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
• Journey to Italy as Alexander 'Alex' Joyce
• The Ghost and Mrs. Muir as Miles Fairley
• Village of the Damned as Gordon Zellaby
• Foreign Correspondent as Scott ffolliott
• The Jungle Book as Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray as Lord Henry Wotton
• Things to Come as Celestial Body (uncredited)

TV

• Batman as Mister Freeze
• General Electric Theater as Dr. Grissom
• Mission: Impossible as Armand Anderssarian
• Daniel Boone as Col. Roger Barr
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as John York
• The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self
• The Rogues as Leonard Carvel
• General Electric Theater as William Clark
• General Electric Theater as Major Watkins
• The Bob Hope Show as Self