Erskine Sanford

Acting

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 33

Movies (33)

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