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Erskine Sanford
Actor 1885 - 1969

Erskine Sanford

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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18 roles
Title screen of Citizen Kane No snapshots yet
Character Herbert Carter
The Company She Keeps No snapshots yet
Character Planetarium Guide (uncredited)
Title screen of Impact No snapshots yet
Character Dr. Henry Bender

Impact

1949

Title screen of Letter from an Unknown Woman No snapshots yet
Character Porter
Title screen of Macbeth No snapshots yet
Character Duncan

Macbeth

1948

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Character Dr. van Arken
You Were Meant for Me No snapshots yet
Character Frank Smith
Mourning Becomes Electra No snapshots yet
Character Josiah Borden
Title screen of Possessed No snapshots yet
Character Dr. Max Sherman

Possessed

1947

Title screen of The Lady from Shanghai No snapshots yet
Character Judge
Best snapshot from Angel on My Shoulder No snapshots yet
Character Minister
Crack-Up No snapshots yet
Character Museum Director Barton

Crack-Up

1946

Title screen of From This Day Forward No snapshots yet
Character Higgler
Title screen of The Best Years of Our Lives No snapshots yet
Character Bullard
Title screen of The Stranger No snapshots yet
Character Party Guest (uncredited)
Without Reservations No snapshots yet
Character Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)
Title screen of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn No snapshots yet
Character Undertaker (uncredited)
Title screen of Spellbound No snapshots yet
Character Dr. Galt (uncredited)

Spellbound

1945

Filmography

Every title this person appears in

23 titles
The Company She Keeps
The Company She Keeps 1951
Impact
Impact 1949
You Were Meant for Me
You Were Meant for Me 1948
Wake of the Red Witch
Wake of the Red Witch 1948
Macbeth
Macbeth 1948
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948
The Lady from Shanghai
The Lady from Shanghai 1947
Possessed
Possessed 1947
Mourning Becomes Electra
Mourning Becomes Electra 1947
Without Reservations
Without Reservations 1946
The Stranger
The Stranger 1946
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Best Years of Our Lives 1946
From This Day Forward
From This Day Forward 1946
Crack-Up
Crack-Up 1946
Angel on My Shoulder
Angel on My Shoulder 1946
Spellbound
Spellbound 1945
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945
Mr. Skeffington
Mr. Skeffington 1944
Ministry of Fear
Ministry of Fear 1944
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 1943
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Magnificent Ambersons 1942
Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane 1941
Too Much Johnson
Too Much Johnson 1938

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