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George Sanders
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George Sanders

1906 – 1972 · Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia] · Active 1934–2013

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 Br...

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Trunk to Cairo

Trunk to Cairo

1966 ★ 5.0
as Professor Schlieben

American Mike Merrick, posing as German Ludwig Baum, infiltrates the atomic laboratory of Professor Schlieben, who is attempting to create atomic missiles for the Egyptian army. Merrick falls in love with Schlieben's daughter Helga, who helps him defeat her father's efforts.  

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Filmography

148 credits
2010s 1 credit
2013
Footsteps on the Ceiling as Addison DeWitt (archive footage)
Movie
1990s 2 credits
1996
Ingrid Bergman Remembered as Self (archive footage)
Movie ★ 6.7
1990
Movie ★ 6.8
1970s 7 credits
1977
Disney's Greatest Villains as Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)
Movie
1976
Bob Hope's World of Comedy as Self (archive footage)
Movie
1973
Psychomania as Shadwell
Movie ★ 5.5
1972
Endless Night as Andrew Lippincott
Movie ★ 6.1
1972
Doomwatch as The Admiral
Movie ★ 6.1
1970
Movie ★ 6.0
1970
The Night of the Assassin as General Downes
Movie ★ 7.0
1960s 37 credits
1969
Movie ★ 4.8
1969
The Body Stealers as Gen. Armstrong
Movie ★ 4.8
1969
The Best House in London as Sir Francis Leybourne
Movie ★ 4.0
1969
The Candy Man as Sidney Carter
Movie ★ 5.0
1968
Laura as Waldo Lydecker
Movie ★ 5.7
1968
One Step to Hell as Captain Walter Phillips
Movie ★ 7.5
1967
The Jungle Book as Shere Khan the Tiger (voice)
Movie ★ 7.3
1967
Warning Shot as Calvin York
Movie ★ 6.4
1967
Good Times as Mordicus
Movie ★ 5.2
1966
Movie ★ 5.9
1966
Trunk to Cairo as Professor Schlieben
Movie ★ 6.3
1966
Batman as Mister Freeze
TV ★ 7.3
1966
Mission: Impossible as Armand Anderssarian
TV ★ 7.6
1966
Batman as Mister Freeze (uncredited)
TV ★ 7.3
1965
Movie ★ 5.7
1964
A Shot in the Dark as Benjamin Ballon
Movie ★ 7.2
1964
Dark Purpose as Raymond Fontaine
Movie ★ 6.3
1964
F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck as Principe Makowski
Movie ★ 6.0
1964
The Golden Head as Basil Palmer
Movie ★ 6.0
1964
Daniel Boone as Col. Roger Barr
TV ★ 7.0
1964
The Rogues as Leonard Carvel
TV ★ 8.0
1964
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as G. Emory Partridge
TV ★ 7.1
1963
Cairo as The Major
Movie ★ 5.1
1963
The Cracksman as Guv'nor
Movie ★ 6.6
1963
Ecco as Narrator
Movie ★ 4.8
1962
Movie ★ 6.5
1962
Operation Snatch as Maj. Hobson
Movie ★ 7.0
1961
Movie ★ 7.3
1961
The Rebel as Sir Charles Broward
Movie ★ 7.8
1961
Rendezvous as Kellermann
Movie ★ 6.3
1960
Village of the Damned as Gordon Zellaby
Movie ★ 7.2
1960
The Last Voyage as Capitaine Robert Adams
Movie ★ 6.2
1960
A Touch of Larceny as Sir Charles Holland
Movie ★ 6.0
1960
Movie ★ 6.3
1960
Cone of Silence as Sir Arnold Hobbes
Movie ★ 6.8
1960
Movie ★ 7.0
1960
Checkmate as Richard Gilmore
TV ★ 4.8
1950s 40 credits
1959
Movie ★ 6.4
1959
Movie ★ 6.2
1958
From the Earth to the Moon as Stuyvesant Nicholl
Movie ★ 5.3
1958
Movie ★ 5.8
1957
The Seventh Sin as Tim Waddington
Movie ★ 5.4
1957
TV ★ 8.0
1956
Movie ★ 6.9
1956
Death of a Scoundrel as Clementi Sabourin
Movie ★ 5.9
1956
That Certain Feeling as Larry Larkin
Movie ★ 5.6
1956
Movie ★ 6.4
1956
The Dream as Baron
Movie
1956
The Bitter Waters as Charles Ferris
Movie
1956
TV ★ 6.4
1955
Moonfleet as Lord James Ashwood
Movie ★ 6.5
1955
The King's Thief as King Charles II
Movie ★ 6.3
1955
Jupiter's Darling as Fabius Maximus
Movie ★ 4.9
1955
The Scarlet Coat as Dr. Jonathan Odell
Movie ★ 6.7
1955
Laura as Waldo Lydecker
Movie ★ 9.7
1955
TV ★ 7.0
1955
The 20th Century Fox Hour as Waldo Lydecker
TV ★ 6.0
1954
Journey to Italy as Alex Joyce
Movie ★ 7.3
1954
Witness to Murder as Albert Richter
Movie ★ 6.3
1954
Movie ★ 6.4
1954
TV ★ 10.0
1954
Studio 57 as Dr. Grissom
TV ★ 8.0
1953
Call Me Madam as Cosmo Constantine
Movie ★ 6.2
1953
TV ★ 6.8
1953
TV ★ 6.8
1953
TV ★ 6.8
1952
Ivanhoe as Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert
Movie ★ 6.8
1952
Assignment: Paris as Nicholas Strang
Movie ★ 5.9
1951
Movie ★ 6.0
1951
The Light Touch as Felix Guignol
Movie ★ 6.3
1951
TV ★ 7.2
1950
All About Eve as Addison DeWitt
Movie ★ 8.1
1950
Black Jack as Mike Alexander
Movie ★ 6.0
1950
TV ★ 7.0
1950
What's My Line? as Self - Panelist
TV ★ 7.0
1950
What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
TV ★ 7.0
1940s 41 credits
1949
Samson and Delilah as The Saran of Gaza
Movie ★ 6.6
1949
The Fan as Lord Robert Darlington
Movie ★ 6.0
1948
TV ★ 6.8
1947
Lured as Robert Fleming
Movie ★ 6.3
1947
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir as Miles Fairley
Movie ★ 7.5
1947
Forever Amber as King Charles II
Movie ★ 6.0
1947
Movie ★ 6.2
1946
The Strange Woman as John Evered
Movie ★ 6.2
1946
A Scandal in Paris as Eugéne François Vidocq
Movie ★ 6.4
1945
Hangover Square as Dr. Allan Middleton
Movie ★ 7.0
1945
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry as Harry Melville Quincey
Movie ★ 6.2
1945
The Picture of Dorian Gray as Lord Henry Wotton
Movie ★ 7.1
1944
The Lodger as Inspector John Warwick
Movie ★ 6.5
1944
Summer Storm as Fedja Michailovitch Petroff
Movie ★ 5.7
1944
Action in Arabia as Michael Gordon
Movie ★ 6.0
1943
Movie ★ 7.0
1943
This Land Is Mine as George Lambert
Movie ★ 7.2
1943
Appointment in Berlin as Keith Wilson
Movie ★ 7.1
1943
Paris After Dark as Dr. Andre Marbel
Movie ★ 6.1
1943
They Came to Blow Up America as Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
Movie ★ 6.8
1942
Movie ★ 6.5
1942
The Black Swan as Captain Billy Leech
Movie ★ 6.5
1942
A Date with the Falcon as Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
Movie ★ 6.5
1942
Movie ★ 7.2
1942
The Falcon's Brother as Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence
Movie ★ 6.4
1942
The Falcon Takes Over as Gay Lawrence
Movie ★ 6.3
1942
The Moon and Sixpence as Charles Strickland
Movie ★ 6.3
1942
Her Cardboard Lover as Tony Barling
Movie ★ 4.9
1941
Man Hunt as Major Quive-Smith
Movie ★ 6.9
1941
Rage in Heaven as Ward Andrews
Movie ★ 6.4
1941
The Gay Falcon as Gay Laurence / The Falcon
Movie ★ 6.3
1941
Movie ★ 6.0
1941
Sundown as Major A.L. Coombes
Movie ★ 5.6
1940
Rebecca as Jack Favell
Movie ★ 7.9
1940
Foreign Correspondent as Scott ffolliott
Movie ★ 7.0
1940
Movie ★ 7.0
1940
Movie ★ 6.0
1940
Movie ★ 6.2
1940
The Saint Takes Over as Simon Templar
Movie ★ 6.7
1940
Bitter Sweet as Baron Von Tranisch
Movie ★ 6.0
1940
Green Hell as Forrester
Movie ★ 4.5
1930s 19 credits
1939
Allegheny Uprising as Captain Swanson
Movie ★ 5.8
1939
The Saint Strikes Back as Simon Templar
Movie ★ 5.7
1939
Movie ★ 5.7
1939
The Saint in London as Simon Templar
Movie ★ 5.8
1939
Confessions of a Nazi Spy as Franz Schlager
Movie ★ 6.1
1939
Nurse Edith Cavell as Capt. Heinrichs
Movie ★ 6.6
1939
So This Is London as Dr. de Reseke
Movie ★ 9.0
1939
The Outsider as Anton Ragatzy
Movie ★ 6.0
1938
Movie ★ 6.5
1938
Movie ★ 6.3
1937
Lancer Spy as Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
Movie ★ 6.0
1937
Slave Ship as Lefty
Movie ★ 5.1
1937
The Lady Escapes as Rene Blanchard
Movie ★ 7.0
1937
Love Is News as Count Andre de Guyon
Movie ★ 6.3
1936
Things to Come as Celestial Body (uncredited)
Movie ★ 6.5
1936
Lloyd's of London as Everett Stacy
Movie ★ 7.3
1936
Movie ★ 6.5
1936
The Man Who Could Work Miracles as Indifference - a God
Movie ★ 5.9
1934
Love, Life and Laughter as Singer in Public Bar (uncredited)
Movie ★ 7.0
Crew Credits
1950s 1 credit
1954
Movie ★ 5.5