George Sanders
Known For
Acting
Born
1906-07-03 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Died
1972-04-25
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 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.
Most Known For
Mission: Impossible
as Armand Anderssarian
Batman
as Mister Freeze
Batman
as Mister Freeze (uncredited)
What's My Line?
as Self - Panelist
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
Daniel Boone
as Col. Roger Barr
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
The Bob Hope Show
as Self
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as G. Emory Partridge
The Jungle Book
as Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
Studio 57
as Dr. Grissom
Screen Director's Playhouse
as Charles Ferris
The 20th Century Fox Hour
as Waldo Lydecker
Checkmate
as Richard Gilmore
The Rogues
as Leonard Carvel
Rebecca
as Jack Favell
All About Eve
as Addison DeWitt
Green Hell
as Forrester
Samson and Delilah
as The Saran of Gaza