Erskine Sanford

Erskine Sanford

Known for

Acting

Born

November 19, 1885

Birthplace

Trinidad, Colorado, USA

Died

July 7, 1969 (aged 83)

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!

Best known work

Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane

1941

Spellbound

Spellbound

1945

The Best Years of Our Lives

The Best Years of Our Lives

1946

The Lady from Shanghai

The Lady from Shanghai

1947

The Stranger

The Stranger

1946

The Magnificent Ambersons

The Magnificent Ambersons

1942

Letter from an Unknown Woman

Letter from an Unknown Woman

1948

Ministry of Fear

Ministry of Fear

1944

Macbeth

Macbeth

1948

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

1943

Filmography

2013
Too Much Johnson
as Frederick (uncredited)
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
Letter from an Unknown Woman
as Porter
1948
You Were Meant for Me
as Frank Smith
1947
The Voice of the Turtle
as Storekeeper
1947
The Lady from Shanghai
as Judge
1947
Mourning Becomes Electra
as Josiah Borden
1947
Possessed
as Dr. Max Sherman
1946
The Best Years of Our Lives
as Bullard
1946
Angel on My Shoulder
as Minister
1946
Crack-Up
as Museum Director Barton
1946
The Stranger
as Party Guest (uncredited)
1946
Without Reservations
as Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)
1946
From This Day Forward
as Higgler
1945
Girls of the Big House
as Professor O'Neill
1945
Spellbound
as Dr. Galt (uncredited)
1945
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
as Undertaker (uncredited)
1944
Mr. Skeffington
as Dr. Fawcette (uncredited)