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George Sanders

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British actor (1906-1972)

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George Henry Sanders was a British actor and singer whose career spanned over 40 years. His heavy, upper-class English accent and smooth bass voice often led him to be cast as sophisticated but villainous characters.

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Filmography 40

The Jungle Book1967 · ★ 7.3
Rebecca1940 · ★ 7.9
All About Eve1950 · ★ 8.1
A Shot in the Dark1964 · ★ 7.2
Village of the Damned1960 · ★ 7.2
Samson and Delilah1949 · ★ 6.6
Foreign Correspondent1940 · ★ 7.0
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir1947 · ★ 7.5
The Picture of Dorian Gray1945 · ★ 7.1
Ivanhoe1952 · ★ 6.8
Journey to Italy1954 · ★ 7.3
Things to Come1936 · ★ 6.5
The Black Swan1942 · ★ 6.5
While the City Sleeps1956 · ★ 6.9
Solomon and Sheba1959 · ★ 6.4
Man Hunt1941 · ★ 6.9
Moonfleet1955 · ★ 6.5
The Lodger1944 · ★ 6.5
The Quiller Memorandum1966 · ★ 5.9
Lured1947 · ★ 6.3
The Strange Woman1946
In Search of the Castaways1962 · ★ 6.5
Hangover Square1945 · ★ 7.0
Endless Night1972 · ★ 6.1
Witness to Murder1954 · ★ 6.3
This Land Is Mine1943 · ★ 7.2
Psychomania1973 · ★ 5.5
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry1945 · ★ 6.2
The Kremlin Letter1970
The Last Voyage1960
The Girl from Rio1969
Tales of Manhattan1942
From the Earth to the Moon1958
Forever Amber1947
The Falcon Takes Over1942
Confessions of a Nazi Spy1939
The Rebel1961
Allegheny Uprising1939
The House of the Seven Gables1940
A Scandal in Paris1946

147 credits on file

Television 17

What's My Line?1950
Batman1966
Mission: Impossible1966
Daniel Boone1964
The Ed Sullivan Show1948
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.1964
The Bob Hope Show1950
Checkmate1960
The 20th Century Fox Hour1955
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show1956
The Rogues1964
Studio 571954
Screen Director's Playhouse1955
General Electric Theater1953
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars1951
The Jimmy Durante Show1954
The George Sanders Mystery Theater1957

Awards 2

1951Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

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About this person

George Henry Sanders was a British actor and singer whose career spanned over 40 years. His heavy, upper-class English accent and smooth bass voice often led him to be cast as sophisticated but villainous characters. He is remembered for his roles as the wicked Jack Favell in Rebecca (1940), Scott ffolliott in Foreign Correspondent, The Saran of Gaza in Samson and Delilah, theater critic Addison DeWitt in All About Eve, Sir Brian De Bois-Guilbert in Ivanhoe (1952), King Richard the Lionheart in King Richard and the Crusaders (1954), Mr. Freeze in a two-part episode of Batman (1966), and the voice of Shere Khan in Disney's The Jungle Book (1967). He also starred as Simon Templar, in five of the eight films in The Saint series (1939-1941), and as a suave Saint-like crimefighter in the first four of the sixteen The Falcon films (1941-1942).

Country
United Kingdom
Category
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1906 to 1972 · aged 65
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