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!
Citizen Kane
Herbert Carter
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Porter
The Magnificent Ambersons
Roger Bronson
The Lady from Shanghai
Judge
Possessed
Dr. Max Sherman
Ministry of Fear
George Rennit
Angel on My Shoulder
Minister
Crack-Up
Museum Director Barton
Macbeth
Duncan
Wake of the Red Witch
Dr. van Arken
Sierra
Judge Prentiss
From This Day Forward
Higgler
Uncertain Glory
Too Much Johnson
Frederick
The Voice of the Turtle
Storekeeper
Kidnapped
Rankeillor
Jane Eyre
Mr. Briggs (uncredited)
Girls of the Big House
Professor O'Neill
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Dr. Danson (uncredited)
Without Reservations
Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Undertaker (uncredited)
Mourning Becomes Electra
Josiah Borden
Mr. Skeffington
Dr. Fawcette (uncredited)
Pop Always Pays
John Hayes
Impact
Dr. Henry Bender
The Wife Takes a Flyer
Jan
The Stranger
Party Guest (uncredited)
You Were Meant for Me
Frank Smith
Night Unto Night
Dr. Gallen Altheim
The Best Years of Our Lives
Bullard
Spellbound
Dr. Galt (uncredited)
Appointment for Love
Hastings' Butler (uncredited)
The Company She Keeps
Planetarium Guide (uncredited)
Citizen Kane Trailer
himself/Herbert Carter