Portrait of Erskine Sanford

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!

Born: November 19, 1885

Place of Birth: Trinidad, Colorado, USA

Filmography

1951
The Company She Keeps

as Planetarium Guide (uncredited)

1950
Sierra

as Judge Prentiss

1949
Night Unto Night

as Dr. Gallen Altheim

1949
Impact

as Dr. Henry Bender

1948
Wake of the Red Witch

as Dr. van Arken

1948
Kidnapped

as Rankeillor

1948
Macbeth

as Duncan

1948
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

as Dr. Danson (uncredited)

1948
You Were Meant for Me

as Frank Smith

1947
1947
Mourning Becomes Electra

as Josiah Borden

1947
Possessed

as Dr. Max Sherman

1946
1946
Crack-Up

as Museum Director Barton

1946
The Stranger

as Party Guest (uncredited)

1946
Without Reservations

as Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)

1946
1945
Spellbound

as Dr. Galt (uncredited)

1945
Girls of the Big House

as Professor O'Neill

1945
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

as Undertaker (uncredited)

1944
Mr. Skeffington

as Dr. Fawcette (uncredited)

1944
Ministry of Fear

as George Rennit, private investigator

1943
Jane Eyre

as Mr. Briggs (uncredited)

1942
1941
Appointment for Love

as Hastings' Butler (uncredited)

1941
Citizen Kane

as Herbert Carter

1940
Pop Always Pays

as John Hayes

1934
Too Much Johnson

as Frederick