Erskine Sanford
Acting
Born 1885-11-19
Trinidad, Colorado, USA
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!
Known For
Popular credits
Citizen Kane
Herbert Carter
Spellbound
Dr. Galt (uncredited)
The Best Years of Our Lives
Bullard
The Lady from Shanghai
Judge
The Stranger
Party Guest (uncredited)
The Magnificent Ambersons
Roger Bronson
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Porter
Ministry of Fear
George Rennit
Macbeth
Duncan
Jane Eyre
Mr. Briggs (uncredited)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Undertaker (uncredited)
Possessed
Dr. Max Sherman
Mr. Skeffington
Dr. Fawcette (uncredited)
Impact
Dr. Henry Bender
Wake of the Red Witch
Dr. van Arken
Angel on My Shoulder
Minister
Crack-Up
Museum Director Barton
Too Much Johnson
Frederick
Uncertain Glory
Mourning Becomes Electra
Josiah Borden