About
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...
Known for
Mission: ImpossibleSeries • 1966
BatmanSeries • 1966
Daniel BooneSeries • 1964
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.Series • 1964
The Jungle BookMovie • 1967
The 20th Century Fox HourSeries • 1955
Studio 57Series • 1954
CheckmateSeries • 1960
RebeccaMovie • 1940
The RoguesSeries • 1964
Screen Director's PlayhouseSeries • 1955
All About EveMovie • 1950
Samson and DelilahMovie • 1949
A Shot in the DarkMovie • 1964
The Picture of Dorian GrayMovie • 1945
The Black SwanMovie • 1942
Foreign CorrespondentMovie • 1940
Village of the DamnedMovie • 1960
The LodgerMovie • 1944
While the City SleepsMovie • 1956
IvanhoeMovie • 1952
The Girl from RioMovie • 1969
Solomon and ShebaMovie • 1959
Things to ComeMovie • 1936