Erskine Sanford

1885-11-19

•Trinidad, Colorado, USA

1969-07-07

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 Movies

8.0

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 ...

7.8

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 ...

7.3

The Magnificent Ambersons

1942-07-10

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man...

7.4

The Lady from Shanghai

1947-12-24

A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.

6.8

Possessed

1947-05-29

After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor th...

6.9

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...

6.4

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...

5.6

Crack-Up

1946-09-06

Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or th...

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