Erskine Sanford

Erskine Sanford

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

19/11/1885

Day of Death

07/07/1969
(84) years old

Place of Birth

Trinidad, Colorado, USA

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

Cast

2013

Too Much Johnson

as Frederick

1950

Sierra

as Judge Prentiss

1949

Night Unto Night

as Dr. Gallen Altheim

1949

Impact

as Dr. Henry Bender

1948

Wake of the Red Witch

as Dr. van Arken

1948

Kidnapped

as Rankeillor

1948

Macbeth

as Duncan

1948

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

as Dr. Danson (uncredited)

1948

You Were Meant for Me

as Frank Smith

1947

The Voice of the Turtle

as Storekeeper

1947

Mourning Becomes Electra

as Josiah Borden

1947

Possessed

as Dr. Sherman - Graham's physician at inqu...

1946

Angel on My Shoulder

as Minister

1946

Crack-Up

as Museum Director Barton

1946

The Stranger

as Party Guest (uncredited)

1946

Without Reservations

as Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)

1946

From This Day Forward

as Higgler

1945

Spellbound

as Dr. Galt (uncredited)

1945

Girls of the Big House

as Professor O'Neill

1945

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

as Undertaker (uncredited)

1944

Mr. Skeffington

as Dr. Fawcette (uncredited)

1944

Ministry of Fear

as George Rennit, private investigator

1943

Jane Eyre

as Mr. Briggs (uncredited)

1942

The Magnificent Ambersons

as Roger Bronson

1941

Appointment for Love

as Hastings' Butler (uncredited)

1941

Citizen Kane

as Herbert Carter

1940

Pop Always Pays

as John Hayes