George Sanders
Actor
Biography
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.
Filmography
Rebecca
as Jack Favell 1940
All About Eve
as Addison DeWitt 1950
A Shot in the Dark
as Benjamin Ballon 1964
Village of the Damned
as Gordon Zellaby 1960
Foreign Correspondent
as Scott ffolliott 1940
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
as Miles Fairley 1947
Journey to Italy
as Alexander 'Alex' Joyce 1954
The Picture of Dorian Gray
as Lord Henry Wotton 1945
Samson and Delilah
as The Saran of Gaza 1949
Things to Come
as Celestial Body (uncredited) 1936
Ivanhoe
as Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert 1952
While the City Sleeps
as Mark Loving 1956
Man Hunt
as Major Quive-Smith 1941
Moonfleet
as Lord James Ashwood 1955
Solomon and Sheba
as Adonijah 1959
Lured
as Robert Fleming 1947