Erskine Sanford

Personal Info

Birthday

November 19, 1885

Day of Death

1969-07-07

(83 years old)

Place of Birth

Trinidad, Colorado, USA

Erskine Sanford

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!

Known For

Citizen Kane

The Best Years of Our Lives

Spellbound

Letter from an Unknown Woman

Possessed

The Lady from Shanghai

The Stranger

Macbeth

Filmography

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