George Sanders, a British actor, had roles in which of these two films directed by Alfred Hitchcock?
Two films directed by Alfred Hitchcock where George Sanders, a British actor, appears include the 1940 dramas "Foreign Correspondent" and "Rebecca". "Foreign Correspondent" is an American black-and-white spy thriller and involves an American reporter based in Britain who tries to expose enemy spies involved in a fictional continent-wide conspiracy in the prelude to WWII. "Rebecca" is an American romantic psychological thriller; it was Hitchcock's first American project.
In "Rebecca", Laurence Olivier plays the brooding, aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter and Joan Fontaine is the young woman who becomes his second wife. It is a gothic tale shot in black-and-white. Maxim de Winter's first wife Rebecca, who died before the events of the film, is never seen. Her reputation and recollections of her, however, are a constant presence in the lives of Maxim, his new wife, and their creepy housekeeper Mrs. Danvers.
George Sanders (July 1906, St. Petersburg, Russia—April 1972, Barcelona, Spain) was a Russian-born British actor who specialized in portraying elegant yet dissolute characters. His career spanned over 40 years, and he is often remembered for his heavy, upper-class English accent and smooth, baritone voice that led him to be cast as sophisticated but villainous characters. He is truly remembered for his clever roles as Jack Favell in "Rebecca" (1940) and Scott ffolliott in "Foreign Correspondent" (1940, a rare heroic part).
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