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name: "Tom Conway"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tom-conway"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "15 September 1904"
died: "22 April 1967"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 75
updated: "2026-09-17T06:08:40.109244+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Tom Conway

Actor. Born 15 September 1904 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]. Died 22 April 1967.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 15 September 1904, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
- **Died:** 22 April 1967
- **Active:** 1953–1961
- **Also known as:** Thomas Charles Sanders, Thomas Sanders
- **Works often with:** [Clyde Geronimi](https://film.one/person/clyde-geronimi.md), [Donald Halliday](https://film.one/person/donald-halliday.md), [Hamilton Luske](https://film.one/person/hamilton-luske.md), [Walt Disney](https://film.one/person/walt-disney.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1950s 68 (1), 1960s 82 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1288551, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0007218/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/48962

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*One Hundred and One Dalmatians*](https://film.one/film/one-hundred-and-one-dalmatians.md) (82), [*Peter Pan*](https://film.one/film/peter-pan-1953.md) (68)

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## Biography

Tom Conway (born Thomas Charles Sanders) was a British film, television and radio actor. He was born on 15 September 1904 in St Petersburg, Russia, and moved with his family to England at the outbreak of the Russian Revolution. He was educated in England and appeared in plays with the Manchester Repertory Company before performing on BBC Radio.

Conway is remembered for playing the detective The Falcon in ten films of the 1940s series, taking over the role from his younger brother George Sanders in The Falcon's Brother (1942). He appeared in several films produced by Val Lewton, including *Cat People* (1942), *I Walked with a Zombie* (1943) and *The Seventh Victim* (1943). He also provided the voice of the narrator in *Peter Pan* (1953) and voiced the Quizmaster and a Collie in *One Hundred and One Dalmatians* (1961).

His other credits include supporting roles in *Mrs. Miniver* (1942), *Waterloo Bridge* (1940) and episodes of *Perry Mason* and *Alfred Hitchcock Presents*. He worked in Hollywood from the early 1940s until the mid-1960s.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *One Hundred and One Dalmatians* (1961), Fi1m 82, as Quizmaster / Collie (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/one-hundred-and-one-dalmatians.md)
- *Peter Pan* (1953), Fi1m 68, as Narrator (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/peter-pan-1953.md)

## Also known for

- *Cat People* (1942), Dr. Louis Judd
- *I Walked with a Zombie* (1943), Paul Holland
- *Mrs. Miniver* (1942), Man (uncredited)
- *Alfred Hitchcock Presents* (1955), Max Collodi, Inspector, John Wellington (uncredited)
- *Waterloo Bridge* (1940), (voice) (uncredited)
- *The Seventh Victim* (1943), Dr. Louis Judd
- *Perry Mason* (1957), Guy Penrose
- *What a Way to Go!* (1964), Lord Kensington (uncredited)

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