Biography
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, theatre 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).
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Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1951
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1951 · nominated
Filmography50+ titles
All About Eve
Mission: Impossible
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
The Jungle Book
Batman
A Shot in the Dark
Village of the Damned
Journey to Italy
This Land Is Mine
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Daniel Boone
What's My Line?
The House of the Seven Gables
Foreign Correspondent
While the City Sleeps
Man Hunt
Death In Hollywood
Cone of Silence
Ivanhoe
The Ed Sullivan Show
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
The Scarlet Coat
Samson and Delilah
Nurse Edith Cavell
In Search of the Castaways
The Lodger
The Black Swan
Things to Come
Warning Shot
Solomon and Sheba
King Richard and the Crusaders
A Scandal in Paris
Rage in Heaven
Witness to Murder
Lured
The Falcon Takes Over
The Last Voyage
The King's Thief
The Strange Woman
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
The Son of Monte Cristo
Endless Night
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
The 20th Century Fox Hour
The Fan
Action in Arabia
Bitter Sweet
The Kremlin Letter
Death of a Scoundrel