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Known For

Erskine Sanford is known for:

  • The Lady from Shanghai
    A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
  • Citizen Kane
    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 Magnificent Ambersons
    The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

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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!