
George Sanders
Acting
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Acting Credits
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...
Known For
Filmography

Footsteps on the Ceiling
2013
as Addison DeWitt (archive footage)

Les messages de Fritz Lang
2003

Ingrid Bergman Remembered
1996
as Self (archive footage)

Death In Hollywood
1990
as Self (archive footage)

Disney's Greatest Villains
1977
as Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
1976
as Self (archive footage)

Psychomania
1973
as Shadwell

Endless Night
1972
as Andrew Lippincott

Doomwatch
1972
as The Admiral

The Kremlin Letter
1970
as Warlock

The Night of the Assassin
1970
as General Downes

The Girl from Rio
1969
as Sir Masius

The Body Stealers
1969
as Gen. Armstrong

The Best House in London
1969
as Sir Francis Leybourne

The Candy Man
1969
as Sidney Carter

Laura
1968
as Waldo Lydecker

One Step to Hell
1968
as Captain Walter Phillips

The Jungle Book
1967
as Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)

Warning Shot
1967
as Calvin York

Good Times
1967
as Mordicus

The Quiller Memorandum
1966
as Gibbs

Trunk to Cairo
1966
as Professor Schlieben

Batman
1966
as Mister Freeze

Mission: Impossible
1966
as Armand Anderssarian

Batman
1966
as Mister Freeze (uncredited)

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
1965
as The Banker

A Shot in the Dark
1964
as Benjamin Ballon

Dark Purpose
1964
as Raymond Fontaine

F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck
1964
as Principe Makowski

The Golden Head
1964
as Basil Palmer

Daniel Boone
1964
as Col. Roger Barr

The Rogues
1964
as Leonard Carvel

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
as G. Emory Partridge

Cairo
1963
as The Major

The Cracksman
1963
as Guv'nor

Ecco
1963
as Narrator

In Search of the Castaways
1962
as Thomas Ayerton

Operation Snatch
1962
as Maj. Hobson

Five Golden Hours
1961
as Mr. Bing

The Rebel
1961
as Sir Charles Broward

Rendezvous
1961
as Kellermann

Village of the Damned
1960
as Gordon Zellaby

The Last Voyage
1960
as Capitaine Robert Adams

A Touch of Larceny
1960
as Sir Charles Holland

Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
1960
as Henri Landru

Cone of Silence
1960
as Sir Arnold Hobbes

World by Night
1960

Checkmate
1960
as Richard Gilmore

Solomon and Sheba
1959
as Adonijah

That Kind of Woman
1959
as A.L.

From the Earth to the Moon
1958
as Stuyvesant Nicholl

The Whole Truth
1958
as Carliss

The Seventh Sin
1957
as Tim Waddington
The George Sanders Mystery Theater
1957
as Host

While the City Sleeps
1956
as Mark Loving

Death of a Scoundrel
1956
as Clementi Sabourin

That Certain Feeling
1956
as Larry Larkin

Never Say Goodbye
1956
as Victor
The Dream
1956
as Baron
The Bitter Waters
1956
as Charles Ferris

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
as Self

Moonfleet
1955
as Lord James Ashwood

The King's Thief
1955
as King Charles II

Jupiter's Darling
1955
as Fabius Maximus

The Scarlet Coat
1955
as Dr. Jonathan Odell

Laura
1955
as Waldo Lydecker

Screen Director's Playhouse
1955
as Charles Ferris

The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
as Waldo Lydecker

Journey to Italy
1954
as Alex Joyce

Witness to Murder
1954
as Albert Richter

King Richard and the Crusaders
1954
as King Richard I
The Jimmy Durante Show
1954
as Self

Studio 57
1954
as Dr. Grissom

Call Me Madam
1953
as Cosmo Constantine

A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family
1953
as Self

General Electric Theater
1953
as Dr. Grissom

General Electric Theater
1953
as William Clark

General Electric Theater
1953
as Major Watkins

Ivanhoe
1952
as Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert

Assignment: Paris
1952
as Nicholas Strang

I Can Get It for You Wholesale
1951
as J F Noble

The Light Touch
1951
as Felix Guignol

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
as John York

All About Eve
1950
as Addison DeWitt

Black Jack
1950
as Mike Alexander

The Bob Hope Show
1950
as Self

What's My Line?
1950
as Self

Samson and Delilah
1949
as The Saran of Gaza

The Fan
1949
as Lord Robert Darlington

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self

Lured
1947
as Robert Fleming

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
1947
as Miles Fairley

Forever Amber
1947
as King Charles II

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
1947
as Georges Duroy

The Strange Woman
1946
as John Evered

A Scandal in Paris
1946
as Eugéne François Vidocq

Hangover Square
1945
as Dr. Allan Middleton

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
1945
as Harry Melville Quincey

The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945
as Lord Henry Wotton

The Lodger
1944
as Inspector John Warwick

Summer Storm
1944
as Fedja Michailovitch Petroff

Action in Arabia
1944
as Michael Gordon

Quiet Please, Murder
1943
as Jim Fleg

This Land Is Mine
1943
as George Lambert

Appointment in Berlin
1943
as Keith Wilson

Paris After Dark
1943
as Dr. Andre Marbel

They Came to Blow Up America
1943
as Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter

Tales of Manhattan
1942
as Williams

The Black Swan
1942
as Captain Billy Leech

A Date with the Falcon
1942
as Gay Lawrence / The Falcon

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1942
as Sir Arthur Blake

The Falcon's Brother
1942
as Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence

The Falcon Takes Over
1942
as Gay Lawrence

The Moon and Sixpence
1942
as Charles Strickland

Her Cardboard Lover
1942
as Tony Barling

Man Hunt
1941
as Major Quive-Smith

Rage in Heaven
1941
as Ward Andrews

The Gay Falcon
1941
as Gay Laurence / The Falcon

The Saint In Palm Springs
1941
as Simon Templar

Sundown
1941
as Major A.L. Coombes

Rebecca
1940
as Jack Favell

Foreign Correspondent
1940
as Scott ffolliott

The House of the Seven Gables
1940
as Jaffrey Pyncheon

The Saint's Double Trouble
1940
as Simon Templar

The Son of Monte Cristo
1940
as Gurko Lanen

The Saint Takes Over
1940
as Simon Templar

Bitter Sweet
1940
as Baron Von Tranisch

Green Hell
1940
as Forrester

Allegheny Uprising
1939
as Captain Swanson

The Saint Strikes Back
1939
as Simon Templar

Mr. Moto's Last Warning
1939
as Eric Norvel

The Saint in London
1939
as Simon Templar

Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939
as Franz Schlager

Nurse Edith Cavell
1939
as Capt. Heinrichs

So This Is London
1939
as Dr. de Reseke

The Outsider
1939
as Anton Ragatzy

Four Men and a Prayer
1938
as Wyatt Leigh

International Settlement
1938
as Del Forbes

Lancer Spy
1937
as Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce

Slave Ship
1937
as Lefty

The Lady Escapes
1937
as Rene Blanchard

Love Is News
1937
as Count Andre de Guyon

Things to Come
1936
as Celestial Body (uncredited)

Lloyd's of London
1936
as Everett Stacy

Dishonour Bright
1936
as Lisle

The Man Who Could Work Miracles
1936
as Indifference - a God

Love, Life and Laughter
1934
as Singer in Public Bar (uncredited)