Erskine Sanford

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

Herbert Carter

Spellbound

Dr. Galt (uncredited)

The Lady from Shanghai

Judge

The Best Years of Our Lives

Bullard

Macbeth

Duncan

The Stranger

Party Guest (uncredited)

The Magnificent Ambersons

Roger Bronson

Letter from an Unknown Woman

Porter

Angel on My Shoulder

Minister

Wake of the Red Witch

Dr. van Arken

Possessed

Dr. Sherman - Graham's physician at inquest

Impact

Dr. Henry Bender

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Undertaker (uncredited)

Without Reservations

Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)

Jane Eyre

Mr. Briggs (uncredited)

Mr. Skeffington

Dr. Fawcette (uncredited)

Crack-Up

Museum Director Barton

Sierra

Judge Prentiss

From This Day Forward

Higgler

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

Dr. Danson (uncredited)

Ministry of Fear

George Rennit, private investigator

Mourning Becomes Electra

Josiah Borden

Uncertain Glory

The Wife Takes a Flyer

Jan

The Voice of the Turtle

Storekeeper

Too Much Johnson

Frederick

Kidnapped

Rankeillor

Girls of the Big House

Professor O'Neill

Night Unto Night

Dr. Gallen Altheim

You Were Meant for Me

Frank Smith

Pop Always Pays

John Hayes

Appointment for Love

Hastings' Butler (uncredited)

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