George Henry Sanders (3 July 1906 – 25 April 1972) was an 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 (1940), Scott ffolliott in
Foreign Correspondent (1940), Addison DeWitt in
All About Eve (1950),
King Richard the Lionheart in
King Richard and the Crusaders (1954),
Mr. Freeze in a two-parter episode of
Batman (1966), the voice of the malevolent man-hating tiger
Shere Khan in Disney's
The Jungle Book (1967), and as
Simon Templar, "The Saint", in five films made in the 1930s and 1940s.