
Erskine Sanford
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!
Movie Appearances

Citizen Kane
as Herbert Carter
1941

Letter from an Unknown Woman
as Porter
1948

The Magnificent Ambersons
as Roger Bronson
1942

The Lady from Shanghai
as Judge
1947

Possessed
as Dr. Max Sherman
1947

Ministry of Fear
as George Rennit
1944

Angel on My Shoulder
as Minister
1946

Crack-Up
as Museum Director Barton
1946

Macbeth
as Duncan
1948

Wake of the Red Witch
as Dr. van Arken
1948

Sierra
as Judge Prentiss
1950

From This Day Forward
as Higgler
1946

Uncertain Glory
1944

Too Much Johnson
as Frederick
1938

The Voice of the Turtle
as Storekeeper
1947

Kidnapped
as Rankeillor
1948

Jane Eyre
as Mr. Briggs (uncredited)
1943

Girls of the Big House
as Professor O'Neill
1945

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
as Dr. Danson (uncredited)
1948

Without Reservations
as Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)
1946