George Sanders

George Sanders

July 3, 1906 · 120 years old

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 villain…

Known For

35 titles
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The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book

1967 · 1h 18m · Movie

Bagheera the Panther and Baloo the Bear have a difficult time trying to convince a boy to leave the jungle for human civilization.

7.6
2
Rebecca

Rebecca

1940 · 2h 10m · Movie

A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.

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All About Eve

All About Eve

1950 · 2h 18m · Movie

A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.

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A Shot in the Dark

A Shot in the Dark

1964 · 1h 42m · Movie

Bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau falls in love with murder suspect Maria Gambrelli and tries to clear her name.

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5
Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent

1940 · 2h 0m · Movie

On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.

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6
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

1947 · 1h 44m · Movie

In 1900, a young widow finds her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.

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7
Village of the Damned

Village of the Damned

1960 · 1h 17m · Movie

In the English village of Midwich, the blonde-haired, glowing-eyed children of uncertain paternity prove to have frightening powers.

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8
The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray

1945 · 1h 50m · Movie

Londoner Dorian Gray stays young, but his portrait ages.

7.5
9
Journey to Italy

Journey to Italy

1954 · 1h 37m · Movie

An unhappily married couple attempts to find direction and insight while vacationing in Naples.

7.3
10
Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe

1952 · 1h 46m · Movie

A knight seeks to free the captive King Richard and put him back on the throne.

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11
Samson and Delilah

Samson and Delilah

1949 · 2h 14m · Movie

When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.

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12
Man Hunt

Man Hunt

1941 · 1h 45m · Movie

In July 1939, British hunter Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German agents and aided by a young woman.

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13
The Black Swan

The Black Swan

1942 · 1h 27m · Movie

An ex-pirate contends with rowdy buccaneers and a love/hate relationship with an aristocratic woman who's tougher than she seems.

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14
Lured

Lured

1947 · 1h 42m · Movie

British police are after a serial killer who lures his female victims through newspaper personal ads and sends cryptic poem clues to the cops.

7.0
15
The Quiller Memorandum

The Quiller Memorandum

1966 · 1h 44m · Movie

In the West Berlin of the 1960s, two British agents are killed by a Nazi group, prompting British Intelligence to dispatch agent Quiller to investigate.

6.3
16
The Lodger

The Lodger

1944 · 1h 24m · Movie

A landlady suspects that her new lodger is Jack the Ripper.

7.0
17
This Land Is Mine

This Land Is Mine

1943 · 1h 43m · Movie

A mild-mannered school teacher in a German-occupied town during World War II finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance.

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18
Witness to Murder

Witness to Murder

1954 · 1h 23m · Movie

A woman's sanity comes into question, after she claims to have witnessed a murder from her apartment window.

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19
Confessions of a Nazi Spy

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

1939 · 1h 44m · Movie

FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-war espionage activities of the German-American Bund.

6.7
20
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

1945 · 1h 20m · Movie

Bachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a small-town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters, glamorous hypochondriac Lettie and querulous widow Hester. His developing relationship with new colleague Deborah Brown promises ...

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21
The House of the Seven Gables

The House of the Seven Gables

1940 · 1h 29m · Movie

Based on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, this classic film follows a family feud between two brothers and an ancient curse that haunts them.

7.0
22
Rage in Heaven

Rage in Heaven

1941 · 1h 25m · Movie

Robert Montgomery and George Sanders team up to play against type in this probing psychological thriller that features Ingrid Bergman as the object of their obsessions.

6.4
23
The Girl from Rio

The Girl from Rio

1969 · 1h 34m · Movie

Having established Femina, a secret city populated entirely by beautiful women, Sumuru plots to wage a war against all men.

4.2
24
A Scandal in Paris

A Scandal in Paris

1946 · 1h 40m · Movie

Born in a French prison in 1775, François Eugène Vidocq becomes a professional thief and is later appointed chief of Parisian police.

6.6
25
Call Me Genius

Call Me Genius

1961 · 1h 45m · Movie

Tony Hancock gives up his day job to become an artist. He's a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics dislike his work. Nevertheless, he impresses a talented artist.

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26
Doomwatch

Doomwatch

1972 · 1h 32m · Movie

The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.

5.5
27
Warning Shot

Warning Shot

1967 · 1h 40m · Movie

During a stakeout, an L.A. cop kills a doctor who presumably pulled a gun but the coroner's inquest finds no gun, forcing the cop to look for it to clear his name.

6.7
28
King Richard and the Crusaders

King Richard and the Crusaders

1954 · 1h 54m · Movie

While leading the Third Crusade, King Richard the Lionheart (George Sanders) battles treachery in his own camp as well as the Saracens and their charismatic leader Emir Hderim Sultan Saladin (Sir Rex Harrison).

5.5
29
Good Times

Good Times

1967 · 1h 31m · Movie

Sonny and Cher spoof many Hollywood classic movie scenes.

4.5
30
Never Say Goodbye

Never Say Goodbye

1956 · 1h 36m · Movie

In 1945 Vienna, an American doctor marries an Austrian girl, who later disappears in the Soviet Control Zone during a visit there, forcing everyone to presume her dead.

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31
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

1965 · 2h 6m · Movie

A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of society.

5.7
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The Body Stealers

The Body Stealers

1969 · 1h 31m · Movie

In Britain, bodies of NATO paratroopers are being snatched during routine jumps by a mysterious red-beam of alien origin.

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33
Trouble in the Sky

Trouble in the Sky

1960 · 1h 32m · Movie

In Britain, at the dawn of jet-powered commercial aviation, an aircraft manufacturer tries to shift the blame from mechanical failure to pilot error when its newest jet airliner has a series of accidents.

6.5
34
The Seventh Sin

The Seventh Sin

1957 · 1h 34m · Movie

In post-WWII Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol has an affair with a married man. Her husband discovers it and presents her with a choice: travel with him to a remote mainland village or face the scandal of a very public divorce.

6.4
35
Paris After Dark

Paris After Dark

1943 · 1h 25m · Movie

Members of the French underground resistance, live their "normal" lives during the day, and fight the occupying Nazis in the war-torn Paris after dark. Some will end their lives fighting, and some will find purpose in life once ag...

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