George Sanders

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 upper-class English accent and 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), 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), and as Simon Templar, The Saint, in five films made in the 1930s and 1940s.

Sanders also wrote or co-wrote a number of songs over the years, including "The Chatterbox" (1927), "Rush Hours" (1928), "Haste" (1929), "I'm A Little Teapot" (with Clarence Kelley), "They Say It's Gonna Rain" (with Kerry Delius), "I'm Falling For You" (with Clarence Williams and Joe Trafalgar Hubert), "Minaret" (with Clarence Kelley), "All Alone And Lonely" (with W. Schwartz and Al Pearson, 1941).

Sanders was born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, at number 6 Petrovski Ostrov. His parents were Henry Peter Ernest Sanders (1868–1960), and Margarethe Jenny Bertha Sanders (née Kolbe; 1883–1967), who was born in Saint Petersburg, of mostly German, but also Estonian and Scottish, ancestry. 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.[6][a] The actor Tom Conway (1904–1967) was George Sanders's 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 England. 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.

Sanders travelled to South America where he managed a tobacco plantation. The Depression sent him back to England. He worked at an advertising agency, where the company secretary, the aspiring actress Greer Garson, suggested that he take up a career in acting.[11]

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.[

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.[12] He appeared in a British film, Love, Life and Laughter (1934).

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.[10]

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

Some of these British films were distributed by 20th Century Fox who were looking for an actor to play a villain in their 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.[13]

Lloyds of London was a big hit and in November 1936 Fox put Sanders under a seven-year contract (though he would frequently be loaned to other studios, notably RKO).[14]

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. He and del Río were promptly reteamed in International Settlement (1938).

Sanders was second-billed (to Richard Greene) in John Ford's Four Men and a Prayer (1938), 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.

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).[15][16] 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 England, 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 wanted him for a supporting role in 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 villain in Man Hunt (1941) but heroic in Sundown (1941).

RKO had been fighting 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.

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.[17]

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."[10] In September they suspended him again for refusing an "unsympathetic role" in The Immortal Sergeant (he was replaced by Morton Lowry).[18] 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.[19]

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.[20]

He was loaned to Columbia for Appointment in Berlin (1943).[21]

In February 1943 Fox announced they were developing three films for Sanders - The Porcelain Lady, a murder mystery, plus biopics of the Earl of Suffolk and Bethune.[22]

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.[23]

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

Sanders signed a new three-film contract with RKO, starting with Action in Arabia (1944).[24] 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 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 their expensive blockbuster 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.

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.[25]

He was a leading man in Black Jack (1950) but back to supporting/villain roles in I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1951). He signed a three picture deal with MGM for whom 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 the Jewish maiden Rebecca, played by Elizabeth Taylor. It was a huge success.[26]

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 Richard and the Crusaders (1954).

Sanders went to Italy to appear opposite Ingrid Bergman in Journey to Italy (1954). Back in Hollywood he made several for MGM: Jupiter's Darling (1955), Moonfleet (1955), The Scarlet Coat (1955), and The King's Thief (1955) (again as Charles II).[27]

In 1955 it was announced he would host and occasionally appear in The Ringmaster, a TV series about the circus.[28] 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 now 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).[29]

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.[30]

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).[31]

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 Shere Khan in the Walt Disney production of The Jungle Book (1967).

Sanders declared bankruptcy in 1966 due to some poor investments.[32]

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.[33]

However, he continued to act. 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).

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.[34] 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.

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 in 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 refused 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.[35]

On 27 October 1940, Sanders married Susan Larson (real name 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) after their divorce. On 10 February 1959, Sanders married Benita Hume, widow of Ronald Colman. She died in 1967, the same year Sanders's brother Tom Conway died of liver failure; Sanders had become distant from his brother because of his drinking problem.[36] Sanders endured a further blow in the same year with the death of their mother Margarethe.

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.[37] Sanders's 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.[38][39]

Sanders suffered from dementia, worsened by waning health, and visibly teetered in his last films, owing to a loss of balance. Sanders grew increasingly reclusive and depressed due to a string of tragedies including the loss of his wife, his mother, and his brother Tom in the space of a year, followed by a failed sausage investment which cost him millions. According to Aherne's biography, he also had a minor stroke. Sanders could not bear the prospect of losing his health or needing help to carry out everyday tasks and became deeply depressed. At 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 persuaded him to sell his beloved house in Majorca, Spain, which he later bitterly regretted. From then on he drifted.[40]

On 23 April 1972, Sanders checked into a hotel in Castelldefels, a coastal town near Barcelona. He died of a cardiac arrest two days later after swallowing the contents of five bottles of the barbiturate Nembutal.[41][42] He left behind three 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.[43][44][45][46]

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.[47]

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

He is mentioned in the song "Celluloid Heroes" by the Kinks: "If you covered him with garbage/George Sanders would still have style."[48]

Sanders' ghost makes an appearance in Clive Barker's novel Coldheart Canyon (2001) as well as in the animated feature film Dante's Inferno (2007). In 2005, Charles Dennis played Sanders in his own play High Class Heel at the National Arts Club in New York City.[citation needed]

In the "House Arrest" episode of The Sopranos, Tony tells Doctor Melfi of his boredom and states "I'm ready for the George Sanders long walk here."

In the 2000 film Wonder Boys, Sanders is one of the people Tobey Maguire's character mentions when he is naming high-profile suicides that have taken place in distant memory.

Academy Award-winning British film and television actor George Sanders was best known for his roles of Addison DeWitt in the 1950 film All About Eve as well as the villainous tiger Shere Khan in The Jungle Book.

Sanders was born on July 3, 1906 in St. Petersburg, Russia of British parents. While he was a child the family returned to Britain with the advent of the Russian Revolution. As a youth he worked in various jobs before finding employment with an advertising agency. It was there that the company secretary, an aspiring actress named Greer Garson, suggested a career in acting.

He made his British film debut in 1934 and after a string of British films made his American debut in 1936 with a role in Lloyd's of London. His British accent and sensibilities, combined with his suave, snobbish and somewhat menacing air was utilised in American films during the next decade. He played memorable supporting roles in prestige productions such as Rebecca, in which he goaded the sinister Judith Anderson as Mrs Danvers, in her persecution against Joan Fontaine and he played leading roles in lesser pictures such as Rage in Heaven. During this time he was also the lead in both The Falcon and The Saint film series.

In 1950 he gave his most widely recognised performance and achieved his greatest success as the acid tongued theatre critic Addison De Witte in All About Eve, winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for this role.

He moved into the field of television and was responsible for the successful series George Sanders Mystery Theatre and provided the voice for the malevolent Shere-Khan in the Walt Disney production of The Jungle Book.

Offscreen Sanders cultivated the image of a cultured playboy, a role not far removed from his screen characterisations, but in reality he was very happily married to actress Benita Hume from 1959 until her death in 1967.

He had been married from 1949 until 1957, to the Hungarian actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, and after Hume's death he married another of the Gabor sisters - Magda, but this union lasted less than a year.

For many years Sanders had lived in Spain and it was in Barcelona that he committed suicide with an overdose of barbiturates, leaving behind a suicide note that attributed his action to boredom. He had no children.

He has been honoured with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame - for Motion Pictures at 1636 Vine St, and for Television at 7007 Hollywood Blvd.

Actor. He will be remembered for appearing in 123 films between 1934 and 1972. These films include, his United States film debut in 1936, "Lloyds Of London" and in 1950, "All About Eve,” for which he was an Oscar recipient for best supporting actor in his role as the villainous drama critic. Among his television appearances are, "Mission Impossible" from 1966 to 1973, "Batman" in 1968, "Daniel Boone" from 1964 to 1970, "The Rogues" from 1964 to 1965, "The Man From U.N.C.L.E. ,” from 1964 to 1968, “Voyages To The The Bottom Of The Sea" from 1964 to 1968, and "Screen Directors Playhouse" from 1955 to 1957. In 1957 he hosted a TV series, “The George Sanders Mystery Theater.” With an upper-class British accent, his baritone to brass voice performed for an album, “The George Sanders Touch: Songs for the Lovely Lady,” which was released in 1958. Two mystery novels were published using his name, yet were actually written by two female ghostwriters: “Crime on my Hands” in 1944 and “Stranger at Home” in 1946. His autobiography, “Memoirs of a Professional Cad,” was published with much success in 1960. His death was officially a suicide since he left behind three gentlemanly written suicide notes, 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." At the time of his death, he had been suffering physical and mental health problems. He was married four times. With in months, his third wife, his brother actor Tom Conway, and mother all died in 1967. After divorcing second wife Zsa Zsa Gabor, he married her older sister and his fourth wife Magda on December 3, 1970, which was annulled after only 32 days. He was diagnosed with dementia after falling on the set of a show during filming; it was suggested that he actually had a stroke. At the time of his death, he had been drinking alcohol heavily for many months. His last performance, which was released in 1973, was “Psychomania” or “The Death Wheeler,” a British horror film. Born in Russia to British parents Henry and Margaret Sanders, his family escaped Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution leaving most of their wealth there, yet the parents were able to provide private education and college for their two sons and a daughter, Margaret. He held several positions including traveling to South America before attempting acting in England in 1936. He has two Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: one for Motion Pictures at 1636 Vine Street and the other for TV at 7007 Hollywood Boulevard.

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)

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

The Merchant (1971) as Armand Anderssarian

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