Erskine Sanford

Acting · Born 1885-11-19 in Trinidad, Colorado, USA

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!

Filmography

• Citizen Kane as Herbert Carter
• Letter from an Unknown Woman as Porter
• The Magnificent Ambersons as Roger Bronson
• The Lady from Shanghai as Judge
• Possessed as Dr. Max Sherman
• Ministry of Fear as George Rennit
• Angel on My Shoulder as Minister
• Crack-Up as Museum Director Barton
• Macbeth as Duncan
• Wake of the Red Witch as Dr. van Arken