Erskine Sanford

Acting

Born: 1885-11-19 in 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!

Acting

Citizen Kane

Herbert Carter

Letter from an Unknown Woman

Porter

The Magnificent Ambersons

Roger Bronson

The Lady from Shanghai

Judge

Possessed

Dr. Max Sherman

Ministry of Fear

George Rennit

Angel on My Shoulder

Minister

Crack-Up

Museum Director Barton

Macbeth

Duncan

Wake of the Red Witch

Dr. van Arken

Sierra

Judge Prentiss

From This Day Forward

Higgler

Uncertain Glory

Too Much Johnson

Frederick

The Voice of the Turtle

Storekeeper

Kidnapped

Rankeillor

Jane Eyre

Mr. Briggs (uncredited)

Girls of the Big House

Professor O'Neill

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

Dr. Danson (uncredited)

Without Reservations

Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Undertaker (uncredited)

Mourning Becomes Electra

Josiah Borden

Mr. Skeffington

Dr. Fawcette (uncredited)

Pop Always Pays

John Hayes

Impact

Dr. Henry Bender

The Wife Takes a Flyer

Jan

The Stranger

Party Guest (uncredited)

You Were Meant for Me

Frank Smith

Night Unto Night

Dr. Gallen Altheim

The Best Years of Our Lives

Bullard

Spellbound

Dr. Galt (uncredited)

Appointment for Love

Hastings' Butler (uncredited)

The Company She Keeps

Planetarium Guide (uncredited)

Citizen Kane Trailer

himself/Herbert Carter