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Erskine Sanford

Erskine Sanford

Actor · 1885–1969 · Trinidad, Colorado, USA

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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!

Acted in 33

2010s

  1. 2013

    Too Much Johnson

    Frederick (uncredited)

1940s

  1. 1949

    Night Unto Night

    Dr. Gallen Altheim

  2. 1948

    Wake of the Red Witch

    Dr. van Arken

  3. Kidnapped

    Rankeillor

  4. Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

    Dr. Danson (uncredited)

  5. Letter from an Unknown Woman

    Porter

  6. You Were Meant for Me

    Frank Smith

  7. 1947

    The Voice of the Turtle

    Storekeeper

  8. Mourning Becomes Electra

    Josiah Borden

  9. 1946
  10. Crack-Up

    Museum Director Barton

  11. From This Day Forward

    Higgler

  12. 1945

    Girls of the Big House

    Professor O'Neill

  13. 1944
  14. Uncertain Glory

    Movie

  15. 1943
  16. 1942
  17. The Wife Takes a Flyer

    Jan

  18. 1941

    Appointment for Love

    Hastings' Butler (uncredited)

  19. 1940

    Pop Always Pays

    John Hayes