George Sanders
![Portrait of Sanders by [[Allan Warren]], 1972](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/George_Sanders_Allan_Warren.jpg)
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 Folliott 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).
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