Sanders, George

George Sanders was born in St Petersburg in 1906. He left Russia in 1917 with his family, who settled in England and had George educated at Bedales and Brighton College.

He made his British film debut in 1929, but it was in 1930's Hollywood that he honed his distinctive, charming-yet-dangerous screen persona - the quintessential cad. Sanders co-starred in Alfred Hitchcock's "Rebecca" and "Foreign Correspondent" (both 1940), and went on to win an Academy Award for his signature role, that of Addison DeWitt in "All About Eve" (1950). He continued to work in films up until the year of his deat...