

    Shadwell

1972Aged 66

  • Poster for Doomwatch

    The Admiral

  • Poster for Endless Night

    Andrew Lippincott

1970Aged 64

  • Poster for The Kremlin Letter

    Warlock

  • Poster for The Night of the Assassin

    General Downes

1969Aged 63

  • Poster for The Candy Man

    Sidney Carter

  • Poster for The Girl from Rio

    Sir Masius

  • Poster for The Body Stealers

    Gen. Armstrong

  • Poster for The Best House in London

    Sir Francis Leybourne

1968Aged 62

  • Poster for Laura

    Waldo Lydecker

  • Poster for One Step to Hell

    Captain Walter Phillips

1967Aged 61

  • Poster for Warning Shot

    Calvin York

  • Poster for Good Times

    Mordicus

  • Poster for The Jungle Book

    Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)

1966Aged 60

  • Poster for Trunk to Cairo

    Professor Schlieben

  • Poster for The Quiller Memorandum

    Gibbs

1965Aged 59

  • Poster for The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

    The Banker

1964Aged 58

  • Poster for Dark Purpose

    Raymond Fontaine

  • Poster for A Shot in the Dark

    Benjamin Ballon

  • Poster for F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck

    Principe Makowski

  • Poster for The Golden Head

    Basil Palmer

1963Aged 57

  • Poster for The Cracksman

    Guv'nor

  • Poster for Cairo

    The Major

  • Poster for Ecco

    Narrator

1962Aged 56

  • Poster for Operation Snatch

    Maj. Hobson

  • Poster for In Search of the Castaways

    Thomas Ayerton

1961Aged 55

  • Poster for Five Golden Hours

    Mr. Bing

  • Poster for The Rebel

    Sir Charles Broward

  • Poster for Rendezvous

    Kellermann

1960Aged 54

  • Poster for A Touch of Larceny

    Sir Charles Holland

  • Poster for The Last Voyage

    Capitaine Robert Adams

  • Poster for Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons

    Henri Landru

  • Poster for World by Night

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Cone of Silence

    Sir Arnold Hobbes

  • Poster for Village of the Damned

    Gordon Zellaby

1959Aged 53

  • Poster for That Kind of Woman

    A.L.

  • Poster for Solomon and Sheba

    Adonijah

1958Aged 52

  • Poster for The Whole Truth

    Carliss

  • Poster for From the Earth to the Moon

    Stuyvesant Nicholl

1957Aged 51

  • Poster for The Seventh Sin

    Tim Waddington

1956Aged 50

1955Aged 49

  • Poster for Jupiter's Darling

    Fabius Maximus

  • Poster for Moonfleet

    Lord James Ashwood

  • Poster for The Scarlet Coat

    Dr. Jonathan Odell

  • Poster for The King's Thief

    King Charles II

  • Poster for Laura

    Waldo Lydecker

1954Aged 48

  • Poster for Witness to Murder

    Albert Richter

  • Poster for King Richard and the Crusaders

    King Richard I

  • Poster for Journey to Italy

    Alex Joyce

  • Poster for The Unholy Four

    Novel

1953Aged 47

  • Poster for Call Me Madam

    Cosmo Constantine

  • Poster for A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family

    Self

1952Aged 46

  • Poster for Ivanhoe

    Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert

  • Poster for Assignment: Paris

    Nicholas Strang

1951Aged 45

  • Poster for I Can Get It for You Wholesale

    J F Noble

  • Poster for The Light Touch

    Felix Guignol

1950Aged 44

  • Poster for All About Eve

    Addison DeWitt

  • Poster for Black Jack

    Mike Alexander

1949Aged 43

  • Poster for The Fan

    Lord Robert Darlington

  • Poster for Samson and Delilah

    The Saran of Gaza

1947Aged 41

  • Poster for The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

    Georges Duroy

  • Poster for The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

    Miles Fairley

  • Poster for Lured

    Robert Fleming

  • Poster for Forever Amber

    King Charles II

1946Aged 40

  • Poster for A Scandal in Paris

    Eugéne François Vidocq

  • Poster for The Strange Woman

    John Evered

1945Aged 39

  • Poster for Hangover Square

    Dr. Allan Middleton

  • Poster for The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Lord Henry Wotton

  • Poster for The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

    Harry Melville Quincey

1944Aged 38

  • Poster for The Lodger

    Inspector John Warwick

  • Poster for Action in Arabia

    Michael Gordon

  • Poster for Summer Storm

    Fedja Michailovitch Petroff

1943Aged 37

  • Poster for Quiet Please, Murder

    Jim Fleg

  • Poster for They Came to Blow Up America

    Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter

  • Poster for This Land Is Mine

    George Lambert

  • Poster for Appointment in Berlin

    Keith Wilson

  • Poster for Paris After Dark

    Dr. Andre Marbel

1942Aged 36

  • Poster for A Date with the Falcon

    Gay Lawrence / The Falcon

  • Poster for Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

    Sir Arthur Blake

  • Poster for The Falcon Takes Over

    Gay Lawrence

  • Poster for Her Cardboard Lover

    Tony Barling

  • Poster for Tales of Manhattan

    Williams

  • Poster for The Falcon's Brother

    Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence

  • Poster for The Moon and Sixpence

    Charles Strickland

  • Poster for The Black Swan

    Captain Billy Leech

1941Aged 35

  • Poster for The Saint In Palm Springs

    Simon Templar

  • Poster for Rage in Heaven

    Ward Andrews

  • Poster for Man Hunt

    Major Quive-Smith

  • Poster for The Gay Falcon

    Gay Laurence / The Falcon

  • Poster for Sundown

    Major A.L. Coombes

1940Aged 34

  • Poster for Green Hell

    Forrester

  • Poster for The Saint's Double Trouble

    Simon Templar

  • Poster for Rebecca

    Jack Favell

  • Poster for The House of the Seven Gables

    Jaffrey Pyncheon

  • Poster for The Saint Takes Over

    Simon Templar

  • Poster for Foreign Correspondent

    Scott ffolliott

  • Poster for Bitter Sweet

    Baron Von Tranisch

  • Poster for The Son of Monte Cristo

    Gurko Lanen

1939Aged 33

  • Poster for Mr. Moto's Last Warning

    Eric Norvel

  • Poster for The Outsider

    Anton Ragatzy

  • Poster for So This Is London

    Dr. de Reseke

  • Poster for The Saint Strikes Back

    Simon Templar

  • Poster for Confessions of a Nazi Spy

    Franz Schlager

  • Poster for The Saint in London

    Simon Templar

  • Poster for Nurse Edith Cavell

    Capt. Heinrichs

  • Poster for Allegheny Uprising

    Captain Swanson

1938Aged 32

  • Poster for International Settlement

    Del Forbes

  • Poster for Four Men and a Prayer

    Wyatt Leigh

1937Aged 31

  • Poster for Love Is News

    Count Andre de Guyon

  • Poster for Slave Ship

    Lefty

  • Poster for The Lady Escapes

    Rene Blanchard

  • Poster for Lancer Spy

    Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce

1936Aged 30

  • Poster for Things to Come

    Celestial Body (uncredited)

  • Poster for The Man Who Could Work Miracles

    Indifference - a God

  • Poster for Dishonour Bright

    Lisle

  • Poster for Lloyd's of London

    Everett Stacy

1934Aged 28

  • Poster for Love, Life and Laughter

    Singer in Public Bar (uncredited)