★ Acting
1885 – 1969
· Trinidad, Colorado, USA
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Active 1940–2013
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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Citizen Kane
1941
★ 7.9
as Herbert Carter
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 the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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Filmography
33 credits
2010s
1 credit
1950s
2 credits
1940s
30 credits