TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of George Sanders.
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Birthdate: July 3, 1906
Death date: April 25, 1972
George Sanders
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1930s
2.4134
18
1940s
2.7351
39
1950s
2.3411
27
1960s
2.1347
24
1970s
1.5498
4
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.5551
2.5551
George Sanders Movie Rankings
1
3.8135Aspiring actress Eve Harrington maneuvers her way into the lives of Broadway's elite. The stars agree to show her the ropes believing she is an innocent and naive fan. Ultimately, Eve out wits them all and becomes the star she strived to be. ...more about All About Eve
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Supporting Actor
DVD from $4.86
(12 sellers)
2
3.6061A young woman is haunted by her new husband's dead wife, Rebecca. After a quick courtship and world wind romance, the new Mr. and Mrs. de Winter return to his estate. Once there Mrs. ...more about Rebecca
DVD from $294.95
(1 sellers)
3
3.1782When rich M. Ballon's spanish driver is found shot dead, Inspector Jacques Clouseau is the first official on the scene. All evidence suggests Maria Gambrelli, the maid, to be the murderer. ...more about Shot in the Dark
DVD from $6.59
(16 sellers)
4
3.1351
Johnny Jones is an action reporter on a New York newspaper. The editor appoints him European correspondent because he is fed up with the dry, reports he currently gets. ...more about Foreign Correspondent
DVD from $12.71
(13 sellers)
5
3.0014
When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Carribean of Buccaneers. ...more about Black Swan
DVD from $6.88
(12 sellers)
6
2.9339
In the small English village of Midwich everybody and everything falls into a deep, mysterious sleep for several hours in the middle of the day. ...more about Village of the Damned
DVD from $8.63
(11 sellers)
7
2.9118
A serial killer in London is murdering young women whom he meets through the personal columns of newspapers; he announces each of his murders to the police by sending them a cryptic poem. ...more about Lured
DVD from $19.95
(11 sellers)
8
2.9049
In 1900, strong-willed widow Lucy Muir goes to live in Gull Cottage by the British seaside, even though it appears to be haunted. Sure enough, that very night she meets the ghost of crusty former owner Captain Gregg...and refuses to be scared off. ...more about Ghost and Mrs. Muir
DVD from $5.53
(11 sellers)
9
2.8469
An actor, Paul Orman, is accidentally told that his new, custom made tail coat has been cursed and it will bring misfortune to all who wear it. As the 4 succeeding wearers of the coat discover, misfortune can often lead to truth. ...more about Tales of Manhattan
- Not Available on DVD
10
2.7640
In late Victorian London, Jack the Ripper has been killing and maiming actresses in the night. The Burtons are forced to take in a lodger due to financial hardship. He seems like a nice young man, but Mrs. ...more about Lodger
- Not Available on DVD
11
2.6886
Handsome, young, but morally corrupt Dorian Gray has his portrait made. As the years pass, he does not age, but evidence of his sins are apparent in his portrait, which grows uglier with each transgression. He keeps it safely hidden in the attic. ...more about Picture of Dorian Gray
- Not Available on DVD
12
2.6391
Blake is in love with an aristocratic woman whose husband seriously injures him. Blake's friendship with Lord Nelson provides the basis for Blake's part in the growth of Lloyd's insurance business following the Battle of Trafalgar. ...more about Lloyd's of London
- Not Available on DVD
13
2.6126
In the centre of this Walter Scott classic fiction inspired film the chivalrousness and the daring stand. Ivanhoe, the disowned knight join to the bravehearted and high-minded Robin Hood, the valiant of Forest Sherwood. ...more about Ivanhoe
DVD from $12.71
(9 sellers)
15
2.5533
George Harvey Bone is a composer in early 20th century London, who is under stress because he is writing a piano concerto. Due to this stress, he gets black outs when ever he hears dissonances. ...more about Hangover Square
- Not Available on DVD
17
2.5113
British hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gunsight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German agents and aided by a prostitute. ...more about Man Hunt
- Not Available on DVD
19
2.4829
The Grant children _know_ their shipwrecked father must still be alive. Didn't he send them a message in a bottle? They search, through earthquake, fire, flood, and cannibal tribe. ...more about In Search of the Castaways
DVD from $7.34
(12 sellers)
20
2.4003
Fabius (George Sanders) loves his beautiful but vulnerable city, Rome, and he also loves his beautiful but invulnerable fiancee, Amytis (Esther Williams). ...more about Jupiter's Darling
- Not Available on DVD
21
2.3577
Set just after the American civil war, businessman and inventor Victor Barbicane (Joseph Cotton) invents a new source of power called Power X. He plans to use it to power rockets, and to show it's potential he plans to send a rocket to the moon. ...more about From the Earth to the Moon
- Not Available on DVD
22
2.3521
Done in a similar style to the musical duo's TV show "The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour", this film is more a series of unconnected skits and parodies than a single running plot. When Sonny gets offered a role in a movie, he talks Cher into giving it a try. ...more about Good Times
DVD from $6.65
(7 sellers)
23
2.3364
Somewhere in the 18th century Great Britain, noble but penniless young boy John Mohune is sent by his dying mother to Moonfleet, to put himself under the protection of a certain Jeremy Fox. ...more about Moonfleet
- Not Available on DVD
24
2.3094
Two British agents are murdered by a mysterious Neonazi organization in West Berlin. The British Secret Service sends agent Quiller to investigate. ...more about Quiller Memorandum
DVD from $11.23
(10 sellers)
25
2.3035
The autobiography of elegant criminal, François Eugène Vidocq, from his birth in a French jail in 1775 to his appointment as chief of police of Paris where he intends to rob the city bank. ...more about Scandal in Paris
DVD from $14.99
(9 sellers)
26
2.2876
Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted to do. ...more about Moon and Sixpence
- Not Available on DVD
27
2.2602
In British colonial America, Captain Swanson's adherence to the rules results in Trader Callendar's selling to the Indians under cover of a government permit. Jim Smith won't sit still for that. ...more about Allegheny Uprising
- Not Available on DVD
28
2.2465
Colonel Loring Leigh, British Indian Army, appears to have issued an order that cost 90 lives. Cashiered, he returns home, tells his sons of a conspiracy by an arms syndicate to supply the rebels...then is found dead, an apparent suicide. ...more about Four Men and a Prayer
- Not Available on DVD
29
2.2130
Ed Renard is a G-Man investigating a huge Nazi spy ring in the United States. Contacts are discovered and arrested in the U.S., Latin America and Europe. ...more about Confessions of a Nazi Spy
- Not Available on DVD
30
2.1917
Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Benjamin working for him as a bonded servant. While he believes the lad was born out of wedlock and so cannot claim the inheritance, he is taking no chances. ...more about Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
- Not Available on DVD
31
2.1460
Albert Lory is a teacher at a school in German-occupied France. He is a coward, but he is drawn into the actions of the resistance. ...more about This Land is Mine
- Not Available on DVD
32
2.1186
Beautiful Jenny Hager finds she can always get what she wants from the men in the 1820's port of Bangor, Maine. Freed by his death from her drunkard father she soon manoeuvres herself into a position to marry a middle-aged monied local businessman. ...more about Strange Woman
DVD from $19.19
(5 sellers)
33
2.1112
Death of media magnat Amos Kyne is causing power struggle between his executives. In the meantime New York women become prey of a serial killer. ...more about While the City Sleeps
- Not Available on DVD
34
2.1058
Catherine and Alexander, wealthy and sophisticated, drive to Naples to dispose of a deceased uncle's villa. There's a coolness in their relationship and aspects of Naples add to the strain. ...more about Strangers
- Not Available on DVD
35
2.0959
Shortly before his death in ancient Israel King David has a vision from God telling him that his younger son Solomon should succeed him as king. His other son Adonijah is unhappy and vows to attain the throne. ...more about Solomon and Sheba
- Not Available on DVD
36
2.0616
A Gang of young people call themselves the Living Dead. They terrorise the population from their small town. After an agreement with the devil, if they kill themselves firmly believing in it, they will survive and gain eternal life. ...more about Psychomania
DVD from $4.59
(2 sellers)
38
2.0547
The Saint, newly back in London, is tipped by a friend in the Secret Service to a mystery involving one Bruno Lang, seemingly a Society card-sharp, but really involved in a plot to print and pass a million pounds worth of foreign currency. ...more about Saint in London
- Not Available on DVD
39
2.0456
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. ...more about House of the Seven Gables
- Not Available on DVD
43
1.9725
When a lookalike for The Saint smuggles diamonds into the U.S. from Egypt, the real Saint has his hands full proving his own innocence and getting the diamonds back. ...more about Saint's Double Trouble
- Not Available on DVD
44
1.8798
A ruthless fashion designer steps on everyone in her way in order to reach the top of her profession. Eventually she is forced to choose between her ambition and the man she loves. ...more about I Can Get It for You Wholesale
- Not Available on DVD
45
1.8447
In Palestine, 1000 B.C., the Jews are ruled by the Philistines Samson, budding jewish revolutionary, wants to marry Semadar, a Philistine, though it's her young sister, Delilah, who really wants Samson. ...more about Samson and Delilah
- Not Available on DVD
46
1.8173
In order to avoid an arranged marriage with a man she doesn't love, Sarah Millick runs off to Vienna with her music teacher, Carl Linden, whom she does love. They are married. In Vienna, they struggle to make a living by making music. ...more about Bitter Sweet
- Not Available on DVD
49
1.7442
Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans. ...more about Sundown
DVD from $5.16
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50
1.6424
Lady Mary's father is innocently accused of treason and is executed. It is the king's evil chancellor, the duke of Brompton, who has found a way of getting rich by accusing his enemies of treason, having them killed and then expropriating their fortune. ...more about King's Thief
- Not Available on DVD
52
1.6072
Amber St Clair means to get on in life and despite a poor background knows she has the assets to do it. ...more about Forever Amber
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53
1.5616
Bachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a small-town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters, glamorous hypochondriac Lettie and querulous widow Hester. ...more about Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
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55
1.4807
A British military paratrooper disappears in mid-air during a jump from an army plane. Two investigators, Patrick Allen and Neil Connery, try to unravel how this happened. ...more about Body Stealers
DVD from $5.99
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56
1.4506
Barbara Stanwyck sees a murder through her bedroom window, but no one will believe her. She is stalked by suave killer who first takes steps to convince police she is crazy, but she has ally in sympathetic policeman. ...more about Witness to Murder
- Not Available on DVD
57
1.4246
A disgraced policeman's daughter in San Francisco is busy acquiring a name for herself as a crime boss in her own right. ...more about Saint Strikes Back
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59
1.0921
A network of older spies from the West recruits a young intelligence officer with a photographic memory to accompany them on a mission inside Russia. ...more about Kremlin Letter
- Not Available on DVD
60
1.0397
Sam and Felix are art thieves. Sam has just stolen a picture from a museum in Italy, but told Felix that it was lost in a boat accident. He wants copies made to sell while he will sell the original and get paid both ways. ...more about Light Touch
- Not Available on DVD
63
Bold and attractive, Mike Alexander is an American who smuggles drugs across the Spanish Mediterranean. Ingrid Dekker is in love with him while the double-crossing Emily Birk tries to exploit him, which is also the case of Nikarescu, a shady trafficker. ...more about Black Jack
- Not Available on DVD
64
A man called Major is in Cairo after being released from a German Prison. He is there to proceed with his plan to steal the jewelry from the King Tutankhamen exhibit at the national gallery. This plan has been on hold since he was jailed. ...more about Cairo
- Not Available on DVD
66
A seasoned pilot is condemned for an error which causes a crash. The pilot later dies in a crash with similar circumstances and an examiner looks for scientific reasons for the crashes. ...more about Cone of Silence
- Not Available on DVD
67
A shorty, kind, very innocent and efficient locksmith is cheated by a burglar in order to rob a car and to open a safe strongbox. The police catches him and is sent to jail. ...more about Cracksman
- Not Available on DVD
68
When Clementi Suborin is found murdered, his secretary recounts to the police the story of his rise from Czech refugee to ultra-rich New Yorker. The tale of betrayal, womanising and fraud confirms that almost everyone who knew him wanted him dead. ...more about Death of a Scoundrel
- Not Available on DVD
70
One night in New York, beefy escaped convict Moose Malloy goes hunting for his ex-girlfriend Velma, leaving a trail of mayhem behind him. ...more about Falcon Takes Over
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75
Milly, Michael and Harold Stevenson are in Budapest with their father, a British inspector who is attending an international convention of criminal investigators. ...more about Golden Head
- Not Available on DVD
76
A group of adventurers head deep into a South American jungle in search of ancient Incan treasure. ...more about Green Hell
- Not Available on DVD
80
A couple who are always quarreling split up temporarily while she goes to France and teams up with a playboy who's being sued for breach of promise. ...more about Lady Escapes
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81
An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a national hero. A female German spy is assigned to check him out but falls in love with him. ...more about Lancer Spy
- Not Available on DVD
83
A documentary highlighting some of the oddest, strangest and more grotesque examples of human behavior. ...more about Mondo di notte numero 3
DVD from $12.79
(7 sellers)
84
A Japanese man claiming to be Mr Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egypt. ...more about Mr. Moto's Last Warning
DVD from $5.16
(11 sellers)
85
In present-day U.S., Dr. Michael Parker, a prominent surgeon, unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife whom he thought was dead. Victor, an artist and his "dead" wife's now boyfriend, berates Dr. Parker for "killing" her. ...more about Never Say Goodbye
- Not Available on DVD
87
English nurse Edith Cavell is matron in a small private hospital in German-occupied Brussels during WWI. When the son of a recently deceased patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, Cavell aids him to reach Holland and safety. ...more about Nurse Edith Cavell
- Not Available on DVD
93
Writer Georges Duroy (George Sanders) is one social-climbing S.O.B. who does most of his climbing over the warm (and cold) bodies of women. ...more about Private Affairs of Bel Ami
- Not Available on DVD
94
Old friends Ward and Phillip both become smitten with Phillip's mother's attractive young secretary Stella. But Stella marries Phillip and stands by him as his behavior becomes more and more erratic and his jealousy of Ward increases. ...more about Rage in Heaven
- Not Available on DVD
95
Anthony Hancock gives up his office job to become an abstract artist. He has a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics scorn his work. Nevertheless, he impresses an emerging very talented artist. ...more about Rebel
- Not Available on DVD
97
The Saint plays a "modern-day Robin Hood" in order to clear his friend, Henry Fernack, who was framed by mobsters. They run into a series of murders. ...more about Saint Takes Over
- Not Available on DVD
99
Captain Lovett ordered his first mate Thompson to get rid of his slave-trading crew and get a more respectable bunch for standard shipping, but when he brings his new bride Nancy aboard he finds the same old setup, including slave trade. ...more about Slave Ship
- Not Available on DVD
100
American (Churchill) in London dislikes England until his daughter (Lehmann) falls for the son (Granger) of the Lord (Drayton) with whom he wants to conclude a business deal. ...more about So This Is London
- Not Available on DVD
101
In 1865, General Gurko Lanen is dictator of "Lichtenburg" in the Balkans. Rightful ruler Zona hopes to get aid from Napoleon III of France. ...more about Son of Monte Cristo
DVD from $5.98
(7 sellers)
103
In this filmed Chekhov adaptation, Darnell plays the alluring peasant woman who lures cynical aristocrat Sanders away from his milquetoast fiancee, with tragic consequences. ...more about Summer Storm
- Not Available on DVD
105
In 1944, Kay and Jane travel on an overnight train from Miami to New York, accompanied by Harry. Kay is the mistress of "The Man", a rich industrialist, whom they are to meet so that they can help entertain an important general. ...more about That Kind of Woman
- Not Available on DVD
106
Because of his German parentage, government agent Carl Steelman (George Sanders) is assigned to by his chief, Craig (Ward Bond), to join the Nazi Bund, to obtain information on the underground activities of the group. ...more about They Came to Blow Up America
- Not Available on DVD
107
Philandering Commander Max Easton, now desk-bound and under-worked in the Admiralty, finds he suddenmly needs to make some money when he falls for American Virginia Killain. ...more about Touch of Larceny
- Not Available on DVD
109
A police sergeant kills a man who pulls a gun on him during a stakeout. The man's gun disappears, and the sergeant is charged with manslaughter. The sergeant works to clear his name and determine where the gun went and why the man was there at al