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Erskine Sanford

Erskine Sanford

Birthday: 1885-11-19 | Place of Birth: 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!

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1949
Night Unto Night

as    Dr. Gallen Altheim

1948
Macbeth

as    Duncan

1948
You Were Meant for Me

as    Frank Smith

1948
The Lady from Shanghai

as    Judge

1948
Letter from an Unknown Woman

as    Porter

1948
Kidnapped

as    Rankeillor

1947
Possessed

as    Dr. Sherman - Graham's physician at inquest

1947
The Voice of the Turtle

as    Storekeeper

1946
Angel on My Shoulder

as    Minister

1946
Crack-Up

as    Museum Director Barton

1944
Ministry of Fear

as    George Rennit, private investigator

1942
The Magnificent Ambersons

as    Roger Bronson

1941
Citizen Kane

as    Herbert Carter