George Sanders  

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George Henry Sanders (3 July 1906 – 25 April 1972) 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 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-part episode of Batman (1966), and the voice of Shere Khan in Disney's The Jungle Book (1967). Fans of detective stories know Sanders as Simon Templar, The Saint, (1939–41),

Complete filmography

• Love, Life and Laughter (1934) as Singer in Public Bar (uncredited)
• Things to Come (1936) as Pilot (uncredited)
• Strange Cargo (1936) as Roddy Burch
• Find the Lady (1936) as Curly Randall
• The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936) as Indifference
• Dishonour Bright (1936) as Lisle
• Lloyd's of London (1936) as Lord Everett Stacy
• Love Is News (1937) as Count Andre de Guyon
• Slave Ship (1937) as Lefty
• The Lady Escapes (1937) as Rene Blanchard
• Lancer Spy (1937) as Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
• International Settlement (1938) as Del Forbes
• Four Men and a Prayer (1938) as Wyatt Leigh
• Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1939) as Eric Norvel
• The Outsider (1939) as Anton Ragatzy
• So This Is London (1939) as Dr. de Reseke
• The Saint Strikes Back (1939) as Simon Templar / The Saint
• Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) as Schlager
• The Saint in London (1939) as Simon Templar / The Saint
• Nurse Edith Cavell (1939) as Capt. Heinrichs
• Allegheny Uprising (1939) as Capt. Swanson
• The Saint's Double Trouble (1940) as Simon Templar aka The Saint / 'Boss' Duke Bates
• Green Hell (1940) as Forrester
• The House of the Seven Gables (1940) as Jaffrey Pyncheon
• Rebecca (1940) as Jack Favell
• The Saint Takes Over (1940) as Simon Templar / The Saint
• Foreign Correspondent (1940) as Scott ffolliott
• Bitter Sweet (1940) as Baron von Tranisch
• The Son of Monte Cristo (1940) as Gen. Gurko Lanen
• The Saint in Palm Springs (1941) as Simon Templar / The Saint
• Rage in Heaven (1941) as Ward Andrews
• Man Hunt (1941) as Major Quive-Smith
• Sundown (1941) as Coombes
• The Gay Falcon (1941) as Gay Laurence / The Falcon
• A Date with the Falcon (1942) as Gay Laurence / The Falcon
• Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942) as Sir Arthur Blake
• The Falcon Takes Over (1942) as Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
• Her Cardboard Lover (1942) as Tony Barling
• Tales of Manhattan (1942) as Williams
• The Falcon's Brother (1942) as Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
• The Moon and Sixpence (1942) as Charles Strickland
• The Black Swan (1942) as Capt. Billy Leech
• Quiet Please, Murder (1942) as Jim Fleg
• This Land Is Mine (1943) as George Lambert
• They Came to Blow Up America (1943) as Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
• Appointment in Berlin (1943) as Wing Cmdr. Keith Wilson
• Paris After Dark (1943) as Dr. Andre Marbel
• The Lodger (1944) as Inspector John Warwick
• Action in Arabia (1944) as Michael Gordon
• Summer Storm (1944) as Fedor Mikhailovich Petroff
• Hangover Square (1945) as Dr. Allan Middleton
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) as Lord Henry Wotton
• The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945) as Harry Melville Quincey
• A Scandal in Paris (1946) as Eugène François Vidocq
• The Strange Woman (1946) as John Evered
• The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947) as Georges Duroy
• The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) as Miles Fairley
• Lured (1947) as Robert Fleming
• Forever Amber (1947) as King Charles II
• The Fan (1949) as Lord Robert Darlington
• Samson and Delilah (1949) as The Saran of Gaza
• All About Eve (1950) as Addison DeWitt
• Black Jack (1950) as Mike Alexander
• I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1951) as J.F. Noble
• The Light Touch (1951) as Felix Guignol
• Ivanhoe (1952) as De Bois-Guilbert
• Assignment – Paris! (1952) as Nicholas Strang
• Call Me Madam (1953) as General Cosmo Constantine
• Witness to Murder (1954) as Albert Richter
• King Richard and the Crusaders (1954) as King Richard I
• Journey to Italy (Viaggio in Italia) (1954) as Alexander 'Alex' Joyce
• Jupiter's Darling (1955) as Fabius Maximus
• Moonfleet (1955) as Lord Ashwood
• The Scarlet Coat (1955) as Dr. Jonathan Odell
• The King's Thief (1955) as Charles II
• Never Say Goodbye (1956) as Victor
• While the City Sleeps (1956) as Mark Loving
• That Certain Feeling (1956) as Larry Larkin
• Death of a Scoundrel (1956) as Clementi Sabourin
• The Seventh Sin (1957) as Tim Waddington
• Rock-A-Bye Baby (1958) as Danny Poole (1959) (scenes cut)
• The Whole Truth (1958) as Carliss
• From the Earth to the Moon (1958) as Stuyvesant Nicholl
• That Kind of Woman (1959) as A.L.
• Solomon and Sheba (1959) as Adonijah
• A Touch of Larceny (1960) as Sir Charles Holland
• The Last Voyage (1960) as Captain Robert Adams
• Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons (1960) as Henri Landru
• Cone of Silence (1960) as Sir Arnold Hobbes
• Village of the Damned (1960) as Gordon Zellaby
• The Rebel (aka, Call Me Genius, 1961) as Sir Charles Brewer
• Five Golden Hours (1961) as Mr. Bing
• Le Rendez-vous (1961) as J.K. / Kellermann
• Operation Snatch (1962) as Maj. Hobson
• In Search of the Castaways (1962) as Thomas Ayerton
• Cairo (1963) as The Major
• The Cracksman (1963) as Guv'nor
• Dark Purpose (1964) as Raymond Fontaine
• The Golden Head (1964) as Basil Palmer
• A Shot in the Dark (1964) as Benjamin Ballon
• Last Plane to Baalbeck (1965) as Prince Makowski
• The Golden Head (1965) as Basil Palmer
• The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965) as The Banker
• Trunk to Cairo (1965) as Professor Schlieben
• The Quiller Memorandum (1966) as Gibbs
• Witchdoctor in Tails as the narrator (1966)
• Warning Shot (1967) as Calvin York
• Good Times (1967) as Mordicus / Knife McBlade / White hunter / Zarubian
• The Jungle Book (1967) as Shere Khan, the Tiger (voice)
• Laura (1968 TV movie) as Waldo Lydecker
• King of Africa (1968) as Captain Walter Phillips
• The Candy Man (1969) as Sidney Carter
• The Girl from Rio (1969) as Masius
• The Body Stealers (1969) as General Armstrong
• The Best House in London (1969) as Sir Francis Leybourne
• The Kremlin Letter (1970) as Warlock
• Rendezvous with Dishonour (1970) as General Downes
• Doomwatch (1972) as The Admiral – Sir Geoffrey
• Endless Night (1972) as Andrew Lippincott
• Psychomania (1973) as Shadwell (final film role)