Acting · Trinidad, Colorado, USA · Born November 19, 1885
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!
MovieToo Much Johnson
2013
as Frederick
MovieThe Company She Keeps
1951
as Planetarium Guide (uncredited)
MovieSierra
1950
as Judge Prentiss
MovieNight Unto Night
1949
as Dr. Gallen Altheim
MovieImpact
1949
as Dr. Henry Bender
MovieWake of the Red Witch
1948
as Dr. van Arken
MovieKidnapped
1948
as Rankeillor
MovieMacbeth
1948
as Duncan
MovieTexas, Brooklyn & Heaven
1948
as Dr. Danson (uncredited)
MovieLetter from an Unknown Woman
1948
as Porter
MovieYou Were Meant for Me
1948
as Frank Smith
MovieThe Voice of the Turtle
1947
as Storekeeper
MovieThe Lady from Shanghai
1947
as Judge
MovieMourning Becomes Electra
1947
as Josiah Borden
MoviePossessed
1947
as Dr. Max Sherman
MovieThe Best Years of Our Lives
1946
as Bullard
MovieAngel on My Shoulder
1946
as Minister
MovieCrack-Up
1946
as Museum Director Barton
MovieThe Stranger
1946
as Party Guest (uncredited)
MovieWithout Reservations
1946
as Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)
MovieFrom This Day Forward
1946
as Higgler
MovieSpellbound
1945
as Dr. Galt (uncredited)
MovieGirls of the Big House
1945
as Professor O'Neill
MovieA Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945
as Undertaker (uncredited)
MovieMr. Skeffington
1944
as Dr. Fawcette (uncredited)
MovieMinistry of Fear
1944
as George Rennit
MovieUncertain Glory
1944
MovieJane Eyre
1943
as Mr. Briggs (uncredited)
MovieThe Magnificent Ambersons
1942
as Roger Bronson
MovieThe Wife Takes a Flyer
1942
as Jan
MovieAppointment for Love
1941
as Hastings' Butler (uncredited)
MovieCitizen Kane
1941
as Herbert Carter
MoviePop Always Pays
1940
as John Hayes
