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George Sanders (1906–1972) was a British voice actor, writer, composer, and autobiographer. Born George Henry Sanders in Saint Petersburg, he began his professional career in 1929. He was educated at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. Sanders received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His musical work is associated with baroque and classical genres.
Sanders was married to Zsa Zsa Gabor, Magda Gabor, and Benita Hume. He was the sibling of Tom Conway. He died by suicide due to a drug overdose in Castelldefels in 1972. Among his written works are *Memoirs of a Professional Cad* and *Voting in Sanity*.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 22
Top works
- Memoirs of a Professional Cad
- Voting in Sanity
- Die Abstammung der Cherokee-Indianer : Eine Spurensuche Auf der Basis Traditioneller Cherokee-Überlieferungen
- Het present van Staat
- Sanders Sports Autograph Price Guide, 1994
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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…
Known for
- Footsteps on the Ceiling — Addison DeWitt (archive footage)2013
- Ingrid Bergman Remembered — Self (archive footage)1996
- Death In Hollywood1990
- Disney's Greatest Villains — Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)1977
- Bob Hope's World of Comedy — Self (archive footage)1976
- Psychomania — Shadwell1973
- Endless Night — Andrew Lippincott1972
- Doomwatch — The Admiral1972
- The Kremlin Letter — Warlock1970
- The Night of the Assassin — General Downes1970
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1906
- Active to
- 1972
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 237
- Total plays
- 1,167
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George Henry Sanders (3 July 1906 – 25 April 1972) was an English film and television actor, singer-songwriter, music composer, and author. His prominent English accent and bass voice often led him to be cast as sophisticated but villainous characters. He is perhaps best known as Addison DeWitt in All About Eve (1950), Jack Favell in Rebecca (1940), and the voice of the malevolent tiger Shere Khan in The Jungle Book (1967). His career spanned more than 40 years. <a href="https://www.last.fm/musi
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A short history of<i>SHELX</i>
· 2007 · cited 79,950x
- Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
· 1997 · cited 48,635x
- Crystal structure refinement with<i>SHELXL</i>
· 2015 · cited 40,900x
- <i>SHELXT</i>– Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination
· 2015 · cited 27,657x
- A new and rapid colorimetric determination of acetylcholinesterase activity
· 1961 · cited 23,202x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1906-07-03 ) 3 July 1906, Saint Petersburg , Russia
- Died
- 25 April 1972 (1972-04-25) (aged 65), Castelldefels , Barcelona , Spain
- Alma mater
- Manchester Technical College
- Occupations
- Actor singer
- Years active
- 1929–1972
- Partner
- Lorraine Chanel (1968–1972)
- Relatives
- Tom Conway (brother)
- Awards
- Hollywood Walk of Fame
via Wikipedia infobox
Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to George Sanders, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
George Henry Sanders (3 July 1906 – 25 April 1972) was a British actor and singer whose career 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 remembered for his roles as the wicked 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), theater critic Addison DeWitt in All About Eve (1950, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), Sir Brian De Bois-Guilbert in Ivanhoe (1952), King Richard the Lionheart in King Richard and the Crusaders (1954), Mr. Freeze in a two-part episode of Batman (1966), and the voice of Shere Khan in Disney's The Jungle Book (1967). He also starred as Simon Templar, in five of the eight films in The Saint series (1939–1941), and as a suave Saint-like crimefighter in the first four of the sixteen The Falcon films (1941–1942).
Early life
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