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!
Known For
Complete Filmography
Too Much Johnson
2013
as Frederick
This film was not intended to stand by itself, but was designed as the cinematic aspect of Welles' Mercury Theatre stage presentation of William Gille...
Sierra
1950
as Judge Prentiss
Ring Hassard and his father Jeff, wild horse breakers, live in a hidden mountain eyrie as Jeff is wanted for a murder he didn't commit. Things change ...
Night Unto Night
1949
as Dr. Gallen Altheim
A bleak mansion sits ominously on a cliff above the sea somewhere on Florida's east coast. In its shadows, two people meet: a scientist haunted by inc...
Impact
1949
as Dr. Henry Bender
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
Wake of the Red Witch
1948
as Dr. van Arken
Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.
Kidnapped
1948
as Rankeillor
In Scotland in 1752, seventeen-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his birthright by his evil uncle Ebenezer.
Macbeth
1948
as Duncan
A Scottish warlord and his wife murder their way to a pair of crowns.
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
1948
as Dr. Danson (uncredited)
Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and ...
Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948
as Porter
A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forc...
You Were Meant for Me
1948
as Frank Smith
A bandleader falls in love and marries a small town girl.
The Voice of the Turtle
1947
as Storekeeper
An aspiring Broadway actress falls in love with a soldier on leave during a weekend in New York City.
The Lady from Shanghai
1947
as Judge
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
Mourning Becomes Electra
1947
as Josiah Borden
Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin. Meanwhile Ezra’s conn...
Possessed
1947
as Dr. Sherman - Graham's physician at inquest
After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946
as Bullard
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrive...
Angel on My Shoulder
1946
as Minister
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
Crack-Up
1946
as Museum Director Barton
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?
The Stranger
1946
as Party Guest (uncredited)
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who may be hiding out in a small town in the guise of ...
Without Reservations
1946
as Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't...
From This Day Forward
1946
as Higgler
A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has no...
Spellbound
1945
as Dr. Galt (uncredited)
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, dis...
Girls of the Big House
1945
as Professor O'Neill
A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the b...
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945
as Undertaker (uncredited)
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well thro...
Mr. Skeffington
1944
as Dr. Fawcette (uncredited)
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
Ministry of Fear
1944
as George Rennit, private investigator
Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rej...
Uncertain Glory
1944
In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by the in...
Jane Eyre
1943
as Mr. Briggs (uncredited)
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she mee...
The Magnificent Ambersons
1942
as Roger Bronson
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
The Wife Takes a Flyer
1942
as Jan
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as t...
Appointment for Love
1941
as Hastings' Butler (uncredited)
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progress...
Citizen Kane
1941
as Herbert Carter
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, ty...
Pop Always Pays
1940
as John Hayes
A businessman boasts he'll give his daughter a large amount of cash for her wedding, and then frantically tries to raise the money. This 1940 comedy s...