Erskine Sanford
Date of birth: 1885-11-19
Place of birth: Trinidad, Colorado, USA
Known for: Acting
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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 Credits
Citizen Kane
1941-04-17
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich
Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948-04-28
A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells
The Magnificent Ambersons
1942-07-10
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man
The Lady from Shanghai
1947-12-24
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
Possessed
1947-05-29
After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor th
Ministry of Fear
1944-05-19
Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so san
Angel on My Shoulder
1946-09-20
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up f
Crack-Up
1946-09-06
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or th
Macbeth
1948-10-01
A Scottish warlord and his wife murder their way to a pair of crowns.
Wake of the Red Witch
1948-12-30
Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix
Sierra
1950-05-26
Ring Hassard and his father Jeff, wild horse breakers, live in a hidden mountain eyrie as Jeff is wa
From This Day Forward
1946-03-02
A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride,
Uncertain Glory
1944-04-07
In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strike
Too Much Johnson
1934-01-01
This film was not intended to stand by itself, but was designed as the cinematic aspect of Welles' M
The Voice of the Turtle
1947-12-25
An aspiring Broadway actress falls in love with a soldier on leave during a weekend in New York City
Kidnapped
1948-11-28
In Scotland in 1752, seventeen-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his birthright by his evil
Jane Eyre
1943-12-24
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happi
Girls of the Big House
1945-11-02
A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman fr
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
1948-07-16
Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Ta
Without Reservations
1946-05-13
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945-02-28
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's
Mourning Becomes Electra
1947-11-19
Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tyco
Mr. Skeffington
1944-05-25
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth
Pop Always Pays
1940-06-21
A businessman boasts he'll give his daughter a large amount of cash for her wedding, and then franti
Impact
1949-03-20
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime
The Wife Takes a Flyer
1942-04-28
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland a
The Stranger
1946-07-02
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who
You Were Meant for Me
1948-01-28
A bandleader falls in love and marries a small town girl.
Night Unto Night
1949-06-10
A bleak mansion sits ominously on a cliff above the sea somewhere on Florida's east coast. In its sh
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946-12-25
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return
Spellbound
1945-11-08
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital dire
Appointment for Love
1941-10-31
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymo
The Company She Keeps
1951-01-06
A lady con artist sets out to steal her parole officer's fiance.