- Possessed of a fine baritone singing voice, often raised at parties, Sanders released an album entitled "The George Sanders Touch: Songs for the Lovely Lady" (ABC-Paramount: 1958), today a much sought-after collector's item.
- Sanders told David Niven in 1937 that he intended to commit suicide when he got older. In 1972 he fulfilled his promise, leaving this note: "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck".
- After being convinced by a woman he had taken up with, Sanders sold his beloved house in Majorca, Spain. Soon afterward he checked into a hotel in Barcelona, and two days later his body was discovered next to five empty tubes of Nembutal.
- His first steady employment was in the tobacco industry, traveling through Brazil and Argentina. He was sacked from jobs twice, the first time after turning up at his boss's wedding in a drunken stupor, the second time after having fought a pistol duel over a paramour.
- Famously stated that he loathed giving interviews because he did not get paid for them; never gave autographs and rather enjoyed being perceived as "a rude and disagreeable person".
- Is referenced in The Kinks' 1972 song "Celluloid Heroes", with the lines "If you covered him in garbage, George Sanders would still have style".
- Once suggested to James Mason that they set up business together as Hollywood architects, as a sideline to their acting careers. The idea fell through when Mason insisted that, as a qualified architect, he would like to design the houses himself instead of simply putting his name on them, which is all Sanders wanted to do.
- His mother Margaret Sanders, his third wife Benita Hume, and his brother Tom Conway all passed away in 1967.
- His family fled Russia with the onset of the 1917 revolution.
- His ex-wives Zsa Zsa Gabor and Magda Gabor were sisters.
- To avoid confusion in their respective careers, George and his brother Tom Sanders flipped a coin to decide who would change his name. Tom lost, dialed a random number at a payphone, and upon getting an answer from Conway's fish market became known as Tom Conway.
- First got involved in acting when a secretary in the same advertising firm suggested it. That secretary was Greer Garson.
- Prior to Sanders' casting in The Jungle Book (1967), animator Milt Kahl drew several drawings of Shere Khan looking quite haughty. One of the individuals who looked at the drawings immediately remarked on how similar they were to Sanders.
- He and his ex-wife Zsa Zsa Gabor both played "Special Guest Villains" in Batman (1966).
- He was cremated after death and his ashes were scattered in the English Channel.
- He played the brother of his real-life elder brother Tom Conway in both The Falcon's Brother (1942) and Death of a Scoundrel (1956).
- Withdrew from the lead in the Broadway-bound musical version of "The Man Who Came to Dinner" called "Sherry!" (with Dolores Gray) during its Boston tryout in March 1967 when his wife Benita Hume was diagnosed with bone cancer. He was replaced by Clive Revill. The show was a quick failure on Broadway, and Hume passed away that November.
- Brother of actor Tom Conway. The two appeared together in The Falcon's Brother (1942), in which they portrayed--appropriately enough--brothers, and which was Sanders' final appearance as "The Falcon", a role he had grown tired of. In this entry, Sanders hands off the role to Conway, who took it up for nine subsequent films through 1946.
- During his college days, George enjoyed a reputation as a good swimmer and boxer, as well as beginning to cultivate his image as a bounder.
- Was one of two stars of the Pink Panther series to commit suicide. Capucine, who played Inspector Clouseau's wife in The Pink Panther (1963), killed herself in 1990.
- Had appeared in two Best Picture Academy Award winners: Rebecca (1940) and All About Eve (1950), and two other nominees: Foreign Correspondent (1940) and Ivanhoe (1952).
- Credited as the author of the mystery novel "Stranger at Home". The novel was actually ghostwritten by Leigh Brackett. The novel's dedication reads "To Leigh Brackett, whom I have never met".
- He originally pursued a business career but turned to acting appearing on stage in Noël Coward's 'Conversation Piece'.
- He committed suicide on April 25, 1972, less than three months from what would have been his 66th birthday on July 3.
- He was awarded two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures at 1636 Vine Street; and for Television at 7007 Hollywood Boulevard.
- His Hollywood career began at 20th Century-Fox (1936-38). From there he went to RKO Pictures (1939-41), back to 20th Century-Fox (1942-43 and 1947-50) and MGM (1954-55). He worked for most of the great directors, including Cecil B. DeMille, Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Douglas Sirk, and King Vidor.
- Featured in a crime novel, "Crime On My Hands", in which he solved a murder on a film set. The novel was ghostwritten by Falcon screenwriter Craig Rice. The Author's Dedication reads "To Craig Rice, without whom it would not have been possible.".
- He appeared with Wendy Barrie in five films: The Saint Strikes Back (1939), The Saint Takes Over (1940), The Gay Falcon (1941), The Saint in Palm Springs (1940) and A Date with the Falcon (1942).
- Had one younger sister: Margaret Sanders (born 1912).
- He was born in Russia where his father was a rope manufacturer and mother an English horticulturist and the protection of the British Embassy made him a British subject.
- Both he and his elder brother Tom Conway worked with Thomas Heathcote: Conway in Three Stops to Murder (1953) and The Last Man to Hang (1956) and Sanders in Village of the Damned (1960).
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