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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!

Filmography

Too Much Johnson

as Frederick

The Company She Keeps

as Planetarium Guide (uncredited)

Sierra

as Judge Prentiss

Night Unto Night

as Dr. Gallen Altheim

Impact

as Dr. Henry Bender

Wake of the Red Witch

as Dr. van Arken

Kidnapped

as Rankeillor

Macbeth

as Duncan

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

as Dr. Danson (uncredited)

Letter from an Unknown Woman

as Porter

You Were Meant for Me

as Frank Smith

The Voice of the Turtle

as Storekeeper

The Lady from Shanghai

as Judge

Mourning Becomes Electra

as Josiah Borden

Possessed

as Dr. Max Sherman

The Best Years of Our Lives

as Bullard

Angel on My Shoulder

as Minister

Crack-Up

as Museum Director Barton

The Stranger

as Party Guest (uncredited)

Without Reservations

as Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)

From This Day Forward

as Higgler

Spellbound

as Dr. Galt (uncredited)

Girls of the Big House

as Professor O'Neill

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

as Undertaker (uncredited)

Mr. Skeffington

as Dr. Fawcette (uncredited)

Ministry of Fear

as George Rennit

Uncertain Glory

Cast

Jane Eyre

as Mr. Briggs (uncredited)

The Magnificent Ambersons

as Roger Bronson

The Wife Takes a Flyer

as Jan

Appointment for Love

as Hastings' Butler (uncredited)

Citizen Kane

as Herbert Carter

Pop Always Pays

as John Hayes