Erskine Sanford
Acting • Born 1885-11-19 – 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!
Filmography
34 credits
Citizen Kane
Movie • 1941
Herbert Carter
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Movie • 1948
Porter
The Magnificent Ambersons
Movie • 1942
Roger Bronson
The Lady from Shanghai
Movie • 1947
Judge
Possessed
Movie • 1947
Dr. Max Sherman
Ministry of Fear
Movie • 1944
George Rennit
Angel on My Shoulder
Movie • 1946
Minister
Crack-Up
Movie • 1946
Museum Director Barton
Macbeth
Movie • 1948
Duncan
Wake of the Red Witch
Movie • 1948
Dr. van Arken
Sierra
Movie • 1950
Judge Prentiss
From This Day Forward
Movie • 1946
Higgler
Uncertain Glory
Movie • 1944
Too Much Johnson
Movie • 1938
Frederick
The Voice of the Turtle
Movie • 1947
Storekeeper
Kidnapped
Movie • 1948
Rankeillor
Jane Eyre
Movie • 1943
Mr. Briggs (uncredited)
Girls of the Big House
Movie • 1945
Professor O'Neill
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Movie • 1948
Dr. Danson (uncredited)
Without Reservations
Movie • 1946
Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Movie • 1945
Undertaker (uncredited)
Mourning Becomes Electra
Movie • 1947
Josiah Borden
Mr. Skeffington
Movie • 1944
Dr. Fawcette (uncredited)
Pop Always Pays
Movie • 1940
John Hayes
Impact
Movie • 1949
Dr. Henry Bender
The Wife Takes a Flyer
Movie • 1942
Jan
The Stranger
Movie • 1946
Party Guest (uncredited)
You Were Meant for Me
Movie • 1948
Frank Smith
Night Unto Night
Movie • 1949
Dr. Gallen Altheim
The Best Years of Our Lives
Movie • 1946
Bullard
Spellbound
Movie • 1945
Dr. Galt (uncredited)
Appointment for Love
Movie • 1941
Hastings' Butler (uncredited)
The Company She Keeps
Movie • 1951
Planetarium Guide (uncredited)
Citizen Kane Trailer
Movie • 1940
himself/Herbert Carter