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Erskine Sanford

Acting · Born November 19, 1885 · 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!

Movies with Erskine Sanford

• Citizen Kane (1941) — Herbert Carter
• The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) — Bullard
• The Lady from Shanghai (1947) — Judge
• Spellbound (1945) — Dr. Galt (uncredited)
• Jane Eyre (1943) — Mr. Briggs (uncredited)
• Wake of the Red Witch (1948) — Dr. van Arken
• Mr. Skeffington (1944) — Dr. Fawcette (uncredited)
• The Stranger (1946) — Party Guest (uncredited)
• The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) — Roger Bronson
• Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) — Porter
• Macbeth (1948) — Duncan
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) — Undertaker (uncredited)