Erskine Sanford

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

Citizen Kane

The Best Years of Our Lives

Spellbound

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Jane Eyre

Letter from an Unknown Woman

The Lady from Shanghai

Mr. Skeffington

All Movies (33)

• Too Much Johnson2013 · as Frederick
• The Company She Keeps1951 · as Planetarium Guide (uncredited)
• Sierra1950 · as Judge Prentiss
• Night Unto Night1949 · as Dr. Gallen Altheim
• Impact1949 · as Dr. Henry Bender
• Wake of the Red Witch1948 · as Dr. van Arken
• Kidnapped1948 · as Rankeillor
• Macbeth1948 · as Duncan
• Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven1948 · as Dr. Danson (uncredited)
• Letter from an Unknown Woman1948 · as Porter
• You Were Meant for Me1948 · as Frank Smith
• The Voice of the Turtle1947 · as Storekeeper
• The Lady from Shanghai1947 · as Judge
• Mourning Becomes Electra1947 · as Josiah Borden
• Possessed1947 · as Dr. Max Sherman
• The Best Years of Our Lives1946 · as Bullard
• Angel on My Shoulder1946 · as Minister
• Crack-Up1946 · as Museum Director Barton
• The Stranger1946 · as Party Guest (uncredited)
• Without Reservations1946 · as Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)
• From This Day Forward1946 · as Higgler
• Spellbound1945 · as Dr. Galt (uncredited)
• Girls of the Big House1945 · as Professor O'Neill
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn1945 · as Undertaker (uncredited)
• Mr. Skeffington1944 · as Dr. Fawcette (uncredited)
• Ministry of Fear1944 · as George Rennit
• Uncertain Glory1944
• Jane Eyre1943 · as Mr. Briggs (uncredited)
• The Magnificent Ambersons1942 · as Roger Bronson
• The Wife Takes a Flyer1942 · as Jan
• Appointment for Love1941 · as Hastings' Butler (uncredited)
• Citizen Kane1941 · as Herbert Carter
• Pop Always Pays1940 · as John Hayes