Biography

Byron Sanders was born on September 24, 1925 in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. He was an actor, known for The Doctors (1963), Trick Baby (1972) and The Edge of Night (1956). He died on November 12, 2001 in New York City, New York, USA.

After retiring from daytime soaps, Sanders became a leading tennis instructor at the Midtown Tennis Club on Eighth Avenue in New York City.

In 1954 Salvador Dali chose Mr. Sanders to model for "The Crucifixion," a large oil painting now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He sat for Dali about 12 hours and earned $25 an hour, he told The New York Times in an interview in 1992.

The model for the painting by Salvador Dalí, "Crucifixion".