Erskine Sanford
Born in Trinidad, Colorado, USA — Nov 19 1885• Died Jul 07 1969
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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!
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Erskine Sanford's Credits
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The Lady from Shanghai
Judge
Citizen Kane
Herbert Carter
The Best Years of Our Lives
Bullard
Spellbound
Dr. Galt (uncredited)
Jane Eyre
Mr. Briggs (uncredited)
The Magnificent Ambersons
Roger Bronson
Mr. Skeffington
Dr. Fawcette (uncredited)
Macbeth
Duncan
Possessed
Dr. Max Sherman
The Stranger
Party Guest (uncredited)
Appointment for Love
Hastings' Butler (uncredited)
Crack-Up
Museum Director Barton
The Company She Keeps
Planetarium Guide (uncredited)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Undertaker (uncredited)
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Porter
Angel on My Shoulder
Minister
Impact
Dr. Henry Bender
Wake of the Red Witch
Dr. van Arken
Girls of the Big House
Professor O'Neill
From This Day Forward
Higgler
Ministry of Fear
George Rennit
Night Unto Night
Dr. Gallen Altheim
Without Reservations
Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)
Kidnapped
Rankeillor
The Wife Takes a Flyer
Jan
Uncertain Glory
Too Much Johnson
Frederick
Sierra
Judge Prentiss
Mourning Becomes Electra
Josiah Borden
Citizen Kane Trailer
himself/Herbert Carter
Pop Always Pays
John Hayes
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Dr. Danson (uncredited)
You Were Meant for Me
Frank Smith
The Voice of the Turtle
Storekeeper