Erskine Sanford

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

Citizen Kane

as Herbert Carter

Spellbound

as Dr. Galt (uncredited)

The Lady from Shanghai

as Judge

The Best Years of Our Lives

as Bullard

The Stranger

as Party Guest (uncredited)

The Magnificent Ambersons

as Roger Bronson

Letter from an Unknown Woman

as Porter

Ministry of Fear

as George Rennit, private investigator

Macbeth

as Duncan

Jane Eyre

as Mr. Briggs (uncredited)