
Acting · 83 years old
Trinidad, Colorado, USA
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!

Citizen Kane
Herbert Carter

The Best Years of Our Lives
Bullard

Letter from an Unknown Woman
Porter

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Undertaker (uncredited)

The Lady from Shanghai
Judge

Spellbound
Dr. Galt (uncredited)

The Magnificent Ambersons
Roger Bronson

Macbeth
Duncan

The Stranger
Party Guest (uncredited)

Possessed
Dr. Max Sherman

Ministry of Fear
George Rennit

Jane Eyre
Mr. Briggs (uncredited)

Mr. Skeffington
Dr. Fawcette (uncredited)

Uncertain Glory

The Voice of the Turtle
Storekeeper

Angel on My Shoulder
Minister

Without Reservations
Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)

Impact
Dr. Henry Bender

Girls of the Big House
Professor O'Neill

Mourning Becomes Electra
Josiah Borden