George Sanders

George Henry Sanders, nado en San Petersburgo o 3 de xullo de 1906 e finado en Castelldefels (Barcelona o 25 de abril de 1972, foi un actor e músico británico.

 Traxectoria 
Nado no Imperio Ruso de pais ingleses, regresaron ao seu país tralo triunfo da Revolución Rusa. Tras graduarse traballou nunha axencia de publicidade, onda a secretaria e entón aspirante a actriz Greer Garson lle suxeriu que intentase ser actor. Debutou no cinema británico en 1929 e sete anos máis tarde participou no seu primeiro filme estadounidense.

O seu forte acento inglés levouno a participar en numerosos filmes nas décadas seguintes. En 1950 gañou o Oscar ao mellor actor secundario polo seu papel do crítico teatral Addison DeWitt en Todo sobre Eva.

Desde 1957 participou en series de televisión como The Man From U.N.C.L.E. ou Batman e puxo a voz a Shere Khan na produción de Disney The Jungle Book.

Tralo seu matrimonio con Magda Gabor (irmá máis vella da súa segunda esposa Zsa Zsa Gabor) comezou a beber e nos seguintes anos a súa saúde empeorou caendo na demencia. En 1972 alugou un cuarto nun hotel de Castelldefels onde foi atopado morto dous días despois, vítima dun ataque ao corazón provocado tras tomar cinco botes de Nembutal. O seu pasamento foi considerado un suicidio, xa que deixou unha nota que dicía:

 Filmografía 

 Strange Cargo (1929)
 Love, Life and Laughter (1934)
 Dishonour Bright]] (1936)
 Find the Lady (1936)
 Lloyd's of London (1936)
 Strange Cargo (1936)
 The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)
 Lancer Spy (1937)
 Love is News (1937)
 Slave Ship (1937)
 The Lady Escapes (1937)
 Four Men and a Prayer (1938)
 International Settlement (1938)
 Allegheny Uprising (1939)
 Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
 Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1939)
 Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)
 So This Is London (1939)
 The Outsider (1939)
 The Saint Strikes Back (1939)
 The Saint in London (1939)
 Bitter Sweet (1940)
 Foreign Correspondent (1940)
 Green Hell (1940)
 Rebecca (1940)
 The House of the Seven Gables (1940)
 The Saint Takes Over (1940)
 The Saint's Double Trouble (1940)
 A Date with the Falcon (1941)
 Man Hunt (1941)
 Rage in Heaven (1941)
 Sundown (1941)
 The Gay Falcon (1941)
 The Saint in Palm Springs (1941)
 The Son of Monte Cristo (1941)
 Her Cardboard Lover (1942)
 Quiet Please, Murder (1942)
 Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942)
 Tales of Manhattan (1942)
 The Moon and Sixpence (1942)
 The Black Swan (1942)
 The Falcon Takes Over (1942)
 The Falcon's Brother (1942)
 Appointment in Berlin (1943)
 Paris After Dark (1943)
 They Came to Blow Up America (1943)
 This Land Is Mine (1943)
 Action in Arabia (1944)
 Summer Storm (1944)
 The Lodger (1944)
 Hangover Square (1945)
 The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
 The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)
 A Scandal in Paris (1946)
 The Strange Woman (1946)
 Forever Amber (1947)
 Lured (1947)
 O fantasma e a señora Muir (1947)
 The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947)
 Blackjack (1949)
 Samson and Delilah (1949)
 The Fan (1949)
 Todo sobre Eva (1950)
 Jack, el Negro (1950)
 I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1951)
 The Light Touch (1951)
 Assignment-Paris (1952)
 Hold That Line (1952)
 Ivanhoe (1952)
 Call Me Madam (1953)
 Run for the Hills (1953)
 Heite querer sempre (1954)
 King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)
 Witness to Murder (1954)
 Jupiter's Darling (1955)
 Moonfleet (1955)
 Portrait for Murder (1955)
 The Big Tip Off (1955)
 The King's Thief (1955)
 The Scarlet Coat (1955)
 Death of a Scoundrel (1956)
 Never Say Goodbye (1956)
 That Certain Feeling (1956)
 While the City Sleeps (1956)
 The Seventh Sin (1957)
 From the Earth to the Moon (1958)
 Outcasts of the City (1958)
 The Whole Truth (1958)
 Solomon and Sheba (1959)
 That Kind of Woman (1959)
 A Touch of Larceny (1960)
 Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons (1960)
 Cone of Silence (1960)
 The Last Voyage (1960)
 Village of the Damned (1960)
 Five Golden Hours (1961)
 Gli Invasori (1961)
 Le Rendez-Vous (1961)
 The Rebel (1961)
 In Search of the Castaways (1962)
 Operation Snatch (1962)
 Cairo (1963)
 The Cracksman (1963)
 A Shot in the Dark (1964)
 Dark Purpose (1964)
 Last Plane to Baalbeck (1965)
 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965)
 The Billionaire (1965)
 The Golden Head (1965)
 The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
 Trunk to Cairo (1966)
 Good Times (1967)
 Rey de Africa (1967)
 Warning Shot] (1967)
 The Girl from Rio (1968)
 One Step to Hell (1969)
 The Best House In London (1969)
 The Body Stealers (1969)
 The Candy Man (1969)
 Thin Air (1969)
 The Night of the Assassins (1970)
 A carta do Kremlin (1970)
 Doomwatch (1972)
 Endless Night (1972)
 Psychomania (1972)

 Véxase tamén 

 Bibliografía 
 Aherne, Brian. A Dreadful Man: The Story of Hollywood's Most Original Cad, George Sanders. Nova York: Simon & Schuster, 1979. ISBN 0-671-24797-2.
 McNally, Peter. Bette Davis: The Performances that made her Great. Jefferson North Carolina: McFarland, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7864-3499-2.
 Niven, David. The Moon's A Balloon. Londres: Dell Publishing, 1983. ISBN 978-0-440-15806-6.
 Sanders, George. Memoirs of a Professional Cad: The Autobiography of George Sanders. Londres: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1960. ISBN 0-8108-2579-1.
 VanDerBeets, Richard. George Sanders: An Exhausted Life. Toronto, Ontario, Canadá: Madison Books, 1990. ISBN 0-8191-7806-3.

 Ligazóns externas 


Categoría:Actores do Reino Unido
Categoría:Nados en San Petersburgo
Categoría:Nados en 1906
Categoría:Finados en 1972
Categoría:Finados por sobredose