
Erskine Sanford
Acting
Born: 1885-11-19 · Trinidad, Colorado, USA
Died: 1969-07-07
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!
🎬 Movies (30)

Too Much Johnson
2013
Frederick

The Company She Keeps
1951
Planetarium Guide (uncredited)

Sierra
1950
Judge Prentiss

Impact
1949
Dr. Henry Bender

Night Unto Night
1949
Dr. Gallen Altheim

Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948
Porter

Macbeth
1948
Duncan

Wake of the Red Witch
1948
Dr. van Arken

Kidnapped
1948
Rankeillor

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
1948
Dr. Danson (uncredited)

You Were Meant for Me
1948
Frank Smith

The Lady from Shanghai
1947
Judge

Possessed
1947
Dr. Max Sherman

The Voice of the Turtle
1947
Storekeeper

Mourning Becomes Electra
1947
Josiah Borden

Angel on My Shoulder
1946
Minister

Crack-Up
1946
Museum Director Barton

From This Day Forward
1946
Higgler

Without Reservations
1946
Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)

The Stranger
1946
Party Guest (uncredited)

The Best Years of Our Lives
1946
Bullard

Girls of the Big House
1945
Professor O'Neill

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945
Undertaker (uncredited)

Spellbound
1945
Dr. Galt (uncredited)

Ministry of Fear
1944
George Rennit

Uncertain Glory
1944

Mr. Skeffington
1944
Dr. Fawcette (uncredited)

Jane Eyre
1943
Mr. Briggs (uncredited)

The Magnificent Ambersons
1942
Roger Bronson

The Wife Takes a Flyer
1942
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