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