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)
Letter from an Unknown Woman
(Porter)
The Magnificent Ambersons
(Roger Bronson)
The Lady from Shanghai
(Judge)
Possessed
(Dr. Sherman - Graham's physician at inquest)
Ministry of Fear
(George Rennit, private investigator)
Angel on My Shoulder
(Minister)
Crack-Up
(Museum Director Barton)
Macbeth
(Duncan)
Wake of the Red Witch
(Dr. van Arken)
Sierra
(Judge Prentiss)
From This Day Forward
(Higgler)
Uncertain Glory
Too Much Johnson
(Frederick)
The Voice of the Turtle
(Storekeeper)
Kidnapped
(Rankeillor)
Jane Eyre
(Mr. Briggs (uncredited))
Girls of the Big House
(Professor O'Neill)
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
(Dr. Danson (uncredited))
Without Reservations
(Timothy Helgelander (uncredited))
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
(Undertaker (uncredited))
Mourning Becomes Electra
(Josiah Borden)
Mr. Skeffington
(Dr. Fawcette (uncredited))
Pop Always Pays
(John Hayes)
Impact
(Dr. Henry Bender)
The Wife Takes a Flyer
(Jan)
The Stranger
(Party Guest (uncredited))
You Were Meant for Me
(Frank Smith)
Night Unto Night
(Dr. Gallen Altheim)
The Best Years of Our Lives
(Bullard)
Spellbound
(Dr. Galt (uncredited))
Appointment for Love
(Hastings' Butler (uncredited))