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George Henry Sanders was a Russian-born English film and television actor, singer-songwriter, music composer, and author. His career as an actor spanned more than 40 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, for which he won an Academy Award, 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.