Acting
Erskine Sanford
EN cinema · 33 credits
Born
19 November 1885
Died
7 July 1969 (aged 83)
Birthplace
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!
Known for
Filmography
Too Much Johnson
as Frederick (uncredited)
The Company She Keeps
as Planetarium Guide (uncredited)
Sierra
as Judge Prentiss
Impact
as Dr. Henry Bender
Night Unto Night
as Dr. Gallen Altheim
Macbeth
as Duncan
Wake of the Red Witch
as Dr. van Arken
Kidnapped
as Rankeillor
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
as Dr. Danson (uncredited)
You Were Meant for Me
as Frank Smith
Possessed
as Dr. Max Sherman
The Voice of the Turtle
as Storekeeper
Mourning Becomes Electra
as Josiah Borden
Angel on My Shoulder
as Minister
Crack-Up
as Museum Director Barton
From This Day Forward
as Higgler
Without Reservations
as Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)
The Stranger
as Party Guest (uncredited)
The Best Years of Our Lives
as Bullard
Girls of the Big House
as Professor O'Neill
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
as Undertaker (uncredited)
Spellbound
as Dr. Galt (uncredited)
Ministry of Fear
as George Rennit
Mr. Skeffington
as Dr. Fawcette (uncredited)
Jane Eyre
as Mr. Briggs (uncredited)
The Magnificent Ambersons
as Roger Bronson
Citizen Kane
as Herbert Carter
Appointment for Love
as Hastings' Butler (uncredited)
Pop Always Pays
as John Hayes