1906-07-03 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.
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Footsteps on the Ceiling | Addison DeWitt (archive footage) | 2013-01-01 |
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Ingrid Bergman Remembered | Self (archive footage) | 1996-04-06 |
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Death In Hollywood | (archive footage) | 1990-10-01 |
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Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend | Self (from All About Eve [1950]) (archive footage) | 1986-04-19 |
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Disney's Greatest Villains | Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage) | 1977-05-15 |
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Psychomania | Shadwell | 1973-03-01 |
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Endless Night | Andrew Lippincott | 1972-10-05 |
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Doomwatch | The Admiral | 1972-03-01 |
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The Kremlin Letter | Warlock | 1970-02-01 |
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Appuntamento col disonore | General Downes | 1970-08-06 |
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Die sieben Männer der Sumuru | Sir Masius | 1969-03-14 |
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The Best House in London | Sir Francis Leybourne | 1969-01-01 |
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The Body Stealers | Gen. Armstrong | 1969-03-21 |
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The Candy Man | Sidney Carter | 1969-02-01 |
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Caccia ai violenti | Captain Walter Phillips | 1968-04-14 |
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Laura | Waldo Lydecker | 1968-01-24 |
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Good Times | Mordicus | 1967-04-11 |
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Warning Shot | Calvin York | 1967-01-18 |
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The Jungle Book | Shere Khan the Tiger (voice) | 1967-10-18 |
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The Quiller Memorandum | Gibbs | 1966-11-10 |
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Einer spielt falsch | Professor Schlieben | 1966-06-02 |
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The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders | The Banker | 1965-05-26 |
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L'intrigo | Raymond Fontaine | 1964-02-05 |
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F.B.I. operazione Baalbeck | Principe Makowski | 1964-06-29 |
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Az aranyfej | 1964-08-22 | |
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A Shot in the Dark | Benjamin Ballon | 1964-06-23 |
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Il mondo di notte numero 3 | Narrator | 1963-11-15 |
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The Cracksman | Guv'nor | 1963-01-01 |
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Cairo | The Major | 1963-07-17 |
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In Search of the Castaways | Thomas Ayerton | 1962-12-01 |
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Operation Snatch | Maj. Hobson | 1962-03-01 |
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The Rebel | Sir Charles Broward | 1961-03-07 |
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Five Golden Hours | Mr. Bing | 1961-02-01 |
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Le Rendez-vous | Kellermann | 1961-11-10 |
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Cone of Silence | Sir Arnold Hobbes | 1960-05-10 |
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A Touch of Larceny | Sir Charles Holland | 1960-02-04 |
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The Last Voyage | Capitaine Robert Adams | 1960-02-19 |
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Il mondo di notte | 1960-04-05 | |
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Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons | Henri Landru | 1960-04-02 |
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Village of the Damned | Gordon Zellaby | 1960-06-16 |
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Solomon and Sheba | Adonijah | 1959-12-18 |
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That Kind of Woman | A.L. | 1959-09-11 |
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The Whole Truth | Carliss | 1958-07-29 |
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From the Earth to the Moon | Stuyvesant Nicholl | 1958-11-26 |
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The Seventh Sin | Tim Waddington | 1957-06-28 |
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The Dream | Baron | 1956-05-16 |
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Never Say Goodbye | Victor | 1956-03-10 |
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That Certain Feeling | Larry Larkin | 1956-06-04 |
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While the City Sleeps | Mark Loving | 1956-04-19 |
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The Bitter Waters | Charles Ferris | 1956-08-01 |
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Death of a Scoundrel | Clementi Sabourin | 1956-10-31 |
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Moonfleet | Lord James Ashwood | 1955-06-24 |
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Jupiter's Darling | Fabius Maximus | 1955-02-18 |
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The Scarlet Coat | Dr. Jonathan Odell | 1955-07-29 |
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The King's Thief | King Charles II | 1955-08-05 |
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Laura | Waldo Lydecker | 1955-10-19 |
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King Richard and the Crusaders | King Richard I | 1954-08-07 |
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Witness to Murder | Albert Richter | 1954-04-15 |
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Viaggio in Italia | Alexander 'Alex' Joyce | 1954-09-07 |
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Kort möte med familjen Rossellini | Self | 1953-09-24 |
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Call Me Madam | Cosmo Constantine | 1953-03-25 |
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Ivanhoe | De Bois-Guilbert | 1952-07-31 |
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Assignment: Paris | Nicholas Strang | 1952-09-04 |
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I Can Get It for You Wholesale | J F Noble | 1951-04-05 |
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The Light Touch | Felix Guignol | 1951-12-06 |
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All About Eve | Addison DeWitt | 1950-11-09 |
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Black Jack | Mike Alexander | 1950-11-20 |
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The Fan | Lord Robert Darlington | 1949-04-01 |
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Samson and Delilah | The Saran of Gaza | 1949-12-21 |
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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir | Miles Fairley | 1947-05-25 |
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Lured | Robert Fleming | 1947-08-28 |
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Forever Amber | King Charles II | 1947-10-10 |
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The Private Affairs of Bel Ami | Georges Duroy | 1947-04-25 |
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A Scandal in Paris | Eugéne François Vidocq | 1946-07-19 |
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The Strange Woman | John Evered | 1946-10-25 |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray | Lord Henry Wotton | 1945-03-03 |
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The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry | Harry Melville Quincey | 1945-08-17 |
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Hangover Square | Dr. Allan Middleton | 1945-02-07 |
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Action in Arabia | Michael Gordon | 1944-02-18 |
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Summer Storm | Fedja Michailovitch Petroff | 1944-07-14 |
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The Lodger | Inspector John Warwick | 1944-01-19 |
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Paris After Dark | Dr. Andre Marbel | 1943-10-15 |
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Appointment in Berlin | Keith Wilson | 1943-07-15 |
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Quiet Please, Murder | Jim Fleg | 1943-03-19 |
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This Land Is Mine | George Lambert | 1943-05-07 |
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They Came to Blow Up America | Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter | 1943-05-07 |
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A Date with the Falcon | Gay Lawrence / The Falcon | 1942-01-16 |
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Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake | Sir Arthur Blake | 1942-01-29 |
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The Falcon's Brother | Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence | 1942-10-02 |
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The Falcon Takes Over | Gay Lawrence | 1942-05-29 |
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The Black Swan | Captain Billy Leech | 1942-12-04 |
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The Moon and Sixpence | Charles Strickland | 1942-10-27 |
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Her Cardboard Lover | Tony Barling | 1942-07-16 |
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Tales of Manhattan | Williams | 1942-08-05 |
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Man Hunt | Major Quive-Smith | 1941-06-13 |
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Rage in Heaven | Ward Andrews | 1941-03-07 |
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The Gay Falcon | Gay Laurence / The Falcon | 1941-10-24 |
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The Saint In Palm Springs | Simon Templar | 1941-01-24 |
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Sundown | Major A.L. Coombes | 1941-10-31 |
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The Son of Monte Cristo | Gurko Lanen | 1940-12-05 |
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The House of the Seven Gables | Jaffrey Pyncheon | 1940-04-12 |
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The Saint Takes Over | Simon Templar | 1940-06-07 |
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Rebecca | Jack Favell | 1940-03-23 |
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Bitter Sweet | Baron Von Tranisch | 1940-11-08 |
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Foreign Correspondent | Scott ffolliott | 1940-08-16 |
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Green Hell | Forrester | 1940-01-26 |
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The Saint's Double Trouble | Simon Templar | 1940-01-26 |
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The Outsider | Anton Ragatzy | 1939-01-30 |
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The Saint in London | Simon Templar | 1939-06-30 |
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy | Franz Schlager | 1939-05-06 |
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Allegheny Uprising | Captain Swanson | 1939-11-10 |
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So This Is London | Dr. de Reseke | 1939-03-01 |
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Nurse Edith Cavell | Capt. Heinrichs | 1939-08-31 |
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The Saint Strikes Back | Simon Templar | 1939-03-08 |
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Mr. Moto's Last Warning | Eric Norvel | 1939-01-20 |
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International Settlement | Del Forbes | 1938-02-04 |
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Four Men and a Prayer | Wyatt Leigh | 1938-04-29 |
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Love Is News | Count Andre de Guyon | 1937-02-26 |
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The Lady Escapes | Rene Blanchard | 1937-07-22 |
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Slave Ship | Lefty | 1937-06-16 |
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Lancer Spy | Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce | 1937-10-08 |
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The Man Who Could Work Miracles | Indifference - a God | 1936-07-23 |
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Lloyd's of London | Everett Stacy | 1936-11-25 |
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Things to Come | Celestial Body (uncredited) | 1936-03-31 |
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Dishonour Bright | Lisle | 1936-09-21 |
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Love, Life and Laughter | Singer in Public Bar | 1934-03-01 |
