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 | 1990-10-01 | |
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Disney's Greatest Villains | Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage) | 1977-05-15 |
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Bob Hope's World of Comedy | Self (archive footage) | 1976-10-29 |
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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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Appuntamento col disonore | General Downes | 1970-08-06 |
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The Kremlin Letter | Warlock | 1970-02-01 |
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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 Best House in London | Sir Francis Leybourne | 1969-06-01 |
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The Body Stealers | Gen. Armstrong | 1969-03-21 |
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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 | Basil Palmer | 1964-08-22 |
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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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A Shot in the Dark | Benjamin Ballon | 1964-06-23 |
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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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Il mondo di notte numero 3 | Narrator | 1963-11-15 |
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Operation Snatch | Maj. Hobson | 1962-03-01 |
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In Search of the Castaways | Thomas Ayerton | 1962-12-01 |
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Le Rendez-vous | Kellermann | 1961-11-10 |
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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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Village of the Damned | Gordon Zellaby | 1960-06-16 |
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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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The Last Voyage | Capitaine Robert Adams | 1960-02-19 |
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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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That Kind of Woman | A.L. | 1959-09-11 |
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Solomon and Sheba | Adonijah | 1959-10-27 |
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From the Earth to the Moon | Stuyvesant Nicholl | 1958-11-26 |
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The Whole Truth | Carliss | 1958-07-29 |
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The Seventh Sin | Tim Waddington | 1957-06-28 |
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That Certain Feeling | Larry Larkin | 1956-06-04 |
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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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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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The Scarlet Coat | Dr. Jonathan Odell | 1955-07-29 |
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Laura | Waldo Lydecker | 1955-10-19 |
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Jupiter's Darling | Fabius Maximus | 1955-02-18 |
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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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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 | Alex Joyce | 1954-09-08 |
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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 | Sir Brian 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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Lured | Robert Fleming | 1947-08-28 |
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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir | Miles Fairley | 1947-05-25 |
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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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The Strange Woman | John Evered | 1946-10-25 |
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A Scandal in Paris | Eugéne François Vidocq | 1946-07-19 |
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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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Quiet Please, Murder | Jim Fleg | 1943-03-19 |
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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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Paris After Dark | Dr. Andre Marbel | 1943-10-15 |
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A Date with the Falcon | Gay Lawrence / The Falcon | 1942-01-16 |
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The Falcon Takes Over | Gay Lawrence | 1942-05-29 |
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Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake | Sir Arthur Blake | 1942-01-29 |
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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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The Falcon's Brother | Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence | 1942-10-02 |
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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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Man Hunt | Major Quive-Smith | 1941-06-13 |
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Rage in Heaven | Ward Andrews | 1941-03-07 |
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Foreign Correspondent | Scott ffolliott | 1940-08-16 |
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The House of the Seven Gables | Jaffrey Pyncheon | 1940-04-12 |
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The Saint's Double Trouble | Simon Templar | 1940-01-26 |
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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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Bitter Sweet | Baron Von Tranisch | 1940-11-08 |
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Rebecca | Jack Favell | 1940-03-23 |
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The Saint Takes Over | Simon Templar | 1940-06-07 |
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The Saint in London | Simon Templar | 1939-06-30 |
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The Outsider | Anton Ragatzy | 1939-01-30 |
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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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Confessions of a Nazi Spy | Franz Schlager | 1939-05-06 |
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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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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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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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Things to Come | Celestial Body (uncredited) | 1936-03-31 |
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Love, Life and Laughter | Singer in Public Bar (uncredited) | 1934-03-01 |
