Erskine Sanford

Actor

Born: November 19, 1885 (83 years old)

Died: July 7, 1969

Place of birth: Trinidad, Colorado, USA

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 (28)

• Citizen Kane (1941, ★ 8)
• Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948, ★ 7.8)
• The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, ★ 7.3)
• The Lady from Shanghai (1947, ★ 7.4)
• Possessed (1947, ★ 6.9)
• Ministry of Fear (1944, ★ 6.9)
• Macbeth (1948, ★ 7.3)
• The Best Years of Our Lives (1946, ★ 7.8)
• Angel on My Shoulder (1946, ★ 6.5)
• Uncertain Glory (1944, ★ 6.7)
• The Voice of the Turtle (1947, ★ 6.8)
• Jane Eyre (1943, ★ 6.9)
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945, ★ 7.5)
• Mr. Skeffington (1944, ★ 6.8)
• The Stranger (1946, ★ 7.2)
• Spellbound (1945, ★ 7.4)
• Crack-Up (1946, ★ 5.7)
• Wake of the Red Witch (1948, ★ 5.7)
• Sierra (1950, ★ 5.4)
• From This Day Forward (1946, ★ 5.4)
• Too Much Johnson (1938, ★ 5.4)
• Without Reservations (1946, ★ 6.2)
• Mourning Becomes Electra (1947, ★ 6.1)
• Impact (1949, ★ 6.1)
• The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942, ★ 5.2)
• Night Unto Night (1949, ★ 5.4)
• Appointment for Love (1941, ★ 5.8)
• The Company She Keeps (1951, ★ 6.2)