
Erskine Sanford
Acting
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!
Born: November 19, 1885 · Trinidad, Colorado, USA
Filmography (27)

The Company She Keeps
1951
Actor: Planetarium Guide …

Sierra
1950
Actor: Judge Prentiss

Night Unto Night
1949
Actor: Dr. Gallen Altheim

Impact
1949
Actor: Dr. Henry Bender

Wake of the Red Witch
1948
Actor: Dr. van Arken

Macbeth
1948
Actor: Duncan

Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948
Actor: Porter

The Voice of the Turtle
1947
Actor: Storekeeper

The Lady from Shanghai
1947
Actor: Judge

Mourning Becomes Electra
1947
Actor: Josiah Borden

Possessed
1947
Actor: Dr. Max Sherman

The Best Years of Our Lives
1946
Actor: Bullard

Angel on My Shoulder
1946
Actor: Minister

Crack-Up
1946
Actor: Museum Director Ba…

The Stranger
1946
Actor: Party Guest (uncre…

Without Reservations
1946
Actor: Timothy Helgelande…

From This Day Forward
1946
Actor: Higgler

Spellbound
1945
Actor: Dr. Galt (uncredit…

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945
Actor: Undertaker (uncred…

Mr. Skeffington
1944
Actor: Dr. Fawcette (uncr…

Ministry of Fear
1944
Actor: George Rennit

Uncertain Glory
1944
Actor

Jane Eyre
1943
Actor: Mr. Briggs (uncred…

The Magnificent Ambersons
1942
Actor: Roger Bronson

Appointment for Love
1941
Actor: Hastings' Butler (…

Citizen Kane
1941
Actor: Herbert Carter

Too Much Johnson
1938
Actor: Frederick
