George Sanders

George Henry Sanders (3 July 1906 – 25 April

1972) was a British actor. His career as an actor
George Sanders
spanned over 40 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 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 Portrait of Sanders by Allan Warren, 1972
made in the 1930s and 1940s.[1]
Born 3 July 1906
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died 25 April 1972 (aged 65)
Contents Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain
Early life Alma mater Manchester Technical College
Career Occupation Actor
Early British work Years active 1929–1972
Hollywood and 20th Century Fox
Spouse(s) Susan Larson
The Saint, The Falcon, and character roles
(m. 1940; div. 1949)
The Falcon
Zsa Zsa Gabor
A-picture leading man (m. 1949; div. 1954)
RKO Benita Hume
All About Eve and beyond (m. 1959; died 1967)
Final films Magda Gabor
Novels (m. 1970; div. 1971)
Singing Partner(s) Lorraine Chanel (1968–72; his
Personal life death)

Final years and death Family Tom Conway (brother)

Honours and references in popular culture

Complete filmography
Television
Broadway
 Notes
References
Bibliography
Further reading
External links

Early life
Sanders was born on 3 July 1906 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, at number 6 Petrovski Ostrov. His
parents were Henry Peter Ernest Sanders (1868–1960),[2] and Margarethe Jenny Bertha Sanders (née
Kolbe; 1883–1967), who was born in Saint Petersburg, of mostly German, but also Estonian and Scottish,
ancestry.[3] A biography published in 1990 claimed that Sanders' father was the illegitimate son of a prince
of the House of Oldenburg and a Russian noblewoman of the Tsar’s court, married to a sister of the
Tsar.[4][a] Actor Tom Conway (1904–1967) was George Sanders' elder brother. Their younger sister,
Margaret Sanders, was born in 1912.

In 1917, at the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, Sanders and his family moved to Great Britain.[5][6]
Like his brother, he attended Bedales School and Brighton College, a boys' independent school in
Brighton, then went on to Manchester Technical College, after which he worked in textile research.[7][8]

Sanders travelled to South America, where he managed a tobacco plantation. The Depression sent him
back to Britain. He worked at an advertising agency, where the company secretary, aspiring actress Greer
Garson, suggested that he take up a career in acting.[9]

Career

Early British work

Sanders learned how to sing and got a role on stage in

Ballyhoo, which only had a short run, but helped establish
him as an actor.[8]

He began to work regularly on the British stage, appearing

several times with Edna Best. He co-starred with Dennis King
in The Command Performance.[10] He appeared in a British
In the trailer for Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign film, Love, Life and Laughter (1934).
Correspondent (1940)
Sanders travelled to New York to appear on Broadway in a
production of Noël Coward's Conversation Piece (1934),
directed by Coward, which only ran for 55 performances.[8]

He returned to Britain, where he had small parts in films such as Things to Come (1936), Strange Cargo
(1936), Find the Lady (1936), The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936), and Dishonour Bright (1936).

Hollywood and 20th Century Fox

Some of these British films were distributed by 20th Century Fox, which was looking for an actor to play a
villain in its Hollywood-shot film Lloyd's of London (1936). Sanders was duly cast as Lord Everett Stacy,
opposite Tyrone Power, in one of his first leads, as the hero; Sanders' smooth, upper-class English accent,
his sleek manner, and his suave, superior, and somewhat threatening air made him in demand for American
films for years to come.[11]

Lloyds of London was a big hit, and in November 1936, Fox placed Sanders under a seven-year
contract.[12]

Fox cast him opposite Power again in Love Is News (1937), then he supported Wallace Beery in Slave Ship
(1937) and Gloria Stuart in The Lady Escapes (1937).

Public response to Sanders had been strong, so Fox gave him his first heroic lead, in the B picture Lancer
Spy (1937) with Dolores del Río. Del Río and he were promptly reteamed in International Settlement
(1938).

Sanders was second-billed (to Richard Greene) in John Ford's Four Men and a Prayer (1938), and Fox
had him play a villain in Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1939).

Sanders returned to Britain to make The Outsider (1939) for Associated British Picture Corporation and So
This Is London (1939) for Fox.

The Saint, The Falcon, and character roles

Sanders returned to Hollywood, where RKO wanted him to play the hero in a series of B-movies, The
Saint. The Saint in New York (1938) had already been made starring Louis Hayward in the title role, but
when he decided not to return to the role, Sanders took over for The Saint Strikes Back (1939).[13][14]
Sanders was now being cast as international villains: in Mr. Moto's Last Warning, Confessions of a Nazi
Spy, Nurse Edith Cavell, and Allegheny Uprising (all 1939).

RKO sent Sanders to Britain, where its British unit (including director John Paddy Carstairs) filmed The
Saint in London (1939). He played a double role in The Saint's Double Trouble (1940), then went to
Universal for Green Hell (1940) and The House of the Seven Gables (1940).

Alfred Hitchcock cast him in a supporting role for Rebecca (1940), a huge success. After The Saint Takes
Over (1940), Hitchcock used him again in Foreign Correspondent (1940).

MGM used him as a villain in Bitter Sweet (1940), and he performed a similar function for Edward Small
in The Son of Monte Cristo (1940). Sanders made his last appearance as Simon Templar in The Saint in
Palm Springs (1941), then MGM called him back for Rage in Heaven (1941), an early film noir, playing
the trustworthy good guy whose best friend, Robert Montgomery, goes murderously insane and sets him up
for the rap.

Sanders was a Nazi in Man Hunt (1941), but heroic in Sundown (1941).

The Falcon

RKO had been in dispute with Leslie Charteris, creator of The Saint, so they stopped the series and put
Sanders in a new B picture series about a suave crimefighter, The Falcon. The first entry was The Gay
Falcon (1941). It was popular and quickly followed by A Date with the Falcon (1942).
At Fox, he was in Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942) with Tyrone Power, then it was back
to The Falcon Takes Over (1942), based on Farewell, My Lovely.

MGM used him in Her Cardboard Lover (1942), and he was one of several stars in Tales of Manhattan
(1942).

Sanders was tiring of The Falcon, so he handed the role to his brother Tom Conway in The Falcon's
Brother (1942), in which both appeared (and Sanders was killed off). The only other film in which the two
siblings appeared together was Death of a Scoundrel (1956), in which they also played brothers.

A-picture leading man

Sanders was borrowed by United Artists to play the lead in an A film, The Moon and Sixpence (1942),
based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham.[15]

In July 1942, Fox suspended him for refusing the lead in The Undying Monster (1942). "I like to be seen in
pictures that at least seem to be slightly worthwhile."[8] In September, they suspended him again for
refusing an "unsympathetic role" in The Immortal Sergeant (he was replaced by Morton Lowry).[16] In
November, Fox and Sanders came to terms, with the studio offering him a raise in pay and the lead in a
film, School for Saboteurs, which became They Came to Blow Up America.[17]

Sanders was a pirate villain in The Black Swan (1943), again fighting Tyrone Power, at Fox; the same
studio used him in Quiet Please, Murder (1943).

RKO called him back for This Land Is Mine (1943). They bought an original story for him, Nine Lives, but
it does not appear to have been made.[18]

He was lent to Columbia for Appointment in Berlin (1943).[19]

In February 1943, Fox announced it was developing three film projects for Sanders – The Porcelain Lady,
a murder mystery, plus biopics of the Earl of Suffolk and Bethune.[20]

Fox originally announced him to play the role of the detective in Laura (1944) alongside Laird Cregar, but
neither ended up being in the final film.[21]

Fox finished his long-term contract with the studio in Paris After Dark (1943) and The Lodger (1944),
playing the romantic lead to Laird Cregar's title villain.

RKO

Sanders signed a new three-film contract with RKO, starting with Action in Arabia (1944).[22] After
starring as a tragic Russian judge in Summer Storm (1944), Fox called him back to do a Lodger follow-up
with Cregar, Hangover Square (1945).

Sanders played Lord Henry Wotton in the film version of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) at MGM, and
had the lead in The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1946) at Universal. He did three films for United
Artists: A Scandal in Paris (1946), The Strange Woman (1946), and The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947).

Sanders was the third lead in the elegiac The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) at Fox, supporting Gene Tierney
and Rex Harrison.
After playing the lead in Lured (1947), Fox cast him as Charles II in its expensive Forever Amber (1949).
The same studio used him in The Fan (1949). He was a villain in Cecil B. DeMille's biblical epic Samson
and Delilah (1949), the most popular film of the year.

All About Eve and beyond

For his role as the acerbic, cold-blooded theatre critic Addison

DeWitt in All About Eve (1950), Sanders won an Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actor.[23]

He was a leading man in Black Jack (1950), but was back to

supporting/villain roles in I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1951).
He signed a three-picture deal with MGM, for which he did The
Light Touch (1951) and Ivanhoe (1952), playing Sir Brian de
Bois-Guilbert and dying in a duel with Robert Taylor after
professing his love for Jewish maiden Rebecca, played by
Elizabeth Taylor. It was a huge success.[24]

He followed it with Assignment – Paris! (1952), a thriller; Call

Me Madam (1953), a rare musical role for Sanders; and Witness to
Murder (1954). He starred as King Richard the Lionheart in King As Addison DeWitt in the trailer for All
Richard and the Crusaders (1954). About Eve (1950)

Sanders went to Italy to appear opposite Ingrid Bergman in

Journey to Italy (1954). Back in Hollywood, he made several movies for MGM: Jupiter's Darling (1955),
Moonfleet (1955), The Scarlet Coat (1955), and The King's Thief (1955) (again as Charles II).[25]

In 1955, he was announced as hosting and occasionally appearing in The Ringmaster, a TV series about
the circus.[26] The series was never made. Instead, Sanders was in "A Portrait of a Murderer" on The 20th
Century-Fox Hour, a remake of Laura (1944), playing the role of Waldo Lydecker, made famous by
Clifton Webb.

Sanders was then usually a supporting actor: Never Say Goodbye (1956), While the City Sleeps (1956),
That Certain Feeling (1956). On television Sanders appeared with his wife Zsa Zsa Gabor in The Ford
Television Theatre ("Autumn Fever"), and he had roles in Screen Directors Playhouse.

Sanders played the lead in Death of a Scoundrel (1956) and the TV series The George Sanders Mystery
Theater (1957).[27]

Sanders was in The Seventh Sin (1957), The Whole Truth (1958), From the Earth to the Moon (1958), and
That Kind of Woman (1959). He was seen on TV in Schlitz Playhouse, Studio 57, and Decision.

He worked one last time with Power on Solomon and Sheba (1959); Power died during filming and was
replaced by Yul Brynner.[28]

Sanders was in A Touch of Larceny (1960) and The Last Voyage (1960). He had a rare lead in Bluebeard's
Ten Honeymoons (1960) then after Cone of Silence (1960) had the star part in Village of the Damned
(1960), a surprise hit.

Then, it was back to supporting parts: Five Golden Hours (1961), Erik the Conqueror (1961), The Rebel
(1961), Operation Snatch (1962), In Search of the Castaways (1962). On TV he guest starred on
Goodyear Theatre, Alcoa Theatre, General Electric Theater, and Checkmate.
Sanders was top-billed in Cairo (1963), then appeared in The Cracksman (1963), Dark Purpose (1964),
and The Golden Head (1964). Peter Sellers and Sanders appeared together in The Pink Panther sequel A
Shot in the Dark (1964). Sanders had earlier inspired Sellers's character Hercules Grytpype-Thynne in the
BBC radio comedy series The Goon Show (1951–60).[29]

Sanders guest-starred in The Rogues, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and Daniel Boone. He played an
upper-crust English villain, G. Emory Partridge, in two episodes of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. in 1965,
"The Gazebo in the Maze Affair" and "The Yukon Affair". He also portrayed Mr. Freeze in two episodes
of the live-action TV series Batman, both shown in February 1966.

In films, he was in Last Plane to Baalbek (1965), Trunk to Cairo (1965), The Amorous Adventures of Moll
Flanders (1965), The Quiller Memorandum (1966), Warning Shot (1967), and Good Times (1967) with
Sonny and Cher.

Sanders's last significant performance was voicing the malevolent Bengal tiger Shere Khan in the Walt
Disney production of The Jungle Book (1967).

Sanders declared bankruptcy in 1966 due to some poor investments.[30]

Final films

After being top-billed in The Body Stealers (1967), Sanders was in One Step to Hell (1968), another
version of Laura (1968) (again as Waldo), The Girl from Rio (1968), The Candy Man (1969), and The Best
House in London (1969).

He had a supporting role in John Huston's The Kremlin Letter (1969), in which his first scene showed him
dressed in drag and playing the piano in a gay bar in San Francisco. In 1969, he announced he was leaving
show business.[31]

He continued to act, though; his final roles were "Fade Out" with Stanley Baker on ITV Sunday Night, The
Night of the Assassin (1970), Mission: Impossible ("The Merchant"), Rendezvous with Dishonour (1971);
Doomwatch (1972), a feature-film version of a contemporary BBC television series; Endless Night (1972),
and Psychomania (1973).

Novels

Two ghostwritten crime novels were published under his name to cash in on his fame at the height of his
wartime film series. The first was Crime on My Hands (1944), written in the first person, and mentioning
his Saint and Falcon films.[32] This was followed by Stranger at Home in 1946. Both were written by
female authors: the former was by Craig Rice, and the latter by Leigh Brackett.

Singing

In 1958, Sanders recorded an album called The George Sanders Touch: Songs for the Lovely Lady. The
album, released by ABC-Paramount Records, featured lush string arrangements of romantic ballads,
crooned by Sanders in a fit baritone/bass (spanning from low to middle C), including "Such is My Love", a
song he had himself composed. After going to great lengths to get the role, he appeared in the Broadway
cast of South Pacific, but was overwhelmed with anxiety over the singing and quickly dropped out. His
singing voice can be heard in The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry, Summer Storm, and Call Me Madam. He
also signed on for the role of Sheridan Whiteside in the stage musical Sherry! (1967), based on Kaufman
and Hart's play The Man Who Came to Dinner, but he found the stage production demanding and quit after
his wife Benita Hume discovered that she had terminal bone
cancer.

During the production of The Jungle Book, Sanders was

unavailable to provide the singing voice for his character Shere
Khan during the final recording of the song, "That's What Friends
Are For". According to Richard Sherman, Bill Lee, a member of
The Mellomen, was called in to substitute for Sanders.[33]

Personal life
As Lord Henry Wotton in the trailer for
On 27 October 1940, Sanders married Susan Larson (real name The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Elsie Poole). The couple divorced in 1949. From later that year
until 1954, Sanders was married to Zsa Zsa Gabor, with whom he
starred in the film Death of a Scoundrel (1956). On 10 February 1959, Sanders married Benita Hume,
widow of Ronald Colman. She died of bone cancer in 1967, aged 60, the same year that Sanders's brother
Tom Conway died of liver failure. Sanders had become distant from his brother because of Tom's drinking
problem.[34] Sanders endured a further blow in the same year with the death of their mother Margarethe,
meaning that Sanders suffered three bereavements in a very short period of time.

Sanders' autobiography Memoirs of a Professional Cad was published in 1960 and gathered critical praise
for its wit. Sanders suggested the title A Dreadful Man for his biography, later written by his friend Brian
Aherne and published in 1979.[35] Sanders's fourth and last marriage on 4 December 1970 was to Magda
Gabor, the elder sister of his second wife. This marriage lasted only 32 days, after which he began drinking
heavily.[36][37]

Final years and death

Sanders suffered from dementia in the last few years of his
life, worsened by waning health, and visibly teetered in his
last films, owing to a loss of balance. Even before his
dementia, Sanders had grown increasingly reclusive and
depressed due to a string of tragedies including the deaths of
his third wife, his mother, and his brother Tom in the space of
a year, followed by a failed sausage investment, which cost
him millions, dementia diagnosis, a quick divorce from his
fourth wife, and a volatile on-off relationship over four years
with another woman. According to Aherne's biography, he
also had a minor stroke. Sanders could not bear the prospect Sanders as Captain Billy Leech in The
of losing his health or needing help to carry out everyday Black Swan (1942)
tasks, and became deeply depressed. About this time, he
found that he could no longer play his grand piano, so he
dragged it outside and smashed it with an axe. His last girlfriend, Lorraine Chanel, with whom he had an
on-off relationship in the last four years of his life, persuaded him to sell his beloved house in Majorca,
Spain, which he later bitterly regretted. From then on, he drifted.[38]

On 23 April 1972, Sanders checked into a hotel in Castelldefels, a coastal town near Barcelona, where he
phoned his friend George Mikell. He died of a cardiac arrest two days later after swallowing the contents of
five bottles of the barbiturate Nembutal.[39][40] He left behind two suicide notes, one of which read:
 Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving
you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.[41][42][43][44]

Sanders's body was returned to Britain for funeral services. He was cremated, and his ashes were scattered
in the English Channel.

David Niven wrote in Bring on the Empty Horses (1975), the second volume of his memoirs, that in 1937,
his friend George Sanders had predicted that he would commit suicide from a barbiturate overdose when he
was 65, and that in his 50s, he had appeared to be depressed because his marriages had failed and several
tragedies had befallen him.[45]

Honours and references in popular culture

Sanders has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for films at 1636 Vine Street and television at 7007
Hollywood Boulevard.[46]

Ray Davies pays homage to grace and elegance projected by Sanders in his classic[47] Kinks song
"Celluloid Heroes" with the lyric "If you covered him with garbage / George Sanders would still have
style."[48]

George Sanders is mentioned in "House Arrest," the 24th episode of The Sopranos. During a therapy
session with Dr. Melfi, Tony, frustrated with his recent lack of progress, angrily mentions he's "ready for
the George Sanders long walk.”

Complete filmography
Love, Life and Laughter (1934) as Singer in Public Bar (uncredited)
Things to Come (1936) as Pilot (uncredited)
Strange Cargo (1936) as Roddy Burch
Find the Lady (1936) as Curly Randall
The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936) as Indifference
Dishonour Bright (1936) as Lisle
Lloyd's of London (1936) as Lord Everett Stacy
Love Is News (1937) as Count Andre de Guyon
Slave Ship (1937) as Lefty
The Lady Escapes (1937) as Rene Blanchard
Lancer Spy (1937) as Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
International Settlement (1938) as Del Forbes
Four Men and a Prayer (1938) as Wyatt Leigh
Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1939) as Eric Norvel
The Outsider (1939) as Anton Ragatzy
So This Is London (1939) as Dr. de Reseke
The Saint Strikes Back (1939) as Simon Templar / The Saint
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) as Schlager
The Saint in London (1939) as Simon Templar / The Saint
Nurse Edith Cavell (1939) as Capt. Heinrichs
Allegheny Uprising (1939) as Capt. Swanson
The Saint's Double Trouble (1940) as Simon Templar aka The Saint / 'Boss' Duke Bates
Green Hell (1940) as Forrester
The House of the Seven Gables (1940) as Jaffrey Pyncheon
Rebecca (1940) as Jack Favell
The Saint Takes Over (1940) as Simon Templar / The Saint
Foreign Correspondent (1940) as Scott ffolliott
Bitter Sweet (1940) as Baron von Tranisch
The Son of Monte Cristo (1940) as Gen. Gurko Lanen
The Saint in Palm Springs (1941) as Simon Templar / The Saint
Rage in Heaven (1941) as Ward Andrews
Man Hunt (1941) as Major Quive-Smith
Sundown (1941) as Coombes
The Gay Falcon (1941) as Gay Laurence / The Falcon
A Date with the Falcon (1942) as Gay Laurence / The Falcon
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942) as Sir Arthur Blake
The Falcon Takes Over (1942) as Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
Her Cardboard Lover (1942) as Tony Barling
Tales of Manhattan (1942) as Williams
The Falcon's Brother (1942) as Gay Lawrence / The Falcon
The Moon and Sixpence (1942) as Charles Strickland
The Black Swan (1942) as Capt. Billy Leech
Quiet Please, Murder (1942) as Jim Fleg
This Land Is Mine (1943) as George Lambert
They Came to Blow Up America (1943) as Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
Appointment in Berlin (1943) as Wing Cmdr. Keith Wilson
Paris After Dark (1943) as Dr. Andre Marbel
The Lodger (1944) as Inspector John Warwick
Action in Arabia (1944) as Michael Gordon
Summer Storm (1944) as Fedor Mikhailovich Petroff
Hangover Square (1945) as Dr. Allan Middleton
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) as Lord Henry Wotton
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945) as Harry Melville Quincey
A Scandal in Paris (1946) as Eugène François Vidocq
The Strange Woman (1946) as John Evered
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947) as Georges Duroy
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) as Miles Fairley
Lured (1947) as Robert Fleming
Forever Amber (1947) as King Charles II
The Fan (1949) as Lord Robert Darlington
Samson and Delilah (1949) as The Saran of Gaza
All About Eve (1950) as Addison DeWitt
Black Jack (1950) as Mike Alexander
I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1951) as J.F. Noble
The Light Touch (1951) as Felix Guignol
Ivanhoe (1952) as De Bois-Guilbert
Assignment – Paris! (1952) as Nicholas Strang
Call Me Madam (1953) as General Cosmo Constantine
Witness to Murder (1954) as Albert Richter
King Richard and the Crusaders (1954) as King Richard I
Journey to Italy (Viaggio in Italia) (1954) as Alexander 'Alex' Joyce
Jupiter's Darling (1955) as Fabius Maximus
Moonfleet (1955) as Lord Ashwood
The Scarlet Coat (1955) as Dr. Jonathan Odell
The King's Thief (1955) as Charles II
Never Say Goodbye (1956) as Victor
While the City Sleeps (1956) as Mark Loving
That Certain Feeling (1956) as Larry Larkin
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) as Clementi Sabourin
The Seventh Sin (1957) as Tim Waddington
Rock-A-Bye Baby (1958) as Danny Poole (1959) (scenes cut)
The Whole Truth (1958) as Carliss
From the Earth to the Moon (1958) as Stuyvesant Nicholl
That Kind of Woman (1959) as A.L.
Solomon and Sheba (1959) as Adonijah
A Touch of Larceny (1960) as Sir Charles Holland
The Last Voyage (1960) as Captain Robert Adams
Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons (1960) as Henri Landru
Cone of Silence (1960) as Sir Arnold Hobbes
Village of the Damned (1960) as Gordon Zellaby
The Rebel (aka, Call Me Genius, 1961) as Sir Charles Brewer
Five Golden Hours (1961) as Mr. Bing
Le Rendez-vous (1961) as J.K. / Kellermann
Operation Snatch (1962) as Maj. Hobson
In Search of the Castaways (1962) as Thomas Ayerton
Cairo (1963) as The Major
The Cracksman (1963) as Guv'nor
Dark Purpose (1964) as Raymond Fontaine
The Golden Head (1964) as Basil Palmer
A Shot in the Dark (1964) as Benjamin Ballon
Last Plane to Baalbeck (1965) as Prince Makowski
The Golden Head (1965) as Basil Palmer
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965) as The Banker
Trunk to Cairo (1965) as Professor Schlieben
The Quiller Memorandum (1966) as Gibbs
Witchdoctor in Tails as the narrator (1966)
Warning Shot (1967) as Calvin York
Good Times (1967) as Mordicus / Knife McBlade / White hunter / Zarubian
The Jungle Book (1967) as Shere Khan, the Tiger (voice)
Laura (1968 TV movie) as Waldo Lydecker
King of Africa (1968) as Captain Walter Phillips
 The Candy Man (1969) as Sidney Carter
The Girl from Rio (1969) as Masius
The Body Stealers (1969) as General Armstrong
The Best House in London (1969) as Sir Francis Leybourne
The Kremlin Letter (1970) as Warlock
Rendezvous with Dishonour (1970) as General Downes
Doomwatch (1972) as The Admiral – Sir Geoffrey
Endless Night (1972) as Andrew Lippincott
Psychomania (1973) as Shadwell (final film role)

Television
Screen Directors Playhouse (1956) as Charles Ferris / Baron
Ford Star Jubilee "You're the Top" (1956)
The George Sanders Mystery Theater (1957)
What's My Line? 15 September 1957 (Episode No. 380) (season 9, episode 3) Mystery
Guest
The Rogues (1965) as Leonard Carvel
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "The Traitor" (1965) as Fenton
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. "The Gazebo in the Maze Affair" and "The Yukon Affair" (1965) as
G. Emory Partridge
Daniel Boone (1966) as Col. Roger Barr
Batman (1966) as Mr. Freeze
Mission: Impossible - The Merchant (1971) as Armand Anderssarian

Broadway
Conversation Piece, at the 44th Street Theatre, 1934

Notes

^ a: Nicholas II's sister Olga Alexandrovna married Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg, but he was
born in 1868, and therefore could not have been the father of Henry Sanders.

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Further reading
Alistair, Rupert (2018). "George Sanders". The Name Below the Title : 65 Classic Movie
Character Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age (softcover) (First ed.). Great Britain:
Independently published. pp. 237–239. ISBN 978-1-7200-3837-5.
External links
George Sanders (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001695/) at IMDb
George Sanders (https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/59023) at the Internet Broadway
Database
George Sanders (http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/494407/) at the BFI's
Screenonline
George Sanders (https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/169430/wp) at the TCM Movie
Database

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