George Sanders

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July 3 1906

25 April 1972, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain (suicide) Sanders told David Niven in 1937, that he intended to commit suicide when he got older. In 1972, he fulfilled his promise, leaving this note: "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.".

George Henry Sanders

Magda Gabor (5 December 1970 - 1971) (divorced)

Benita Hume (10 February 1959 - 1 November 1967) (her death)

Zsa Zsa Gabor (2 April 1949 - 1 April 1954) (divorced)

Susan Larson (1940 - 1949) (divorced)

Actor

1973 Psychomania

1972 Endless Night

1972 Doomwatch

1971 Mission: Impossible (TV series)

1970 Appuntamento col disonore

1970 ITV Saturday Night Theatre (TV series)

1970 The Kremlin Letter

1969 The Best House in London

1969 The Body Stealers

1969 Die sieben Männer der Sumuru

1969 The Candy Man

1968 Caccia ai violenti

1968 Laura (TV movie)

1967 The Jungle Book (voice)

1967 Good Times

1967 Warning Shot (TV movie)

1966 The Quiller Memorandum

1966 Einer spielt falsch

1966 Batman (TV series)

1966 Daniel Boone (TV series)

1965 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV series)

1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

1965 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series)

1965 The Rogues (TV series)

1964 The Golden Head

1964 F.B.I. operazione Baalbeck

1964 A Shot in the Dark

1964 L'intrigo

1963 The Cracksman

1963 Cairo

1962 In Search of the Castaways

1962 Operation Snatch

1962 Checkmate (TV series)

1961 Rendezvous

1956-1961 General Electric Theater (TV series)

1961 The Rebel

1961 Five Golden Hours

1960 Village of the Damned

1960 Cone of Silence

1960 Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons

1960 The Last Voyage

1960 Alcoa Theatre (TV series)

1959 A Touch of Larceny

1959 Solomon and Sheba

1959 That Kind of Woman

1958 From the Earth to the Moon

1958 Decision (TV series)

1958 The Whole Truth

1958 Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (TV series)

1957 The Seventh Sin

1957 The George Sanders Mystery Theater (TV series)

1956 Death of a Scoundrel

1956 Screen Directors Playhouse (TV series)

1956 That Certain Feeling

1956 While the City Sleeps

1956 The Ford Television Theatre (TV series)

1956 Never Say Goodbye

1955 The 20th Century-Fox Hour (TV series)

1955 The King's Thief

1955 The Scarlet Coat

1955 Moonfleet

1955 The Big Tip Off (scenes deleted)

1955 Jupiter's Darling

1954 Viaggio in Italia

1954 King Richard and the Crusaders

1954 Witness to Murder

1953 Call Me Madam

1952 Assignment: Paris

1952 Ivanhoe

1952 The Light Touch

1951 I Can Get It for You Wholesale

1950 All About Eve

1950 Black Jack

1949 Samson and Delilah

1949 The Fan

1947 Forever Amber

1947 Lured

1947 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

1947 The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

1946 The Strange Woman

1946 Thieves' Holiday

1945 The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

1945 The Picture of Dorian Gray

1945 Hangover Square

1944 Summer Storm

1944 Action in Arabia

1944 The Lodger

1943 Paris After Dark

1943 Appointment in Berlin

1943 They Came to Blow Up America

1943 This Land Is Mine

1942 Quiet Please: Murder

1942 The Black Swan

1942 The Moon and Sixpence

1942 The Falcon's Brother

1942 Tales of Manhattan

1942 Her Cardboard Lover

1942 The Falcon Takes Over

1942 Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

1942 A Date with the Falcon

1941 The Gay Falcon

1941 Sundown

1941 Man Hunt

1941 Rage in Heaven

1941 The Saint in Palm Springs

1940 The Son of Monte Cristo

1940 Bitter Sweet

1940 Foreign Correspondent

1940 The Saint Takes Over

1940 Rebecca

1940 The House of the Seven Gables

1940 The Saint's Double Trouble

1940 Green Hell

1939 Allegheny Uprising

1939 Nurse Edith Cavell

1939 The Saint in London

1939 Confessions of a Nazi Spy

1939 So This Is London

1939 The Saint Strikes Back

1939 The Outsider

1939 Mr. Moto's Last Warning

1938 Four Men and a Prayer

1938 International Settlement

1937 Lancer Spy

1937 The Lady Escapes

1937 Slave Ship

1937 Love Is News

1936 The Man Who Could Work Miracles

1936 Lloyd's of London

1936 Dishonour Bright

1936 Strange Cargo

1936 Find the Lady

1934 Love, Life and Laughter (uncredited)

Writer

1954 The Stranger Came Home (novel)

Appearances

1970 The Hollywood Squares (TV series)

1970 The David Frost Show (TV series)

1967 The Hollywood Palace (TV series)

1966 Today (TV series)

1966 Witchdoctor in Tails (documentary) Narrator

1964 Il mondo di notte numero 3 (documentary) Narrator

1961 Il mondo di notte (documentary) Narrator (voice: English version)

1957-1961 The Perry Como Show (TV series)

1959 Frances Langford Presents (TV series)

1958 Women in Love (TV movie)

1957-1958 What's My Line? (TV series)

1958 The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (TV series)

1958 The Patrice Munsel Show (TV series)

1957 Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium (TV series)

1957 The George Sanders Mystery Theater (TV series)

1957 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV series)

1956 Ford Star Jubilee (TV series)

1956 The Bob Hope Show (TV series)

1956 The Jimmy Durante Show (TV series)

1952 The 24th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)

1951 The 23th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)

Academy Awards

1951 Won Oscar Best Actor in a Supporting Role for: All About Eve (1950).

Golden Apple Awards

1942 Won Sour Apple Least Cooperative Actor

Golden Globes

1951 Nominated Golden Globe Best Supporting Actor
for: All About Eve (1950).

Walk of Fame

1960 Star on the Walk of Fame Motion Picture On 8 February 1960. At 1636 Vine Street Television
On 8 February 1960. At 7007 Hollywood Blvd.

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Born in Russia to British parents, George Sanders returned to England with his family on the eve of the Russian Revolution. Educated at a private school in Brighton, Sanders worked in the textile and tobacco industries before becoming an advertising copywriter. He had a beautiful baritone voice and took up a colleague's suggestion to switch careers to acting, starting out as a chorus boy in London't West End. He went on to cabaret, radio, and theatrical understudy, finally making an impact in the film Find the Lady (1936). After a quick succession of roles in British films, Sanders went to Hollywood and turned his cultivated tones to series sleuths The Saint and The Falcon.

Sanders had one of the movies' best voices, suited to Wildean epigrams such as The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), and languid tiger growls as Shere Khan in The Jungle Book (1967). A sought-after support player, he specialized in cads such as Jack Favell in Rebecca (1940). His career high came as the acidic critic Addison DeWitt in All About Eve (1950), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Director Albert Lewin, who cast Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in Dorian Gray, combed literature to find him perfect roles such as the caddish journalist in The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947). He is creepily good as a bibliophile in the tiny Quiet Please: Murder (1942), a rare Sanders star vehicle. In decline, he still managed fascinating work: Roberto Rossellini's Viaggio in Italia (1954) (Journey to Italy), and Mr. Freeze on the Batman TV series (1966-1968). Offscreen, Sanders also liked to cultivate a caddish image and was married four times. He committed suicide in 1972 by taking an overdose of barbiturates, leaving a note saying he was bored. Apparently, this had always been his intention.