George Sanders (1) (1906–1972)
Autore di Memoirs of a Professional Cad
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Opere di George Sanders
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Moon and Sixpence [1942 film] 5 copie
The Rebel [1961 film] — Actor — 2 copie
The Son of Monte Cristo / Captain Kidd — Actor — 2 copie
The Saint Strikes Back — Actor — 1 copia
Never Say Goodbye [1956 film] 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Sanders, George Henry
- Data di nascita
- 1906-07-03
- Data di morte
- 1972-04-25
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- St. Petersburg, Russia
- Luogo di morte
- Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain
- Istruzione
- Manchester Technical College
Bedales School - Attività lavorative
- actor
autobiographer - Relazioni
- Hume, Benita (wife)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Academy Award (Best Supporting Actor, 1950)
- Breve biografia
- George Sanders was born to English parents working in St. Petersburg, Russia, and had a privileged and cultured childhood. Following the Bolshevik Revolution, the family returned to England. Sanders attended the Bedales School, Brighton College, and Manchester Technical College. While working as an advertising copywriter, he decided to try show business. He made his stage debut in 1932, and had his first film role in 1934. His USA debut was as Lord Everett Stacy in Lloyd's of London (1936). With his upper-class baritone voice and suave, aristocratic manner, he was equally successful as villains, knights, and charmers in a career lasting 40 years. In the early 1940s, he made a number of movies as Simon Templar, "The Saint," and the dapper detective Gay Lawrence, "The Falcon." He also played nobility and royalty, such as Charles II in Forever Amber (1947), and Biblical characters such as Saran of Gaza in Samson and Delilah (1949). In 1950, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor as theater critic Addison De Witt in All About Eve (1950). He hosted a TV series, The George Sanders Mystery Theater, in 1957. In 1960, he published his autobiography, Memoirs of a Professional Cad. He was found dead of a drug overdose at age 65, having left a suicide note.
Please note that the two novels published as by Sanders, Crime on my hands and Stranger at home, were ghostwritten by Craig Rice and Leigh Brackett respectively.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 3
- Opere correlate
- 54
- Utenti
- 125
- Popolarità
- #160,151
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 7
- ISBN
- 28
- Lingue
- 3
The murder mystery itself is well done, and nothing to sneeze at. Sanders, as himself, is finally getting a break from playing The Falcon and The Saint films by making a Western. Someone is shot during a scene, despite all the guns supposedly being loaded with blanks. When it’s quickly discovered it may have been Sanders’ gun that did the killing, he removes the evidence. He’s suspected anyway, yet can’t reveal what he’s done because it will only make him look more guilty. So Sanders must use everything he’s learned playing The Falcon and The Saint in order to find the real killer.
What transpires is a delicious mystery with a likable protagonist in the “real” George Sanders — just as you remember him from the movies. The supporting cast of personal assistants, actors, directors, producers and other movie-related people, and Sanders’ interaction with them as he seeks to ferret out a killer among them, make for an entertaining murder mystery. A missing piece of film comes into play for a while, and there are people attempting to cover for other people, even confessing at one point. There is tons of atmosphere in this humorous — yet slightly deadly — mystery; Sanders himself has more than one close call, and a couple more murders occur before our suave hero can figure it all out.
There is a completely different listing for Crime On My Hands under Craig Rice's name which is the same book, and it may eventually be merged with these editions. Rice and Sanders could easily have mailed this in way back when, but they did anything but, making it a breezy delight to read. Great fun!… (altro)