Erskine Sanford

★ Acting #11,170

1885 - 1969 (age 83) • Acting

Born: 11/19/1885 in Trinidad, Colorado, USA

Died: 7/7/1969 (age 83)

Known for: Acting

Erskine Sanford

★ Acting #11,170

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

The Lady from Shanghai

73%

Judge

1947

The Magnificent Ambersons

73%

Roger Bronson

1942

Macbeth

73%

Duncan

1948

Angel on My Shoulder

65%

Minister

1946

The Voice of the Turtle

68%

Storekeeper

1947

Kidnapped

67%

Rankeillor

1948

Too Much Johnson

54%

Frederick

2013

The Company She Keeps

62%

Planetarium Guide (uncredited)

1951

Sierra

54%

Judge Prentiss

1950

Night Unto Night

54%

Dr. Gallen Altheim

1949

Impact

61%

Dr. Henry Bender

1949

Wake of the Red Witch

58%

Dr. van Arken

1948

Kidnapped

67%

Rankeillor

1948

Macbeth

73%

Duncan

1948

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

58%

Dr. Danson (uncredited)

1948

Letter from an Unknown Woman

78%

Porter

1948

You Were Meant for Me

63%

Frank Smith

1948

The Voice of the Turtle

68%

Storekeeper

1947

The Lady from Shanghai

73%

Judge

1947

Mourning Becomes Electra

61%

Josiah Borden

1947

Possessed

69%

Dr. Max Sherman

1947

The Best Years of Our Lives

77%

Bullard

1946

Angel on My Shoulder

65%

Minister

1946

Crack-Up

58%

Museum Director Barton

1946

The Stranger

72%

Party Guest (uncredited)

1946

Without Reservations

63%

Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)

1946

From This Day Forward

54%

Higgler

1946

Spellbound

74%

Dr. Galt (uncredited)

1945

Girls of the Big House

75%

Professor O'Neill

1945

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

75%

Undertaker (uncredited)

1945

Mr. Skeffington

68%

Dr. Fawcette (uncredited)

1944

Ministry of Fear

69%

George Rennit

1944

Uncertain Glory

67%

1944

Jane Eyre

69%

Mr. Briggs (uncredited)

1943