Erskine Sanford
Acting
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
1951The Company She Keeps
Planetarium Guide (uncredited)
1950Sierra
Judge Prentiss
1949Impact
Dr. Henry Bender
1949Night Unto Night
Dr. Gallen Altheim
1948Letter from an Unknown Woman
Porter
1948Macbeth
Duncan
1948Wake of the Red Witch
Dr. van Arken
1948Kidnapped
Rankeillor
1948Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Dr. Danson (uncredited)
1948You Were Meant for Me
Frank Smith
1947The Lady from Shanghai
Judge
1947Possessed
Dr. Max Sherman
1947The Voice of the Turtle
Storekeeper
1947Mourning Becomes Electra
Josiah Borden
1946Angel on My Shoulder
Minister
1946Crack-Up
Museum Director Barton
1946From This Day Forward
Higgler
1946Without Reservations
Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)
1946The Stranger
Party Guest (uncredited)
1946The Best Years of Our Lives
Bullard
1945Girls of the Big House
Professor O'Neill
1945A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Undertaker (uncredited)
1945Spellbound
Dr. Galt (uncredited)
1944Ministry of Fear
George Rennit