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->''"If you covered him with garbage\\
George Sanders would still have style."''
-->-- '''Music/TheKinks''', "Celluloid Heroes"

George Henry Sanders (3 July 1906 – 25 April 1972) was a Russian-born British actor who portrayed the archetypal dastardly cad throughout the 1940s and '50s, winning an Oscar for his portrayal of the CausticCritic Addison De Witt in ''Film/AllAboutEve''. He is probably most familiar to younger audiences as the voice of Shere Khan in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967''. He also has the honor of playing the first live-action incarnation of Mr. Freeze in the Creator/AdamWest's take on ''Series/Batman1966'', and is arguably the most memorable of the three actors to take the role in the show - no small feat when your competition is Creator/OttoPreminger and Creator/EliWallach.

In his personal life, Sanders was an insecure, artistic man who disguised his true self through a cynically witty persona that he often performed in his films. He was married several times, notably to Creator/ZsaZsaGabor. He committed suicide at the age of 65, supposedly due to boredom.

He was the younger brother of actor Creator/TomConway, best-known for his appearances in ''Film/CatPeople'' and other Val Lewton movies. Their voices were extraordinarily similar. The brothers [[RealLifeRelative appeared in two films together]], ''Death of a Scoundrel'' and ''The Falcon's Brother''.

Sanders wrote a rare but hilariously witty book, ''Memoirs of a Professional Cad''.

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!!George Sanders films with pages on TV Tropes:

* ''Film/LoveIsNews'' (1937)
* ''Film/TheManWhoCouldWorkMiracles'' (1937)
* ''Film/{{Rebecca|1940}}'' (1940)
* ''Film/ForeignCorrespondent'' (1940)
* ''Film/RageInHeaven'' (1941)
* ''Film/{{The Black Swan|1942}}'' (1942)
* ''Film/ThisLandIsMine'' (1943)
* ''Film/{{The Picture of Dorian Gray|1945}}'' (1945)
* ''Film/TheGhostAndMrsMuir'' (1947)
* ''Film/ForeverAmber'' (1947)
* ''Film/{{Samson and Delilah|1949}}'' (1949)
* ''Film/AllAboutEve'' (1950)
* ''Film/{{Ivanhoe}}'' (1952)
* ''Film/JourneyToItaly'' (1954)
* ''Film/TheScarletCoat'' (1955)
* ''Film/WhileTheCitySleeps'' (1956)
* ''Film/TheLastVoyage'' (1960)
* ''Film/{{Village of the Damned|1960}}'' (1960)
* ''Film/TheRebel'' (1961)
* ''Film/AShotInTheDark'' (1964)
* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Jungle Book|1967}}'' (1967)
* ''Film/TheBestHouseInLondon'' (1969)

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!! George Sanders and his works provide examples of:
* ColdHam: One of the masters of this trope, using vocal inflections and facial expressions to dominate his scenes without ever raising his voice.
* TheComicallySerious: In most of his roles in comic films.
* MoneyDearBoy: [[invoked]] Supposedly the only reason he acted.
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