Village of the Damned
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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, baritone voice often led him to be cast as sophisticated but villainous characters.
His film debut, in 1936, was as Curly Randall in Find the Lady (1936). His U.S. debut, the same year, with Twentieth Century-Fox, was as Lord Everett Stacy in Lloyd's of London (1936). During the late 1930s and early 1940s he made a number of movies as Simon Templar--the Saint--and as Gay Lawrence, the Falcon.
- July 3, 1906
- April 25, 1972
George Sanders was born of English parents in St. Petersburg, Russia. He worked in a Birmingham textile mill, in the tobacco business and as a writer in advertising. He entered show business in London as a chorus boy, going from there to cabaret, radio and theatrical understudy.
- January 1, 1
- St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
- January 1, 1
- Castelldefels, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
George Sanders was a British actor, music composer, singer-songwriter, and author best remembered for playing sophisticated but villainous characters. His acting career spanned over forty years over the course of which he performed in numerous films, most notably ‘Rebecca,’ ‘Foreign Correspondent,’ and ‘All About Eve,’ the last of ...
May 9, 2024 · George Sanders (born July 3, 1906, St. Petersburg, Russia—died April 25, 1972, Barcelona, Spain) was a Russian-born British actor who specialized in portraying elegant yet dissolute characters and was most noted for his roles as villains.
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Feb 23, 2024 · Who was George Sanders? George Henry Sanders was a Russian-born English film and television actor, singer-songwriter, music composer, and author. His heavy English accent and bass voice often led him to be cast as sophisticated but villainous characters.
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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 ...
