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Erskine Sanford

Acting · 1885–1969 · 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

Filmography

2013Too Much JohnsonFrederick
1951The Company She KeepsPlanetarium Guide (uncredited)
1950SierraJudge Prentiss
1949Night Unto NightDr. Gallen Altheim
1949ImpactDr. Henry Bender
1948Wake of the Red WitchDr. van Arken
1948KidnappedRankeillor
1948MacbethDuncan
1948Texas, Brooklyn & HeavenDr. Danson (uncredited)
1948Letter from an Unknown WomanPorter
1948You Were Meant for MeFrank Smith
1947The Voice of the TurtleStorekeeper
1947The Lady from ShanghaiJudge
1947Mourning Becomes ElectraJosiah Borden
1947PossessedDr. Max Sherman
1946The Best Years of Our LivesBullard
1946Angel on My ShoulderMinister
1946Crack-UpMuseum Director Barton
1946The StrangerParty Guest (uncredited)
1946Without ReservationsTimothy Helgelander (uncredited)
1946From This Day ForwardHiggler
1945SpellboundDr. Galt (uncredited)
1945Girls of the Big HouseProfessor O'Neill
1945A Tree Grows in BrooklynUndertaker (uncredited)
1944Mr. SkeffingtonDr. Fawcette (uncredited)
1944Ministry of FearGeorge Rennit
1944Uncertain Glory
1943Jane EyreMr. Briggs (uncredited)
1942The Magnificent AmbersonsRoger Bronson
1942The Wife Takes a FlyerJan
1941Appointment for LoveHastings' Butler (uncredited)
1941Citizen KaneHerbert Carter
1940Pop Always PaysJohn Hayes

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