
Erskine Sanford
Department: Acting
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!
Known For

Citizen Kane
1941

Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948

The Magnificent Ambersons
1942

The Lady from Shanghai
1947

Possessed
1947

Ministry of Fear
1944

Angel on My Shoulder
1946

Crack-Up
1946

Macbeth
1948

Wake of the Red Witch
1948

Sierra
1950

From This Day Forward
1946

Uncertain Glory
1944

Too Much Johnson
1938

The Voice of the Turtle
1947

Kidnapped
1948

Jane Eyre
1943

Girls of the Big House
1945

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
1948

Without Reservations
1946

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945

Mourning Becomes Electra
1947

Mr. Skeffington
1944

Pop Always Pays
1940

Impact
1949

The Wife Takes a Flyer
1942

The Stranger
1946

You Were Meant for Me
1948

Night Unto Night
1949

The Best Years of Our Lives
1946

Spellbound
1945

Appointment for Love
1941

The Company She Keeps
1951

Citizen Kane Trailer
1940