Acting

Erskine Sanford

Born 1885-11-19 · Trinidad, Colorado, USA

Died 1969-07-07

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!

Credits

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Too Much Johnson
as Frederick (uncredited)
2013
The Company She Keeps
as Planetarium Guide (uncredited)
1951
Sierra
as Judge Prentiss
1950
Night Unto Night
as Dr. Gallen Altheim
1949
Impact
as Dr. Henry Bender
1949
Wake of the Red Witch
as Dr. van Arken
1948
Kidnapped
as Rankeillor
1948
Macbeth
as Duncan
1948
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
as Dr. Danson (uncredited)
1948
Letter from an Unknown Woman
as Porter
1948
You Were Meant for Me
as Frank Smith
1948
The Voice of the Turtle
as Storekeeper
1947
The Lady from Shanghai
as Judge
1947
Mourning Becomes Electra
as Josiah Borden
1947
Possessed
as Dr. Max Sherman
1947
The Best Years of Our Lives
as Bullard
1946
Angel on My Shoulder
as Minister
1946
Crack-Up
as Museum Director Barton
1946
The Stranger
as Party Guest (uncredited)
1946
Without Reservations
as Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)
1946
From This Day Forward
as Higgler
1946
Girls of the Big House
as Professor O'Neill
1945
Spellbound
as Dr. Galt (uncredited)
1945
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
as Undertaker (uncredited)
1945
Mr. Skeffington
as Dr. Fawcette (uncredited)
1944
Ministry of Fear
as George Rennit
1944
Uncertain Glory
1944
Jane Eyre
as Mr. Briggs (uncredited)
1943
The Magnificent Ambersons
as Roger Bronson
1942
The Wife Takes a Flyer
as Jan
1942
Appointment for Love
as Hastings' Butler (uncredited)
1941
Citizen Kane
as Herbert Carter
1941
Pop Always Pays
as John Hayes
1940