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!
Erskine Sanford Biography / Wiki
| Name | Erskine Sanford |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Trinidad, Colorado, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1885-11-19 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 83 |
| Deathday | 1969-07-07 |
Erskine Sanford Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Lady from Shanghai | Judge | 1947-12-24 | A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife…. |
| Angel on My Shoulder | Minister | 1946-09-20 | The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life…. |
| The Magnificent Ambersons | Roger Bronson | 1942-07-10 | The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved…. |
| Macbeth | Duncan | 1948-10-01 | A Scottish warlord and his wife murder their way to a pair of crowns…. |
| Kidnapped | Rankeillor | 1948-11-28 | In Scotland in 1752, seventeen-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his birthright by his evil uncle Ebenezer…. |
| The Voice of the Turtle | Storekeeper | 1947-12-25 | An aspiring Broadway actress falls in love with a soldier on leave during a weekend in New York City…. |
| Possessed | Dr. Sherman – Graham’s physician at inquest | 1947-05-29 | After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there…. |
| Ministry of Fear | George Rennit, private investigator | 1944-05-19 | Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn’t seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rej… |
| Crack-Up | Museum Director Barton | 1946-09-06 | Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck…which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?… |
| You Were Meant for Me | Frank Smith (uncredited) | 1948-01-28 | A bandleader falls in love and marries a small town girl…. |
| Night Unto Night | Dr. Gallen Altheim | 1949-06-10 | A bleak mansion sits ominously on a cliff above the sea somewhere on Florida’s east coast. In its shadows, two people meet: a scientist haunted by inc… |
| Citizen Kane | Herbert Carter | 1941-04-17 | Newspaper magnate, Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, t… |
| Pop Always Pays | John Hayes | 1940-06-21 | A businessman boasts he’ll give his daughter a large amount of cash for her wedding, and then frantically tries to raise the money. This 1940 comedy s… |
| Letter from an Unknown Woman | Porter | 1948-04-28 | A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forc… |
| The Wife Takes a Flyer | Jan | 1942-04-28 | Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as t… |
| The Stranger | Party Guest (uncredited) | 1946-07-02 | A man working for the War Crimes Commission suspects that an important Nazi official has folded himself into a quaint Connecticut town…. |
| From This Day Forward | Mr. Higgler | 1946-03-02 | A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has no… |
| Girls of the Big House | Professor O’Neill | 1945-11-02 | A women’s prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the b… |
| Wake of the Red Witch | Dr. van Arken | 1948-12-30 | Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch…. |
| Sierra | Judge Prentiss | 1950-05-26 | Ring Hassard and his father Jeff, wild horse breakers, live in a hidden mountain eyrie as Jeff is wanted for a murder he didn’t commit. Things change … |
| Too Much Johnson | Frederick | 2013-10-09 | This film was not intended to stand by itself, but was designed as the cinematic aspect of Welles’ Mercury Theatre stage presentation of William Gille… |
| Appointment for Love | Hastings’ Butler (uncredited) | 1941-10-31 | Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progress… |
| Jane Eyre | Mr. Briggs (uncredited) | 1943-12-24 | After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter…. |
| Without Reservations | Timothy Helgelander (uncredited) | 1946-05-13 | Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don’t… |
| Impact | Dr. Henry Bender | 1949-03-20 | After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime…. |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Undertaker (uncredited) | 1945-02-28 | In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa’s alcoholism. We come to know these people well thro… |
| The Best Years of Our Lives | Bullard | 1946-12-25 | It’s the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrive… |
| Spellbound | Dr. Galt (uncredited) | 1945-11-08 | When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, dis… |
| Mr. Skeffington | Dr. Fawcette (uncredited) | 1944-05-25 | A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty…. |
Credit: TMDB
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