ACTOR

George Sanders

1906 - 1972

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George Henry Sanders (3 July 1906 – 25 April 1972) was a British actor and singer whose career spanned over 40 years. His heavy, upper-class English accent and smooth bass voice often led him to be cast as sophisticated but villainous characters. He is remembered for his roles as wicked Jack Favell in Rebecca (1940), Scott ffolliott in Foreign Correspondent (1940, a rare heroic part), The Saran of Gaza in Samson and Delilah (1949, the most popular film of the year), theater critic Addison DeWitt in All About Eve (1950, for which he won an Oscar), Sir Brian De Bois-Guilbert in Ivanhoe (1952), King Richard the Lionheart in King Richard and the Crusaders (1954), Mr. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Sanders has received more than 4,856,672 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). George Sanders is the 1,235th most popular actor (up from 1,268th in 2019), the 611th most popular biography from Russia (up from 633rd in 2019) and the 13th most popular Russian Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, George Sanders ranks 1,235 out of 13,578. Before him are Alex Borstein, Jim Parsons, Jennifer Beals, John Cusack, Chris Pratt, and Richard Bull. After him are Vera Farmiga, Beba Lončar, Mizzi Kaspar, Lance Reddick, Lena Headey, and Roddy McDowall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, George Sanders ranks 97. Before him are John Dickson Carr, Lillian Asplund, Janet Gaynor, John Carradine, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, and Horst Schumann. After him are Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse, Curtis LeMay, Junio Valerio Borghese, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, Heinrich Schwarz, and Clifford Odets. Among people deceased in 1972, George Sanders ranks 63. Before him are Natalie Clifford Barney, Hugo Steinhaus, Chen Yi, Aspasia Manos, Prescott Bush, and Jules Romains. After him are Edgar Snow, Clara Campoamor, Eugène Tisserant, Akim Tamiroff, Ettore Bastico, and Alejandra Pizarnik.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, George Sanders ranks 611 out of 3,761. Before him are John of Kronstadt (1829), Dersu Uzala (1849), Nikolay Voronov (1899), Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (1943), Valerian Kuybyshev (1888), and Sophia Perovskaya (1853). After him are Viktor Abakumov (1908), Boris Sheremetev (1652), Georgy Sviridov (1915), Iosif Gurko (1828), Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg (1838), and Hans Pfitzner (1869).

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Among ACTORS In Russia

Among actors born in Russia, George Sanders ranks 13. Before him are Olga Knipper (1868), Vyacheslav Tikhonov (1928), Yury Solomin (1935), Lyubov Orlova (1902), Yevgeny Leonov (1926), and Innokenty Smoktunovsky (1925). After him are Oleg Popov (1930), Inna Churikova (1943), Andrei Mironov (1941), Mikhail Ulyanov (1927), Alisa Freindlich (1934), and Anatoli Papanov (1922).

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