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posted by wonder2wonderSTAFFMOD on July 3, 2017 at 6:59 PM
on his birthday, George Sanders (Born: July 3, 1906; Died: April 25, 1972).
George Sanders is known for his roles as Simon Templar (a.k.a. The Saint) in the movies "The Saint Strikes Back (1939)", "The Saint in London (1939)", "The Saint's Double Trouble (1940)", "The Saint Takes Over (1940)" and "The Saint in Palm Springs (1941)", and as Gay Laurence (a.k.a. The Falcon) in the movies "The Gay Falcon (1941)", "A Date with the Falcon (1942)", "The Falcon Takes Over (1942)" and "The Falcon's Brother (1942)".
Some other movies he appeared in are "Strange Cargo (1936)", "Find the Lady (1936)", "Slave Ship (1937)", "The Lady Escapes (1937)", "Lancer Spy(1937)", "International Settlement (1938)", "Four Men and a Prayer (1938)", "The Outsider (1939)", "So This Is London (1939)", "The House of the Seven Gables (1940)", "Rebecca (1940)", "Foreign Correspondent (1940)", "Bitter Sweet (1940)", "The Son of Monte Cristo (1940)", "Rage in Heaven (1941)", "Her Cardboard Lover (1942)", "The Moon and Sixpence (1942)", "Quiet Please, Murder (1942)", "The Lodger (1944)", "Action in Arabia (1944)", "Hangover Square (1945)", "The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)", "The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)", "The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947)", "Lured (1947)", "Samson and Delilah (1949)", "All About Eve (1950)", "I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1951)", "Ivanhoe (1952)", "Witness to Murder (1954)", "King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)", "While the City Sleeps (1956)", "Death of a Scoundrel (1956)", "The Whole Truth (1958)", "From the Earth to the Moon (1958)", "Solomon and Sheba (1959)", "Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons (1960)", "Village of the Damned (1960)", "A Shot in the Dark (1964)", "The Girl from Rio (1968)", "The Body Stealers (1969)", "Endless Night (1972)" and "Psychomania (a.k.a. The Death Wheelers) (1973)".
He played Mister Freeze (1966) on the ABC TV show "Batman (1966-1968)".
Some other TV shows he appeared on are "The George Sanders Mystery Theater", "Checkmate", "The Rogues", "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", "The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ", "Daniel Boone", "ITV Sunday Night Theatre" and "Mission: Impossible".
George Sanders won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Addison De Witt in the movie "All About Eve (1950)".
Reply by rudely_murray
on July 3, 2017 at 9:55 PM
One of my favourites, and up there with Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone and the like as one of the best voices in cinema history.
Funnily enough, I had never clicked until recently that the actor Tom Conway, best-known for such '40s chillers as The Seventh Victim and Cat People, was Sanders' older brother. I had always found them remarkably similar in vocals and mannerisms but only discovered this fact recently.
Reply by wonder2wonder
on July 4, 2017 at 10:53 PM
I read that Tom changed his last name after losing a toss to his brother. If not for that he would still be called Tom Sanders.
He became known as The Falcon in the movies, replacing his brother George Sanders, when the latter got bored with playing that role.
They both appeared together, playing the roles of brothers, in two movies: "The Falcon's Brother (1942)" and "Death of a Scoundrel (1956)". Zsa Zsa Gabor, George Sanders' ex-wife, was also in that last movie.