Erskine Sanford
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
as Herbert CarterNewspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a...
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The Best Years of Our Lives
as BullardIt's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally...
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The Stranger
as Party Guest (uncredited)An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi,...
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
as Undertaker (uncredited)In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and...
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The Lady from Shanghai
as JudgeA romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
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Jane Eyre
as Mr. Briggs (uncredited)After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a...
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Spellbound
as Dr. Galt (uncredited)When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital...
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Ministry of Fear
as George Rennit, private investigatorStephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so...
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The Magnificent Ambersons
as Roger BronsonThe spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the...
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Letter from an Unknown Woman
as PorterA pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she...
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Macbeth
as DuncanA Scottish warlord and his wife murder their way to a pair of crowns.
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Impact
as Dr. Henry BenderAfter surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the...
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Possessed
as Dr. Sherman - Graham's physician at inquestAfter being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a...
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Angel on My Shoulder
as MinisterThe Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make...
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Mr. Skeffington
as Dr. Fawcette (uncredited)A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her...
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Crack-Up
as Museum Director BartonArt curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up,...
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Wake of the Red Witch
as Dr. van ArkenCaptain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique...
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Mourning Becomes Electra
as Josiah BordenNear the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping...
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From This Day Forward
as HigglerA young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his...
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Without Reservations
as Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the...
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Sierra
as Judge PrentissRing Hassard and his father Jeff, wild horse breakers, live in a hidden mountain eyrie as Jeff...
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Uncertain Glory
as uncreditedIn occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid...
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Too Much Johnson
as FrederickThis film was not intended to stand by itself, but was designed as the cinematic aspect of...
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Girls of the Big House
as Professor O'NeillA women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town...
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Kidnapped
as RankeillorIn Scotland in 1752, seventeen-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his birthright by his...
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Appointment for Love
as Hastings' Butler (uncredited)Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The...
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The Wife Takes a Flyer
as JanChristopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied...
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The Voice of the Turtle
as StorekeeperAn aspiring Broadway actress falls in love with a soldier on leave during a weekend in New York...
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Pop Always Pays
as John HayesA businessman boasts he'll give his daughter a large amount of cash for her wedding, and then...
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Night Unto Night
as Dr. Gallen AltheimA bleak mansion sits ominously on a cliff above the sea somewhere on Florida's east coast. In...
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You Were Meant for Me
as Frank SmithA bandleader falls in love and marries a small town girl.
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Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
as Dr. Danson (uncredited)Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in,...
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