George Sanders
George Sanders was born in St. Petersburg, Russia on July 3rd, 1906 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 65, George Sanders biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Career
Sanders learned how to sing and appeared on stage in Ballyhoo, which only had a short run, but helped to establish him as an actor.
He began to perform on the British stage, and with Edna Best, he performed many times. Dennis King appeared in The Command Performance with him.
Sanders appeared on Broadway in a No.l Coward's Conversation Piece (1934), directed by Coward, which only ran for 55 performances.
20th Century Fox, which was looking for an actor to play a villain in its Hollywood-shot film Lloyd's of London (1936), has several of these British films in theater. Sanders was portrayed as Lord Everett Stacy, opposite Tyrone Power in one of his first films; Sanders' smooth, upper-class English accent, his swanky demeanor, and somewhat threatening air made him a target for American films for years to come. Lloyd's of London was a big success, and Fox brought Sanders under seven years of service in November 1936.
Sanders returned to Hollywood, where RKO wanted him to play the hero in a series of B-movies called The Saint. Louis Hayward, the Saint in New York (1938) had already been cast in the title role, but Sanders took over for The Saint Strikes Back (1939).
Sanders was loaned by United Artists to lead a film The Moon and Sixpence (1942), based on W. Somerset Maugham's book The Moon and Sixpence (1942).
Fox suspended him in July 1942 for refusing to lead In The Undying Monster (1942). "I like to be seen in pictures that at least seem to be marginally useful." They suspended him again in September for refusing a "unsympathetic role" in The Immortal Sergeant (he was replaced by Morton Lowry). Fox and Sanders came to terms in November, with the studio giving him a raise in pay and the lead in a film titled School for Saboteurs, which was titled They Came to Blow Up America.
RKO called him back for This Land Is Mine (1943). Nine Lives, a unique book about him, has been purchased, but it doesn't appear to have been made. In Berlin (1943), he was sent to Columbia for Appointment.
Fox revealed in February 1943 that it was directing three film projects for Sanders: The Porcelain Lady, a murder mystery, as well as biographical sketches of the Earl of Suffolk and Bethune. Fox initially expected him to star as the detective in Laura (1944) alongside Laird Cregar, but neither of them were cast in the final film. In 1951, George Sanders portrayed King Charles II in Fox's lavish production of the scandalous historical bodice ripper, Forever Amber.
Sanders began a three-film deal with RKO, beginning with Action in Arabia (1944).
Sanders received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work as Addison DeWitt's acerbic, cold-blooded theatre critic (1950).
In 1950, he was a leading man in Black Jack (1950), but he was back to supporting/villain roles in I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1951). He signed a three-picture contract with MGM for which he appeared in The Light Touch (1951) and Ivanhoe (1952), as Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert and dying in a duel with Robert Taylor after professing his admiration for Jewish maiden Rebecca, played by Elizabeth Taylor. It was a huge success.
In 1964, Sanders went to Italy to appear in the film Journey to Italy opposite Ingrid Bergman. He made several films for MGM including Jupiter's Darling (1955), Moonfleet (1955), and The King's Thief (1955), as well as Charles II.
He was first introduced in 1955 as hosting and occasionally appearing in The Ringmaster, a television show about the circus.
In Death of a Scoundrel (1956) and the television series The George Sanders Mystery Theater (1957), Sanders was the leading actor.
Power on Solomon and Sheba (1959) was his last film on the island of Sheba (1959); Power was lost during filming and was replaced by Yul Brynner.
Sanders was top-billed in Cairo (1963), then appeared in The Cracksman (1963), Dark Purpose (1964), and The Golden Head (1964). In the Pink Panther sequel A Shot in the Dark (1964), Peter Sellers and Sanders appeared together. In the BBC radio comedy series The Goon Show (1951-60), Sanders had earlier inspired Hercules Grytpype-Thynne.
In 1966, Sanders declared bankruptcy due to some poor investments.
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, he had a supporting role. He announced in 1969 that he was out of show business.
Two ghostwritten crime novels were published under his name in order to cash in on his fame at the time of his wartime film series. Crime on My Hands (1944), written in the first person and mentioning his Saint and Falcon films, was the first of the series.
During the recording of The Jungle Book, Sanders was unable to provide the singing voice for his character Shere Khan during the song's last recording, "That's What Friends Are For." Bill Lee, a Mellomen's member, was called in to substitute Sanders for Sanders, according to Richard Sherman.