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George Sanders

Acting Born Jul 3, 1906 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia] 24 credits

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.

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Known for

Batman

as Mister Freeze

Batman

as Mister Freeze (uncredited)

Mission: Impossible

as Armand Anderssarian

Daniel Boone

as Col. Roger Barr

What's My Line?

as Self

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self
Film

The Jungle Book

as Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
Film

Rebecca

as Jack Favell
Film

All About Eve

as Addison DeWitt
Film

Halloween: Resurrection

as John York

Full filmography

  • Batman (1966) as Mister Freeze
  • Batman (1966) as Mister Freeze (uncredited)
  • Mission: Impossible (1966) as Armand Anderssarian
  • Daniel Boone (1964) as Col. Roger Barr
  • What's My Line? (1950) as Self
  • The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) as Self
  • Checkmate (1960) as Richard Gilmore
  • The Bob Hope Show (1950) as Self
  • The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964) as G. Emory Partridge
  • The 20th Century Fox Hour (1955) as Waldo Lydecker
  • The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1956) as Self
  • The Rogues (1964) as Leonard Carvel
  • Studio 57 (1954) as Dr. Grissom
  • The Jungle Book (1967) as Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
  • Screen Director's Playhouse (1955) as Charles Ferris
  • Rebecca (1940) as Jack Favell
  • The Black Swan (1942) as Captain Billy Leech
  • All About Eve (1950) as Addison DeWitt
  • General Electric Theater (1953) as Dr. Grissom
  • General Electric Theater (1953) as William Clark
  • General Electric Theater (1953) as Major Watkins
  • Samson and Delilah (1949) as The Saran of Gaza
  • A Shot in the Dark (1964) as Benjamin Ballon
  • Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951) as John York