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Erskine Sanford

Actor | * 11/19/1885 († 83, 07/07/1969) | Trinidad, Colorado (United States of America (USA))
Erskine Sanford (November 19, 1885 – July 7, 1969) was an American actor on the stage, radio and motion pictures. Long associated with the Theatre Guild, he later joined Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre company and appeared in several of Welles's films, including Citizen Kane (1941), in which he played Herbert Carter, the bumbling, perspiring newspaper editor. ()

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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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Romance / Love | Comedies

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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 arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become ...

The Best Years of Our Lives

Certification unknown

1946 | 3.9/5 | 2h 51min
Drama, Romance / Love, War
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The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved. ...

The Magnificent Ambersons

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1942 | 3.7/5 | 1h 28min
Drama, Romance / Love, History
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A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife. ...

The Lady from Shanghai

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1947 | 3.7/5 | 1h 27min
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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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, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for th ...

Citizen Kane

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1941 | 4.0/5 | 1h 59min
Mystery, Drama
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Movies with Erskine Sanford as Actor(30)

as Frederick2013 Too Much Johnson
as Judge Prentiss1950 Sierra
as Dr. Henry Bender1949 Impact
as Dr. Gallen Altheim1949 Night Unto Night
as Dr. Danson (uncredited)1948 Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
as Duncan1948 Macbeth
as Frank Smith (uncredited)1948 You Were Meant for Me
as Porter1948 Letter from an Unknown Woman
as Dr. van Arken1948 Wake of the Red Witch
as Rankeillor1948 Kidnapped
as Dr. Sherman - Graham's physician at inquest1947 Possessed
as Judge1947 The Lady from Shanghai
as Storekeeper1947 The Voice of the Turtle
as Museum Director Barton1946 Crack-Up
as Bullard1946 The Best Years of Our Lives
as Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)1946 Without Reservations
as Party Guest (uncredited)1946 The Stranger
as Minister1946 Angel on My Shoulder
as Higgler1946 From This Day Forward
as Dr. Galt (uncredited)1945 Spellbound
as Undertaker (uncredited)1945 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
as Professor O'Neill1945 Girls of the Big House
as Dr. Fawcette (uncredited)1944 Mr. Skeffington
as George Rennit, private investigator1944 Ministry of Fear
as Mr. Briggs (uncredited)1943 Jane Eyre
as Roger Bronson1942 The Magnificent Ambersons
as Jan1942 The Wife Takes a Flyer
as Herbert Carter1941 Citizen Kane
as Hastings' Butler (uncredited)1941 Appointment for Love
as John Hayes1940 Pop Always Pays

Full Name: Erskine Sanford
Born: Thursday, 11/19 1885 (November) in Trinidad, Colorado (United States of America (USA))
Died: Monday, 07/07 1969 (July) in Los Angeles (aged: 83)
Zodiac sign: Scorpio (Chinese zodiac sign: Rooster)
Educated at: Horace Mann School
Erskine Sanford frequently works together with these people:
Orson Welles (29x, Actor)
Gus Schilling (6x, Actor)
Ray Collins (4x, Actor)
John Houseman (4x, Actor)
John Berry (4x, Crew)
William Alland (4x, Crew)
Philip Morris (4x, Actor)
Bernard Herrmann (4x, Crew)
Albert S. D'Agostino (4x, Crew)
Mel Berns (4x, Crew)
Houseley Stevenson (3x, Actor)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:491978, Added: 10/04/2018, Last updated: 03/29/2024