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!
Filmography
Cast Credits
Too Much Johnson
Character: Frederick
MOVIE • 2013
The Company She Keeps
Character: Planetarium Guide (uncredited)
MOVIE • 1951
Sierra
Character: Judge Prentiss
MOVIE • 1950
Night Unto Night
Character: Dr. Gallen Altheim
MOVIE • 1949
Impact
Character: Dr. Henry Bender
MOVIE • 1949
Wake of the Red Witch
Character: Dr. van Arken
MOVIE • 1948
Kidnapped
Character: Rankeillor
MOVIE • 1948
Macbeth
Character: Duncan
MOVIE • 1948
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Character: Dr. Danson (uncredited)
MOVIE • 1948
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Character: Porter
MOVIE • 1948
You Were Meant for Me
Character: Frank Smith
MOVIE • 1948
The Voice of the Turtle
Character: Storekeeper
MOVIE • 1947
The Lady from Shanghai
Character: Judge
MOVIE • 1947
Mourning Becomes Electra
Character: Josiah Borden
MOVIE • 1947
Possessed
Character: Dr. Max Sherman
MOVIE • 1947
The Best Years of Our Lives
Character: Bullard
MOVIE • 1946
Angel on My Shoulder
Character: Minister
MOVIE • 1946
Crack-Up
Character: Museum Director Barton
MOVIE • 1946
The Stranger
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
MOVIE • 1946
Without Reservations
Character: Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)
MOVIE • 1946