George Sanders
Date of birth: 1906-07-03
Place of birth: Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
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.
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Rebecca
1940-03-23
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the
A Shot in the Dark
1964-06-23
Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a strai
All About Eve
1950-11-09
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the re
Things to Come
1936-03-31
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational s
Journey to Italy
1954-09-07
Married for eight years with no children, Brits Katherine and Alex Joyce are driving to Italy, their
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
1996-04-06
Her name conjures up beauty, grace, talent and style. One of the greatest actresses of her time, she
Lured
1947-08-28
Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
1947-05-25
A young British widow rents a seaside cottage and soon becomes haunted by the ghost of its former ow
Man Hunt
1941-06-13
Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bav
Village of the Damned
1960-06-16
In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child
Rage in Heaven
1941-03-07
A jealous man frames his wife's suspected lover for murder.
Foreign Correspondent
1940-08-16
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the i
The Jungle Book
1967-10-18
The boy Mowgli makes his way to the man-village with Bagheera, the wise panther. Along the way he me
Ivanhoe
1952-07-31
Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the f
The Strange Woman
1946-10-25
In early 19th century New England, an unscrupulous woman uses her beauty and wits to seduce, deceive
Tales of Manhattan
1942-08-05
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by it
In Search of the Castaways
1962-12-01
Two teenagers, Mary (Hayley Mills) and Robert (Keith Hamshere) are lead by Professor Paganel (Mauric
Endless Night
1972-10-05
Shiftless dreamer Michael Rogers fantasizes about a lifestyle above his means and marries a wealthy,
The House of the Seven Gables
1940-04-12
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the
The Lodger
1944-01-19
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lo
Hangover Square
1945-02-07
When composer George Harvey Bone wakes with no memory of the previous night and a bloody knife in hi
Quiet Please, Murder
1943-03-19
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich
The Black Swan
1942-12-04
When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his f
Moonfleet
1955-06-24
Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dor
Samson and Delilah
1949-12-21
When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeanc
Solomon and Sheba
1959-10-27
Near death, King David has a vision that his poet son, Solomon, should succeed him, rather than hot-
While the City Sleeps
1956-04-19
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".
The Girl from Rio
1969-03-14
Sumuru, the beautiful leader of the all-female kingdom of Femina, plans to use her women to take ove
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
1945-08-17
George Sanders stars in this engrossing melodrama about a very domineering sister who holds a tight
Witness to Murder
1954-04-15
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom wind
A Date with the Falcon
1942-01-16
In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon,
Allegheny Uprising
1939-11-10
South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1942-01-29
Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Ben
The Last Voyage
1960-02-19
The S. S. Claridon is scheduled for her five last voyages after thirty-eight years of service. After
Death of a Scoundrel
1956-10-31
A Czech refugee uses women to advance his business interest.
The Falcon's Brother
1942-10-02
A gentlemanly detective known as The Falcon calls on his brother to help him stop the Nazis from ass
The Falcon Takes Over
1942-05-29
While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector
The Gay Falcon
1941-10-24
Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is
From the Earth to the Moon
1958-11-26
Set just after the American civil war, businessman and inventor Victor Barbicane invents a new sourc
This Land Is Mine
1943-05-07
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn bet
The Saint's Double Trouble
1940-01-26
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of
The Kremlin Letter
1970-02-01
After an unauthorized letter suggesting U.S. support for a Russian attack on China is sent to Moscow
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945-03-03
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his
Call Me Madam
1953-03-25
Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy.
The Quiller Memorandum
1966-11-10
After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi
The Saint Strikes Back
1939-03-08
Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman wh
Psychomania
1973-03-01
A gang of young people call themselves the Living Dead. They terrorize the population from their sma
Appointment in Berlin
1943-07-15
The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thr
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
1939-01-20
A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon a
The Son of Monte Cristo
1940-12-05
Rightful owner of the kingdom, the Duchess of Zona, is engaged in a power struggle with the evil Gen
King Richard and the Crusaders
1954-08-07
Based on Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman, this is the story of the romantic adventures of Christians
Summer Storm
1944-07-14
It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks he
Lloyd's of London
1936-11-25
Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close f
Five Golden Hours
1961-02-01
A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession unti
The Saint Takes Over
1940-06-07
The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the a
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
1951-04-05
A ruthless fashion designer steps on everyone in her way in order to reach the top of her profession
The Moon and Sixpence
1942-10-27
Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker wh
The Saint In Palm Springs
1941-01-24
George Sanders makes his final appearance as crook-turned-detective Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint
The Saint in London
1939-06-30
Suave soldier of fortune Simon Templer gets mixed up with a gang of counterfeiters who've murdered a
Sundown
1941-10-31
Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and en
Assignment: Paris
1952-09-04
Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race is sent by his boss behind the Iron Curtain
A Touch of Larceny
1960-02-04
After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, Briti
Action in Arabia
1944-02-18
Reporter Michael Gordon uncovers intrigue in Damascus, where the Allies and Nazis struggle for contr
Warning Shot
1967-01-18
Hounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman works his own case.
The King's Thief
1955-08-05
An ex-soldier turned highwayman uncovers a plot to take control of England from King Charles II.
Her Cardboard Lover
1942-07-16
A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo.
The Rebel
1961-03-07
Anthony Hancock gives up his office job to become an abstract artist. He has a lot of enthusiasm, bu
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
1965-05-26
A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of societ
Bitter Sweet
1940-11-08
A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle
Forever Amber
1947-10-10
Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to
Dark Purpose
1964-02-05
An American woman in Italy falls in love with a man, unaware that he has an insane wife hidden in th
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939-05-06
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
The Night of the Assassin
1970-08-06
During the civil war in Cyprus, an island nation split between the Greeks and the Turks, a British p
Lancer Spy
1937-10-08
An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a nationa
The Body Stealers
1969-03-21
In Britain, bodies of NATO paratroopers are being snatched during routine jumps by a mysterious red-
Doomwatch
1972-03-01
The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish ca
Jupiter's Darling
1955-02-18
Rome is on the verge of being conquered by Hannibal. While Rome's ruler, Fabius Maximus, plots a def
Four Men and a Prayer
1938-04-29
The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.
A Scandal in Paris
1946-07-19
A smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
1947-04-25
A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly lo
The Whole Truth
1958-07-29
On the French Riviera, movie producer Max Poulton is on location shooting a film starring his lover,
Laura
1968-01-24
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.
The Fan
1949-04-01
Lord Windermere appears to all – including his young wife Margaret – to be the perfect husband. The
Green Hell
1940-01-26
A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.
Cairo
1963-07-17
An assortment of international criminals plans to steal priceless Egyptian artifacts from a Cairo mu
That Certain Feeling
1956-06-04
When Larry Larkin's comic strip needs some freshening up, he calls in ghost-writer Francis X. Dignan
Slave Ship
1937-06-16
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced again
Never Say Goodbye
1956-03-10
In present-day U.S., Dr. Michael Parker, a prominent surgeon, unexpectedly runs into his German-born
The Seventh Sin
1957-06-28
In post-WWII Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol has an affair with Paul. Her physician husband Walte
Trunk to Cairo
1966-06-02
Audie plays a James Bond-type action hero assigned to destroy a Neo-Nazy weapons factory headed by n
The Scarlet Coat
1955-07-29
An American officer goes undercover to unmask a Revolutionary War traitor.
The Light Touch
1951-12-06
An art thief tries to double cross his gangster boss.
One Step to Hell
1968-04-14
A British colonial policeman in Africa, circa 1900, pursues a band of escaped killers across territo
That Kind of Woman
1959-09-11
A young G.I. falls in love with a kept woman on a train to New York.
Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
1960-04-02
A murderer enriches his finances by marrying and then killing off a series of wealthy women.
International Settlement
1938-02-04
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers
Paris After Dark
1943-10-15
Andre Marbel is the upper-class doctor who is able to continue his practice above suspicion even tho
Cone of Silence
1960-05-10
A seasoned pilot is condemned for an error which causes a crash. The pilot later dies in a crash wit
Nurse Edith Cavell
1939-08-31
British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son o
The Best House in London
1969-06-01
In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of street prostitutio
The Cracksman
1963-01-01
Ernest Wright's peerless prowess as a locksmith comes to the attention of a tough big-time crook, wh
They Came to Blow Up America
1943-05-07
Based on a true incident that occurred in 1942 when nine Nazi saboteurs were put ashore on the coast
F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck
1964-06-29
An Interpol agent is tasked with investigating the deaths of several other agents.
Dishonour Bright
1936-09-21
A man is cited as the co-respondent in a divorce case, but is cheerfully unashamed when he appears i
Good Times
1967-04-11
Given the opportunity to headline their own feature film by studio executive Mr. Mordicus, Sonny and
Black Jack
1950-11-20
A man who lost everything in the war now smuggles contraband into and out of Spain, but the law's cl
Love, Life and Laughter
1934-03-01
Gracie plays a London publican's daughter named after Nell Gwynn, who much like the original, become
The Lady Escapes
1937-07-22
A young husband schemes to regain his wife, who earlier had left him and now is involved with a Euro
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
1936-07-23
An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that h
Ecco
1963-11-15
A documentary highlighting some of the oddest, strangest and more grotesque examples of human behavi
So This Is London
1939-03-01
American (Churchill) in London dislikes England until his daughter (Lehmann) falls for the son (Gran
The Golden Head
1964-08-22
Stevenson, the famous English criminal expert visits Hungary with his family. While he is chairing a
The Outsider
1939-01-30
A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love with
Love Is News
1937-02-26
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns th
Operation Snatch
1962-03-01
Legend has it that if the famous Barbary Apes leave the Rock of Gibraltar, it's a sign that the Brit
The Candy Man
1969-02-01
An American actress travels to Mexico to make a movie and brings her daughter with her. Upon arrivin
Rendezvous
1961-11-10
A soap-opera/murder mystery that builds to a deliriously melodramatic finale.
A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family
1953-09-24
Commissioned by a Swedish newspaper, this news-reel like short on the life of the famous Swedish act
Laura
1955-10-19
A detective is assigned to a case of murder. During the investigation he finds himself taking a more
Footsteps on the Ceiling
2013-01-01
A meditation on ambition and careerism utilizing altered footage from All About Eve, with a soupçon
The Dream
1956-05-16
In 1887 France, a mother is starting to become worried about her young son. He has a recurring dream
The Bitter Waters
1956-08-01
At the beginning of the 20th century, a rich American boy touring Europe with his uncle stops at a t
Disney's Greatest Villains
1977-05-15
The Slave in the Magic Mirror is the host of this show, designed to explain that all heroes need vil
World by Night
1960-04-05
A tour in colour and 'scope of cabarets and night-spots around the world.