Highest rated as cast or director
George Sanders's 5 titles from the 1960s have a median Balasaur Score of 76, led by Village of the Damned (78) and A Shot in the Dark (77), against 71 for those from the 1950s.
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.
Acted in 131
2010s
- 2013
Footsteps on the Ceiling
Addison DeWitt (archive footage)
2000s
- 2003
Les messages de Fritz Lang
Movie
1970s
- 1977
Disney's Greatest Villains
Shere Khan (voice) (archive footage)
- 1973
Psychomania
Shadwell
- 1972
Endless Night
Andrew Lippincott
Doomwatch
The Admiral
- 1970
The Night of the Assassin
General Downes
1960s
- 1969
The Best House in London
Sir Francis Leybourne
The Body Stealers
Gen. Armstrong
The Candy Man
Sidney Carter
- 1968
One Step to Hell
Captain Walter Phillips
Laura
Waldo Lydecker
- 1967
Good Times
Mordicus
Warning Shot
Calvin York
- 1966
The Quiller Memorandum
Gibbs
Trunk to Cairo
Professor Schlieben
- 1965
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
The Banker
- 1964
The Golden Head
Basil Palmer
F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck
Principe Makowski
Dark Purpose
Raymond Fontaine
- 1963
Cairo
The Major
The Cracksman
Guv'nor
- 1962
Operation Snatch
Maj. Hobson
- 1961
Rendezvous
Kellermann
The Rebel
Sir Charles Broward
Five Golden Hours
Mr. Bing
- 1960
Cone of Silence
Sir Arnold Hobbes
World by Night
Movie
Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
Henri Landru
The Last Voyage
Capitaine Robert Adams
A Touch of Larceny
Sir Charles Holland
1950s
- 1959
That Kind of Woman
A.L.
- 1958
From the Earth to the Moon
Stuyvesant Nicholl
The Whole Truth
Carliss
- 1957
The Seventh Sin
Tim Waddington
- 1956
Death of a Scoundrel
Clementi Sabourin
That Certain Feeling
Larry Larkin
While the City Sleeps
Mark Loving
Never Say Goodbye
Victor
- 1955
Laura
Waldo Lydecker
The King's Thief
King Charles II
The Scarlet Coat
Dr. Jonathan Odell
Moonfleet
Lord James Ashwood
- 1954
- 1953
Call Me Madam
Cosmo Constantine
General Electric Theater
Dr. Grissom, William Clark, Major Watkins · 1 episode
- 1952
Assignment: Paris
Nicholas Strang
- 1951
The Light Touch
Felix Guignol
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
John York · 1 episode
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
J F Noble
- 1950
Black Jack
Mike Alexander
1940s
- 1949
The Fan
Lord Robert Darlington
- 1947
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
Georges Duroy
- 1946
- 1945
- 1944
Action in Arabia
Michael Gordon
- 1943
Paris After Dark
Dr. Andre Marbel
Appointment in Berlin
Keith Wilson
This Land Is Mine
George Lambert
They Came to Blow Up America
Carl Steelman / Ernst Reiter
Quiet Please, Murder
Jim Fleg
- 1942
The Moon and Sixpence
Charles Strickland
The Falcon's Brother
Gaylord "Gay" Lawrence
Tales of Manhattan
Williams
Her Cardboard Lover
Tony Barling
The Falcon Takes Over
Gay Lawrence
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Sir Arthur Blake
- 1941
The Gay Falcon
Gay Laurence / The Falcon
Man Hunt
Major Quive-Smith
Rage in Heaven
Ward Andrews
The Saint In Palm Springs
Simon Templar
- 1940
Bitter Sweet
Baron Von Tranisch
The Saint Takes Over
Simon Templar
The House of the Seven Gables
Jaffrey Pyncheon
The Saint's Double Trouble
Simon Templar
Green Hell
Forrester
1930s
- 1939
Allegheny Uprising
Captain Swanson
Nurse Edith Cavell
Capt. Heinrichs
The Saint in London
Simon Templar
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Franz Schlager
The Saint Strikes Back
Simon Templar
So This Is London
Dr. de Reseke
The Outsider
Anton Ragatzy
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
Eric Norvel
- 1938
Four Men and a Prayer
Wyatt Leigh
International Settlement
Del Forbes
- 1937
Lancer Spy
Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael Bruce
The Lady Escapes
Rene Blanchard
Slave Ship
Lefty
- 1936
Lloyd's of London
Everett Stacy
Dishonour Bright
Lisle
- 1934
Love, Life and Laughter
Singer in Public Bar (uncredited)
Wrote 1
1950s
- 1954
The Unholy Four
Novel
Appearances8
1990s
- 1996
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Self (archive footage)
- 1990
1960s
- 1963
Ecco
Narrator
1950s
- 1956
- 1953
A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family
Self
- 1950
1940s
- 1948
