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