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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, baritone 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 4,551,253 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). George Sanders is the 1,270th most popular actor (down from 1,268th in 2019), the 634th most popular biography from Russia (down from 613th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Russian Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, George Sanders ranks 1,270 out of 9,996. Before him are Hibari Misora, Lyubov Orlova, Anny Ondra, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Chris Sarandon, and Adel Emam. After him are Pat Hingle, Catherine Spaak, Pietro Germi, Erdoğan Atalay, Jessica Biel, and Machiko Kyō.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, George Sanders ranks 102. Before him are Edmond Debeaumarché, Curtis LeMay, Phạm Văn Đồng, Philippe Halsman, Jack Churchill, and Berthold, Margrave of Baden. After him are José Figueres Ferrer, Junio Valerio Borghese, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, William Joyce, Humberto Delgado, and Dita Parlo. Among people deceased in 1972, George Sanders ranks 63. Before him are Stephen Timoshenko, Lester B. Pearson, Watchman Nee, Prescott Bush, Jules Romains, and C. Rajagopalachari. After him are Chen Yi, William Dieterle, Alejandra Pizarnik, Viktor Barna, Ettore Bastico, and Nikolay Krylov.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, George Sanders ranks 634 out of 3,262. Before him are Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (1943), Mikhail Mil (1909), Konstantin Melnikov (1890), Dersu Uzala (1849), Konstantin Ushinsky (1823), and Lyubov Orlova (1902). After him are Fedor Tokarev (1871), Iosif Gurko (1828), Nikolai Krylenko (1885), Boris Sheremetev (1652), Anna Vyrubova (1884), and Nikolai Ge (1831).

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Among ACTORS In Russia

Among actors born in Russia, George Sanders ranks 13. Before him are Olga Knipper (1868), Sacha Guitry (1885), Vyacheslav Tikhonov (1928), Yevgeny Leonov (1926), Andrei Mironov (1941), and Lyubov Orlova (1902). After him are Innokenty Smoktunovsky (1925), Tatiana Samoilova (1934), Oleg Popov (1930), Mikhail Ulyanov (1927), Alisa Freindlich (1934), and Anatoli Papanov (1922).

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