Erskine Sanford

Known for: Acting

Born: 1885-11-19 – 1969-07-07 (aged 83)

From: 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 (33)

MOVIE★ 5.4
Too Much Johnson
2013
as Frederick
MOVIE★ 6.2
The Company She Keeps
1951
as Planetarium Guide (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 5.4
Sierra
1950
as Judge Prentiss
MOVIE★ 5.4
Night Unto Night
1949
as Dr. Gallen Altheim
MOVIE★ 6.1
Impact
1949
as Dr. Henry Bender
MOVIE★ 5.7
Wake of the Red Witch
1948
as Dr. van Arken
MOVIE★ 6.7
Kidnapped
1948
as Rankeillor
MOVIE★ 7.3
Macbeth
1948
as Duncan
MOVIE★ 5.8
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
1948
as Dr. Danson (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 7.8
Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948
as Porter
MOVIE★ 6.3
You Were Meant for Me
1948
as Frank Smith
MOVIE★ 6.8
The Voice of the Turtle
1947
as Storekeeper
MOVIE★ 7.4
The Lady from Shanghai
1947
as Judge
MOVIE★ 6.1
Mourning Becomes Electra
1947
as Josiah Borden
MOVIE★ 6.9
Possessed
1947
as Dr. Max Sherman
MOVIE★ 7.7
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946
as Bullard
MOVIE★ 6.5
Angel on My Shoulder
1946
as Minister
MOVIE★ 5.8
Crack-Up
1946
as Museum Director Barton
MOVIE★ 7.2
The Stranger
1946
as Party Guest (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 6.2
Without Reservations
1946
as Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 5.4
From This Day Forward
1946
as Higgler
MOVIE★ 7.4
Spellbound
1945
as Dr. Galt (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 7.5
Girls of the Big House
1945
as Professor O'Neill
MOVIE★ 7.5
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945
as Undertaker (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 6.8
Mr. Skeffington
1944
as Dr. Fawcette (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 6.9
Ministry of Fear
1944
as George Rennit
MOVIE★ 6.7
Uncertain Glory
1944
MOVIE★ 6.9
Jane Eyre
1943
as Mr. Briggs (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 7.3
The Magnificent Ambersons
1942
as Roger Bronson
MOVIE★ 5.5
The Wife Takes a Flyer
1942
as Jan
MOVIE★ 5.8
Appointment for Love
1941
as Hastings' Butler (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 8.0
Citizen Kane
1941
as Herbert Carter
MOVIE★ 6.5
Pop Always Pays
1940
as John Hayes