1906 - 1972
George Henry Sanders (3 July 1906 – 25 April 1972) was a British actor 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 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, 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 3,532,809 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). George Sanders is the 1,268th most popular actor (up from 1,333rd in 2019), the 615th most popular biography from Russia (up from 694th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Russian Actor.
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Among actors, George Sanders ranks 1,268 out of 10,030. Before him are Piper Laurie, Channing Tatum, Stockard Channing, Charles Durning, James Doohan, and Eva Dahlbeck. After him are Daniel Olbrychski, Peter Vaughan, Ken Takakura, Karen Black, Patricia Clarkson, and Teri Hatcher.
1932 - Present
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 1,262
1980 - Present
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 1,263
1944 - Present
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 1,264
1923 - 2012
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 1,265
1920 - 2005
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 1,266
1920 - 2008
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 1,267
1906 - 1972
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 1,268
1945 - Present
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 1,269
1923 - 2016
HPI: 66.05
Rank: 1,270
1931 - 2014
HPI: 66.05
Rank: 1,271
1939 - 2013
HPI: 66.05
Rank: 1,272
1959 - Present
HPI: 66.05
Rank: 1,273
1964 - Present
HPI: 66.04
Rank: 1,274
Among people born in 1906, George Sanders ranks 103. Before him are Louise Brooks, Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Luis Federico Leloir, Philippe Halsman, Denis de Rougemont, and Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark. After him are William Joyce, Dita Parlo, Shigemaru Takenokoshi, Junio Valerio Borghese, José Figueres Ferrer, and Jean Dieudonné. Among people deceased in 1972, George Sanders ranks 69. Before him are Prescott Bush, Matvei Zakharov, Viktor Barna, Frans Masereel, Frank Knight, and Clara Campoamor. After him are Ettore Bastico, Akim Tamiroff, Alejandra Pizarnik, Miriam Hopkins, Ernst von Salomon, and C. W. Ceram.
1906 - 1985
HPI: 66.68
Rank: 97
1906 - 1945
HPI: 66.66
Rank: 98
1906 - 1987
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 99
1906 - 1979
HPI: 66.52
Rank: 100
1906 - 1985
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 101
1906 - 1968
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 102
1906 - 1972
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 103
1906 - 1946
HPI: 66.04
Rank: 104
1906 - 1971
HPI: 66.01
Rank: 105
1906 - 1980
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 106
1906 - 1974
HPI: 65.68
Rank: 107
1906 - 1990
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 108
1906 - 1992
HPI: 65.51
Rank: 109
1895 - 1972
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 63
1898 - 1972
HPI: 66.42
Rank: 64
1911 - 1972
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 65
1889 - 1972
HPI: 66.31
Rank: 66
1885 - 1972
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 67
1888 - 1972
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 68
1906 - 1972
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 69
1876 - 1972
HPI: 65.97
Rank: 70
1899 - 1972
HPI: 65.60
Rank: 71
1936 - 1972
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 72
1902 - 1972
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 73
1902 - 1972
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 74
1915 - 1972
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 75
Among people born in Russia, George Sanders ranks 615 out of 2,688. Before him are Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky (1827), Aleksandr Dugin (1962), Yekaterina Budanova (1916), Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev (1892), Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1757), and Boris Sheremetev (1652). After him are Nicolas de Staël (1914), Nikolai Rezanov (1764), Markian Popov (1902), Maria Bochkareva (1889), Sergey Sazonov (1860), and Grigory Sokolov (1950).
1827 - 1914
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 609
1962 - Present
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 610
1916 - 1943
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 611
1892 - 1940
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 612
1757 - 1816
HPI: 66.08
Rank: 613
1652 - 1719
HPI: 66.08
Rank: 614
1906 - 1972
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 615
1914 - 1955
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 616
1764 - 1807
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 617
1902 - 1969
HPI: 66.05
Rank: 618
1889 - 1920
HPI: 66.04
Rank: 619
1860 - 1927
HPI: 66.01
Rank: 620
1950 - Present
HPI: 66.01
Rank: 621
Among actors born in Russia, George Sanders ranks 10. Before him are Lila Kedrova (1918), Olga Knipper (1868), Yuri Nikulin (1921), Sacha Guitry (1885), Vyacheslav Tikhonov (1928), and Oleg Popov (1930). After him are Innokenty Smoktunovsky (1925), Yevgeny Leonov (1926), Lyubov Orlova (1902), Andrei Mironov (1941), Oleg Tabakov (1935), and Tatiana Samoilova (1934).
1918 - 2000
HPI: 69.81
Rank: 4
1868 - 1959
HPI: 68.44
Rank: 5
1921 - 1997
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 6
1885 - 1957
HPI: 67.92
Rank: 7
1928 - 2009
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 8
1930 - 2016
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 9
1906 - 1972
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 10
1925 - 1994
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 11
1926 - 1994
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 12
1902 - 1975
HPI: 65.78
Rank: 13
1941 - 1987
HPI: 65.68
Rank: 14
1935 - 2018
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 15
1934 - 2014
HPI: 64.87
Rank: 16