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Erskine Sanford

Erskine Sanford

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