Erskine Sanford

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1885-11-19 (84 years old)

Deathday

1969-07-07

Place of Birth

Trinidad, Colorado, USA

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!

Acting

1941

Citizen Kane

as Herbert Carter

1942

1947

Possessed

as Dr. Sherman - Graham's physician at inquest

1944

Ministry of Fear

as George Rennit, private investigator

1946

1946

Crack-Up

as Museum Director Barton

1948

Macbeth

as Duncan

1948

Wake of the Red Witch

as Dr. van Arken

1950

Sierra

as Judge Prentiss

1946

2013

Too Much Johnson

as Frederick

1947

1948

Kidnapped

as Rankeillor

1943

Jane Eyre

as Mr. Briggs (uncredited)

1945

Girls of the Big House

as Professor O'Neill

1948

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

as Dr. Danson (uncredited)

1946

Without Reservations

as Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)

1945

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

as Undertaker (uncredited)

1947

Mourning Becomes Electra

as Josiah Borden

1944

Mr. Skeffington

as Dr. Fawcette (uncredited)

1940

Pop Always Pays

as John Hayes

1949

Impact

as Dr. Henry Bender

1946

The Stranger

as Party Guest (uncredited)

1948

You Were Meant for Me

as Frank Smith

1949

Night Unto Night

as Dr. Gallen Altheim

1945

Spellbound

as Dr. Galt (uncredited)

1941

Appointment for Love

as Hastings' Butler (uncredited)

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