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George Sanders

1906 - 1972

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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 bass voice often led him to be cast as sophisticated but villainous characters. He is remembered for his roles as wicked 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), 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). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Sanders is the 1,351st most popular actor (down from 1,234th in 2019), the 608th most popular biography from Russia (up from 611th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Russian Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, George Sanders ranks 1,351 out of 13,578. Before him are Emily Watson, Sean Hayes, Alun Armstrong, Run Run Shaw, David Strathairn, and Kurt Gerron. After him are Mandy Patinkin, Vahide Perçin, Dharmendra, Basil Rathbone, Rakhee Gulzar, and Melvyn Douglas.

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Among people born in 1906, George Sanders ranks 101. Before him are Piero Taruffi, Heinz Harmel, Junio Valerio Borghese, Curtis LeMay, Eleanor Hibbert, and Louise Brooks. After him are Humberto Delgado, Heinrich Schwarz, Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Pierre Fournier, Chandra Shekhar Azad, and Carol Reed. Among people deceased in 1972, George Sanders ranks 70. Before him are Aspasia Manos, Frans Masereel, Matvei Zakharov, Arnold Jackson, William Dieterle, and René Mayer. After him are George, Crown Prince of Serbia, Viktor Barna, Paul Goodman, Maximus V of Constantinople, Stephen Timoshenko, and Prescott Bush.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, George Sanders ranks 608 out of 3,761. Before him are Yuri Lotman (1922), Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow (1865), Mikhail Nesterov (1862), Igor Netto (1930), Pavel Tsitsianov (1754), and Alexander Godunov (1949). After him are Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark (1888), Vladimir Fock (1898), Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (1862), Rodion Shchedrin (1932), Veruschka von Lehndorff (1939), and Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev (1843).

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Among ACTORS In Russia

Among actors born in Russia, George Sanders ranks 11. Before him are Sacha Guitry (1885), Yuri Nikulin (1921), Vyacheslav Tikhonov (1928), Olga Knipper (1868), Yevgeny Leonov (1926), and Innokenty Smoktunovsky (1925). After him are Lyubov Orlova (1902), Alisa Freindlich (1934), Oleg Popov (1930), Andrei Mironov (1941), Tatiana Samoilova (1934), and Ludmila Savelyeva (1942).

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