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
1941
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946
Spellbound
1945
The Lady from Shanghai
1947
Mr. Skeffington
1944
The Magnificent Ambersons
1942
Jane Eyre
1943
Macbeth
1948
The Stranger
1946
Wake of the Red Witch
1948
Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
33
2013
Too Much Johnson
as Frederick (uncredited)
1951
The Company She Keeps
as Planetarium Guide (uncredited)
1950
Sierra
as Judge Prentiss
1949
Impact
as Dr. Henry Bender
1949
Night Unto Night
as Dr. Gallen Altheim
1948
Letter from an Unknown Woman
as Porter
1948
Macbeth
as Duncan
1948
Wake of the Red Witch
as Dr. van Arken
1948
Kidnapped
as Rankeillor
1948
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
as Dr. Danson (uncredited)
1948
You Were Meant for Me
as Frank Smith
1947
The Lady from Shanghai
as Judge
1947
Possessed
as Dr. Max Sherman
1947
The Voice of the Turtle
as Storekeeper
1947
Mourning Becomes Electra
as Josiah Borden
1946
Angel on My Shoulder
as Minister
1946
Crack-Up
as Museum Director Barton
1946
From This Day Forward
as Higgler
1946
Without Reservations
as Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)
1946
The Stranger
as Party Guest (uncredited)
1946
The Best Years of Our Lives
as Bullard
1945
Girls of the Big House
as Professor O'Neill
1945
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
as Undertaker (uncredited)
1945
Spellbound
as Dr. Galt (uncredited)
1944
Ministry of Fear
as George Rennit
1944
Uncertain Glory
1944
Mr. Skeffington
as Dr. Fawcette (uncredited)
1943
Jane Eyre
as Mr. Briggs (uncredited)
1942
The Magnificent Ambersons
as Roger Bronson
1942
The Wife Takes a Flyer
as Jan
1941
Citizen Kane
as Herbert Carter
1941
Appointment for Love
as Hastings' Butler (uncredited)
1940
Pop Always Pays
as John Hayes