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Erskine Sanford

Nov 19, 1885 (138 years old) in Trinidad, Colorado, USA

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

Citizen Kane

Spellbound

The Best Years of Our Lives

The Stranger

The Lady from Shanghai

Credits

2013 · Too Much Johnson as Frederick
1950 · Sierra as Judge Prentiss
1949 · Night Unto Night as Dr. Gallen Altheim
1949 · Impact as Dr. Henry Bender
1948 · Wake of the Red Witch as Dr. van Arken
1948 · Kidnapped as Rankeillor
1948 · Macbeth as Duncan
1948 · Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven as Dr. Danson (uncredited)
1948 · Letter from an Unknown Woman as Porter
1948 · You Were Meant for Me as Frank Smith
1947 · The Voice of the Turtle as Storekeeper
1947 · The Lady from Shanghai as Judge
1947 · Mourning Becomes Electra as Josiah Borden
1947 · Possessed as Dr. Sherman - Graham's physician at inquest
1946 · The Best Years of Our Lives as Bullard
1946 · Angel on My Shoulder as Minister
1946 · Crack-Up as Museum Director Barton
1946 · The Stranger as Party Guest (uncredited)
1946 · Without Reservations as Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)
1946 · From This Day Forward as Higgler
1945 · Spellbound as Dr. Galt (uncredited)
1945 · Girls of the Big House as Professor O'Neill
1945 · A Tree Grows in Brooklyn as Undertaker (uncredited)
1944 · Mr. Skeffington as Dr. Fawcette (uncredited)
1944 · Ministry of Fear as George Rennit, private investigator
1944 · Uncertain Glory as
1943 · Jane Eyre as Mr. Briggs (uncredited)
1942 · The Magnificent Ambersons as Roger Bronson
1942 · The Wife Takes a Flyer as Jan
1941 · Appointment for Love as Hastings' Butler (uncredited)
1941 · Citizen Kane as Herbert Carter
1940 · Pop Always Pays as John Hayes