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

• 2013Footsteps on the Ceiling — Addison DeWitt (archive footage)
• 2003Les messages de Fritz Lang
• 1977Disney's Greatest Villains — Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)
• 1976Bob Hope's World of Comedy — (archive footage)
• 1973Psychomania — Shadwell
• 1972Doomwatch — The Admiral
• 1972Endless Night — Andrew Lippincott
• 1970The Kremlin Letter — Warlock
• 1970The Night of the Assassin — General Downes
• 1969The Best House in London — Sir Francis Leybourne
• 1969The Body Stealers — Gen. Armstrong
• 1969The Candy Man — Sidney Carter
• 1969The Girl from Rio — Sir Masius
• 1968Laura — Waldo Lydecker
• 1968One Step to Hell — Captain Walter Phillips
• 1967Good Times — Mordicus
• 1967The Jungle Book — Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
• 1967Warning Shot — Calvin York
• Batman — Mister Freeze, Mister Freeze (uncredited)
• Mission: Impossible — Armand Anderssarian
• 1966The Quiller Memorandum — Gibbs
• 1966Trunk to Cairo — Professor Schlieben
• 1965The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders — The Banker
• 1964A Shot in the Dark — Benjamin Ballon
• Daniel Boone — Col. Roger Barr
• 1964Dark Purpose — Raymond Fontaine
• 1964F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck — Principe Makowski
• 1964The Golden Head — Basil Palmer
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. — G. Emory Partridge
• The Rogues — Leonard Carvel
• 1963Cairo — The Major
• 1963Ecco — Narrator
• 1963The Cracksman — Guv'nor
• 1962In Search of the Castaways — Thomas Ayerton
• 1962Operation Snatch — Maj. Hobson
• 1961Five Golden Hours — Mr. Bing
• 1961Rendezvous — Kellermann
• 1961The Rebel — Sir Charles Broward
• 1960A Touch of Larceny — Sir Charles Holland
• 1960Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons — Henri Landru
• Checkmate — Richard Gilmore
• 1960Cone of Silence — Sir Arnold Hobbes
• 1960The Last Voyage — Capitaine Robert Adams
• 1960Village of the Damned — Gordon Zellaby
• 1960World by Night
• 1959Solomon and Sheba — Adonijah
• 1959That Kind of Woman — A.L.
• 1958From the Earth to the Moon — Stuyvesant Nicholl
• 1958The Whole Truth — Carliss
• The George Sanders Mystery Theater — Host
• 1957The Seventh Sin — Tim Waddington
• 1956Death of a Scoundrel — Clementi Sabourin
• 1956Never Say Goodbye — Victor
• 1956That Certain Feeling — Larry Larkin
• 1956The Bitter Waters — Charles Ferris
• 1956The Dream — Baron
• 1956While the City Sleeps — Mark Loving
• 1955Jupiter's Darling — Fabius Maximus
• 1955Laura — Waldo Lydecker
• 1955Moonfleet — Lord James Ashwood
• Screen Director's Playhouse — Charles Ferris
• The 20th Century Fox Hour — Waldo Lydecker
• 1955The King's Thief — King Charles II
• 1955The Scarlet Coat — Dr. Jonathan Odell
• 1954Journey to Italy — Alex Joyce
• 1954King Richard and the Crusaders — King Richard I
• Studio 57 — Dr. Grissom
• 1954The Unholy Four — Novel
• 1954Witness to Murder — Albert Richter
• 1953Call Me Madam — Cosmo Constantine
• General Electric Theater — Dr. Grissom, William Clark, Major Watkins
• 1952Assignment: Paris — Nicholas Strang
• 1952Ivanhoe — Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert
• 1951I Can Get It for You Wholesale — J F Noble
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars — John York
• 1951The Light Touch — Felix Guignol
• 1950All About Eve — Addison DeWitt
• 1950Black Jack — Mike Alexander
• 1949Samson and Delilah — The Saran of Gaza
• 1949The Fan — Lord Robert Darlington
• 1947Forever Amber — King Charles II
• 1947Lured — Robert Fleming
• 1947The Ghost and Mrs. Muir — Miles Fairley
• 1947The Private Affairs of Bel Ami — Georges Duroy
• 1946A Scandal in Paris — Eugéne François Vidocq
• 1946The Strange Woman — John Evered
• 1945Hangover Square — Dr. Allan Middleton
• 1945The Picture of Dorian Gray — Lord Henry Wotton
• 1945The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry — Harry Melville Quincey
• 1944Action in Arabia — Michael Gordon
• 1944Summer Storm — Fedja Michailovitch Petroff
• 1944The Lodger — Inspector John Warwick
• 1943Appointment in Berlin — Keith Wilson
• 1943Paris After Dark — Dr. Andre Marbel
• 1943Quiet Please, Murder — Jim Fleg
• 1943They Came to Blow Up America — Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
• 1943This Land Is Mine — George Lambert
• 1942A Date with the Falcon — Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
• 1942Her Cardboard Lover — Tony Barling
• 1942Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake — Sir Arthur Blake
• 1942Tales of Manhattan — Williams
• 1942The Black Swan — Captain Billy Leech
• 1942The Falcon Takes Over — Gay Lawrence
• 1942The Falcon's Brother — Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence
• 1942The Moon and Sixpence — Charles Strickland
• 1941Man Hunt — Major Quive-Smith
• 1941Rage in Heaven — Ward Andrews
• 1941Sundown — Major A.L. Coombes
• 1941The Gay Falcon — Gay Laurence / The Falcon
• 1941The Saint In Palm Springs — Simon Templar
• 1940Bitter Sweet — Baron Von Tranisch
• 1940Foreign Correspondent — Scott ffolliott
• 1940Green Hell — Forrester
• 1940Rebecca — Jack Favell
• 1940The House of the Seven Gables — Jaffrey Pyncheon
• 1940The Saint Takes Over — Simon Templar
• 1940The Saint's Double Trouble — Simon Templar
• 1940The Son of Monte Cristo — Gurko Lanen
• 1939Allegheny Uprising — Captain Swanson
• 1939Confessions of a Nazi Spy — Franz Schlager
• 1939Mr. Moto's Last Warning — Eric Norvel
• 1939Nurse Edith Cavell — Capt. Heinrichs
• 1939So This Is London — Dr. de Reseke
• 1939The Outsider — Anton Ragatzy
• 1939The Saint Strikes Back — Simon Templar
• 1939The Saint in London — Simon Templar
• 1938Four Men and a Prayer — Wyatt Leigh
• 1938International Settlement — Del Forbes
• 1937Lancer Spy — Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
• 1937Love Is News — Count Andre de Guyon
• 1937Slave Ship — Lefty
• 1937The Lady Escapes — Rene Blanchard
• 1936Dishonour Bright — Lisle
• 1936Lloyd's of London — Everett Stacy
• 1936The Man Who Could Work Miracles — Indifference - a God
• 1936Things to Come — Celestial Body (uncredited)
• 1934Love, Life and Laughter — Singer in Public Bar (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (8)

• 1996Ingrid Bergman Remembered — Self (archive footage)
• 1990Death In Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
• The Dinah Shore Chevy Show — Self
• The Jimmy Durante Show — Self
• 1953A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family — Self
• The Bob Hope Show — Self
• What's My Line? — Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self