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Erskine Sanford

Acting Born Nov 19, 1885 Trinidad, Colorado, USA 24 credits

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!

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Known for

Film

Citizen Kane

as Herbert Carter
Film

The Best Years of Our Lives

as Bullard
Film

Spellbound

as Dr. Galt (uncredited)
Film

Letter from an Unknown Woman

as Porter
Film

The Lady from Shanghai

as Judge

Full filmography

  • Citizen Kane (1941) as Herbert Carter
  • The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) as Bullard
  • Spellbound (1945) as Dr. Galt (uncredited)
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) as Undertaker (uncredited)
  • Jane Eyre (1943) as Mr. Briggs (uncredited)
  • Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) as Porter
  • The Lady from Shanghai (1947) as Judge
  • Mr. Skeffington (1944) as Dr. Fawcette (uncredited)
  • The Stranger (1946) as Party Guest (uncredited)
  • Possessed (1947) as Dr. Max Sherman
  • The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) as Roger Bronson
  • Macbeth (1948) as Duncan
  • Impact (1949) as Dr. Henry Bender
  • Sierra (1950) as Judge Prentiss
  • Kidnapped (1948) as Rankeillor
  • Too Much Johnson (2013) as Frederick
  • Wake of the Red Witch (1948) as Dr. van Arken
  • Without Reservations (1946) as Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)
  • Angel on My Shoulder (1946) as Minister
  • Ministry of Fear (1944) as George Rennit
  • Crack-Up (1946) as Museum Director Barton
  • The Company She Keeps (1951) as Planetarium Guide (uncredited)
  • The Voice of the Turtle (1947) as Storekeeper
  • Night Unto Night (1949) as Dr. Gallen Altheim