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!
Highest rated appearances
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
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
