George Sanders

Acting · Born 1906-07-03 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]

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…

Filmography

• Rebecca as Jack Favell
• A Shot in the Dark as Benjamin Ballon
• All About Eve as Addison DeWitt
• Things to Come as Celestial Body (uncredited)
• Journey to Italy as Alexander 'Alex' Joyce
• Ingrid Bergman Remembered as Self (archive footage)
• Lured as Robert Fleming
• The Ghost and Mrs. Muir as Miles Fairley
• Man Hunt as Major Quive-Smith
• Village of the Damned as Gordon Zellaby