page_title: George Sanders
section_title: Singing
hierarchical_section_title: George Sanders / Career / Singing
caption_attribution_description: Cropped screenshot of George Sanders from the trailer for the film The Picture of Dorian Gray.
context_page_description: George Henry Sanders was a British film and television actor, singer-songwriter, music composer, and author. His career as an actor spanned over forty years. His upper-class English accent and bass voice often led him to be cast as sophisticated but villainous characters. He is perhaps best known as Jack Favell in Rebecca, Scott ffolliott in Foreign Correspondent, Addison DeWitt in All About Eve, Sir Brian De Bois-Guilbert in Ivanhoe, King Richard the Lionheart in King Richard and the Crusaders, Mr. Freeze in a two-parter episode of Batman, the voice of the malevolent man-hating tiger Shere Khan in Disney's The Jungle Book, and as Simon Templar, The Saint, in five films made in the 1930s and 1940s.
context_section_description: In 1958 Sanders recorded an album called The George Sanders Touch: Songs for the Lovely Lady. The album, released by ABC-Paramount Records, featured lush string arrangements of romantic ballads, crooned by Sanders in a fit baritone/bass (spanning from low to middle C), including "Such is My Love", a song he had himself composed. After going to great lengths to get the role, he appeared in the Broadway cast of South Pacific, but was overwhelmed with anxiety over the singing and quickly dropped out. His singing voice can be heard in The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry,   Summer Storm and in Call Me Madam. He also signed on for the role of Sheridan Whiteside in the stage musical Sherry! (1967), based on Kaufman and Hart's play The Man Who Came to Dinner, but he found the stage production demanding and quit after his wife Benita Hume discovered that she had terminal bone cancer.
  During the production of The Jungle Book, Sanders refused to provide the singing voice for his character Shere Khan during the final recording of the song, "That's What Friends Are For". According to Richard Sherman, Bill Lee, a member of The Mellomen, was called in to substitute for Sanders.
caption: As Lord Henry Wotton in the trailer for The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
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