Personal Info
Birth date
1885-11-19 (139 Years)
Day of death
1969-07-07
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Trinidad, Colorado, USA
Also known as
-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!
Filmography
Citizen Kane
7.999
Overview:
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.The Stranger
7.225
Overview:
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who may be hiding out in a small town in the guise of a distinguished professor engaged to the Supreme Court Justice’s daughter.Sierra
5.3
Overview:
Ring Hassard and his father Jeff, wild horse breakers, live in a hidden mountain eyrie as Jeff is wanted for a murder he didn't commit. Things change when they take in a lost young lady, Riley Martin, who finds that Ring has "never seen a woman close up." Jeff is injured, Ring runs afoul of horse thieves and the law, and Riley (who is a lawyer) labors to clear the Hassards (who others would prefer dead).The Best Years of Our Lives
7.792
Overview:
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 a nightmare.Spellbound
7.4
Overview:
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.Impact
6
Overview:
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.Letter from an Unknown Woman
7.799
Overview:
A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forced to reinterpret his own past.The Lady from Shanghai
7.4
Overview:
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.Angel on My Shoulder
6.4
Overview:
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.The Magnificent Ambersons
7.312
Overview:
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.Jane Eyre
6.914
Overview:
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
7.556
Overview:
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.Possessed
6.8
Overview:
After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.Mourning Becomes Electra
6.3
Overview:
Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin. Meanwhile Ezra’s conniving wife Christine and daughter Lavinia vie for the love of a handsome captain with a dark secret while well-meaning neighbor Peter sets his sights on Lavinia.Ministry of Fear
6.869
Overview:
Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know to whom to turn.Crack-Up
5.6
Overview:
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?Mr. Skeffington
6.643
Overview:
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.Without Reservations
6.2
Overview:
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.Wake of the Red Witch
5.6
Overview:
Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.Uncertain Glory
6.6
Overview:
In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by the inspector of the Surete responsible for his original arrest. Fearing the guillotine more than his actual death, the convict inveigles the inspector to help him with a plan to rescue 100 Frenchmen taken by the Gestapo following an act of sabotage: he will confess to being the saboteur and allow himself to be executed by firing squad, the Gestapo's method of execution, thus freeing the 100 men.Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
5.333
Overview:
Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and move to New York to become a playwright. Along the way, his car breaks down and a girl walking along the highway asks for a lift. It turns out she's a nice girl, named Perry, running away from a job at a gasoline station. Soon they're off to New York together, but part ways once they arrive. Time passes and Eddie is failing to sell his play; Perry is failing to find a job. Odd circumstances, involving an old pickpocket named Mandy, bring them together again.From This Day Forward
5.2
Overview:
A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has not seen for several years. The two come together with many trials and tribulations in trying to preserve their marriage in the post-war years.Too Much Johnson
5.3
Overview:
This film was not intended to stand by itself, but was designed as the cinematic aspect of Welles' Mercury Theatre stage presentation of William Gillette's 1894 comedy about a New York playboy who flees from the violent husband of his mistress and borrows the identity of a plantation owner in Cuba who is expecting the arrival of a mail order bride. The film component of the performance was ultimately never screened due to the absence of projection facilities at the venue. Long-believed to be lost, a workprint was discovered in 2008 and the film had its premiere in 2013.The Voice of the Turtle
6.6
Overview:
An aspiring Broadway actress falls in love with a soldier on leave during a weekend in New York City.Night Unto Night
5.1
Overview:
A bleak mansion sits ominously on a cliff above the sea somewhere on Florida's east coast. In its shadows, two people meet: a scientist haunted by incurable illness and a beautiful woman haunted by the voice of her dead husband.Kidnapped
5.5
Overview:
In Scotland in 1752, seventeen-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his birthright by his evil uncle Ebenezer.The Wife Takes a Flyer
4.5
Overview:
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of the house, Anita Wolverman, Reynolds convinces the German officer quartered there, Major Zellfritz, with the necessity for her divorce decree to be granted. After the court-hearing, Anita, goes to manage a home for retired ladies and, persuaded by Reynolds, tries to gain military information from the German Officer. When her former husband escapes from the insane-asylum his exploits are blamed on Reynolds. With the help of the old ladies and Anita, who "remarries" him, Reynolds escapes to England in a stolen German airplane.Acting
2013Too Much Johnson as Frederick
1951The Company She Keeps as Planetarium Guide (uncredited)
1950Sierra as Judge Prentiss
1949Night Unto Night as Dr. Gallen Altheim
1949Impact as Dr. Henry Bender
1948Wake of the Red Witch as Dr. van Arken
1948Kidnapped as Rankeillor
1948Macbeth as Duncan
1948Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven as Dr. Danson (uncredited)
1948Letter from an Unknown Woman as Porter
1948You Were Meant for Me as Frank Smith
1947The Voice of the Turtle as Storekeeper
1947The Lady from Shanghai as Judge
1947Mourning Becomes Electra as Josiah Borden
1947Possessed as Dr. Sherman - Graham's physician at inquest
1946The Best Years of Our Lives as Bullard
1946Angel on My Shoulder as Minister
1946Crack-Up as Museum Director Barton
1946The Stranger as Party Guest (uncredited)
1946Without Reservations as Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)
1946From This Day Forward as Higgler
1945Spellbound as Dr. Galt (uncredited)
1945Girls of the Big House as Professor O'Neill
1945A Tree Grows in Brooklyn as Undertaker (uncredited)
1944Mr. Skeffington as Dr. Fawcette (uncredited)
1944Ministry of Fear as George Rennit, private investigator
1944Uncertain Glory as Unknown
1943Jane Eyre as Mr. Briggs (uncredited)
1942The Magnificent Ambersons as Roger Bronson
1942The Wife Takes a Flyer as Jan
1941Appointment for Love as Hastings' Butler (uncredited)
1941Citizen Kane as Herbert Carter
1940Pop Always Pays as John Hayes