Erskine Sanford

Erskine Sanford

Birthday: 1885-11-19
Deathday: 1969-07-07
Place of birth: Trinidad, Colorado, USA

Biography

Erskine Sanford was an American actor on the stage, in radio and motion pictures. As a member of Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre company he appears in several of Welles's films, most notably as the bumbling, perspiring newspaper editor Herbert Carter in Citizen Kane!

Filmography

Citizen Kane

1941

As Herbert Carter

Letter from an Unknown Woman

1948

As Porter

The Magnificent Ambersons

1942

As Roger Bronson

The Lady from Shanghai

1947

As Judge

Possessed

1947

As Dr. Sherman - Graham's physician at inquest

Ministry of Fear

1944

As George Rennit, private investigator

Angel on My Shoulder

1946

As Minister

Crack-Up

1946

As Museum Director Barton

Macbeth

1948

As Duncan

Wake of the Red Witch

1948

As Dr. van Arken

Sierra

1950

As Judge Prentiss

Too Much Johnson

2013

As Frederick

From This Day Forward

1946

As Higgler

Kidnapped

1948

As Rankeillor

The Voice of the Turtle

1947

As Storekeeper

Jane Eyre

1943

As Mr. Briggs (uncredited)

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

1945

As Undertaker (uncredited)

Without Reservations

1946

As Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)

Girls of the Big House

1945

As Professor O'Neill

Mr. Skeffington

1944

As Dr. Fawcette (uncredited)

Pop Always Pays

1940

As John Hayes

Impact

1949

As Dr. Henry Bender

The Wife Takes a Flyer

1942

As Jan

The Stranger

1946

As Party Guest (uncredited)

You Were Meant for Me

1948

As Frank Smith

Night Unto Night

1949

As Dr. Gallen Altheim

The Best Years of Our Lives

1946

As Bullard

Spellbound

1945

As Dr. Galt (uncredited)

Appointment for Love

1941

As Hastings' Butler (uncredited)

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

1948

As Dr. Danson (uncredited)

Uncertain Glory

1944

As

Mourning Becomes Electra

1947

As Josiah Borden