FrameThrower · Actors · George Sanders
George Sanders
3 films · 136 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1950–1960
Born 3 July 1906 · Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia] · died 25 April 1972
George Henry Sanders was a British film and television actor, singer-songwriter, music composer, and author. His career as an actor spanned over forty years. His heavy upper-class English accent and smooth 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, 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.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 136 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1950–1960
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor1951
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 136 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work George takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 52% of their frames are day, 44% low key — the look of the work George takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 136 frames from George Sanders's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.