Erskine Sanford

Acting

Born November 19, 1885, Trinidad, Colorado, USA

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

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