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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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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Doomwatch | The Admiral | 1972-03-01 |
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Endless Night | Andrew Lippincott | 1972-10-05 |
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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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The Candy Man | Sidney Carter | 1969-02-01 |
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Die sieben Männer der Sumuru | Sir Masius | 1969-03-14 |
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The Body Stealers | Gen. Armstrong | 1969-03-21 |
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The Best House in London | Sir Francis Leybourne | 1969-06-01 |
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Laura | Waldo Lydecker | 1968-01-24 |
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Caccia ai violenti | Captain Walter Phillips | 1968-04-14 |
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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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Einer spielt falsch | Professor Schlieben | 1966-06-02 |
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The Quiller Memorandum | Gibbs | 1966-11-10 |
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The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders | The Banker | 1965-05-26 |
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Az aranyfej | 1964-08-22 | |
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L'intrigo | Raymond Fontaine | 1964-02-05 |
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A Shot in the Dark | Benjamin Ballon | 1964-06-23 |
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F.B.I. operazione Baalbeck | Principe Makowski | 1964-06-29 |
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Il mondo di notte numero 3 | Narrator | 1963-11-15 |
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Cairo | The Major | 1963-07-17 |
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The Cracksman | Guv'nor | 1963-01-01 |
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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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Il mondo di notte | 1960-04-05 | |
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Cone of Silence | Sir Arnold Hobbes | 1960-05-10 |
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Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons | Henri Landru | 1960-04-02 |
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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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Village of the Damned | Gordon Zellaby | 1960-06-16 |
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That Kind of Woman | A.L. | 1959-09-11 |
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Solomon and Sheba | Adonijah | 1959-10-27 |
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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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While the City Sleeps | Mark Loving | 1956-04-19 |
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Death of a Scoundrel | Clementi Sabourin | 1956-10-31 |
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The Dream | Baron | 1956-05-16 |
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The Bitter Waters | Charles Ferris | 1956-08-01 |
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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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Laura | Waldo Lydecker | 1955-10-19 |
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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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Moonfleet | Lord James Ashwood | 1955-06-24 |
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Jupiter's Darling | Fabius Maximus | 1955-02-18 |
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Witness to Murder | Albert Richter | 1954-04-15 |
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King Richard and the Crusaders | King Richard I | 1954-08-07 |
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Viaggio in Italia | Alexander 'Alex' Joyce | 1954-09-07 |
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Call Me Madam | Cosmo Constantine | 1953-03-25 |
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Kort möte med familjen Rossellini | Self | 1953-09-24 |
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Assignment: Paris | Nicholas Strang | 1952-09-04 |
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Ivanhoe | Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert | 1952-07-31 |
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The Light Touch | Felix Guignol | 1951-12-06 |
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I Can Get It for You Wholesale | J F Noble | 1951-04-05 |
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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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The Private Affairs of Bel Ami | Georges Duroy | 1947-04-25 |
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Forever Amber | King Charles II | 1947-10-10 |
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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 Strange Affair of Uncle Harry | Harry Melville Quincey | 1945-08-17 |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray | Lord Henry Wotton | 1945-03-03 |
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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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They Came to Blow Up America | Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter | 1943-05-07 |
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This Land Is Mine | George Lambert | 1943-05-07 |
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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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Paris After Dark | Dr. Andre Marbel | 1943-10-15 |
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Tales of Manhattan | Williams | 1942-08-05 |
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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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A Date with the Falcon | Gay Lawrence / The Falcon | 1942-01-16 |
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The Falcon's Brother | Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence | 1942-10-02 |
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Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake | Sir Arthur Blake | 1942-01-29 |
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Her Cardboard Lover | Tony Barling | 1942-07-16 |
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The Moon and Sixpence | Charles Strickland | 1942-10-27 |
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The Gay Falcon | Gay Laurence / The Falcon | 1941-10-24 |
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Sundown | Major A.L. Coombes | 1941-10-31 |
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Rage in Heaven | Ward Andrews | 1941-03-07 |
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The Saint In Palm Springs | Simon Templar | 1941-01-24 |
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Man Hunt | Major Quive-Smith | 1941-06-13 |
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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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The Saint Takes Over | Simon Templar | 1940-06-07 |
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Green Hell | Forrester | 1940-01-26 |
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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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Rebecca | Jack Favell | 1940-03-23 |
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The Saint's Double Trouble | Simon Templar | 1940-01-26 |
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So This Is London | Dr. de Reseke | 1939-03-01 |
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Mr. Moto's Last Warning | Eric Norvel | 1939-01-20 |
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The Saint Strikes Back | Simon Templar | 1939-03-08 |
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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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Nurse Edith Cavell | Capt. Heinrichs | 1939-08-31 |
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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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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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Lancer Spy | Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce | 1937-10-08 |
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Slave Ship | Lefty | 1937-06-16 |
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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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Things to Come | Celestial Body (uncredited) | 1936-03-31 |
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Dishonour Bright | Lisle | 1936-09-21 |
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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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Love, Life and Laughter | Singer in Public Bar (uncredited) | 1934-03-01 |
