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Erskine Sanford
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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!
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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.
Macbeth
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Mourning Becomes Electra
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Citizen Kane
As Herbert Carter
The Best Years of Our Lives
As Bullard
The Lady from Shanghai
As Judge
Jane Eyre
As Mr. Briggs (uncredited)
The Magnificent Ambersons
As Roger Bronson
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
The Melodrama They Never Let Us Keep
Rachel Morrison's Love of Your Life arrives as a reminder: the woman's picture was never a lesser form. It was grief, desire and colour, and the Europeans knew...
8 films
Ghosts in the Machine
From a stuntman's final role to a star's digital encore, these eight films trace cinema's long affair with performing from beyond the grave.
8 films
The Verse Will Outlive the Stage
Eight films that take Shakespeare's words into new weather, new cities and new blood, proving the plays were never meant to stay indoors.
8 films
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Macbeth
1948 · Duncan
Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948 · Porter
The Lady from Shanghai
1947 · Judge
Mourning Becomes Electra
1947 · Josiah Borden
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946 · Bullard
Ministry of Fear
1944 · George Rennit
Jane Eyre
1943 · Mr. Briggs (uncredited)
The Magnificent Ambersons
1942 · Roger Bronson
Citizen Kane
1941 · Herbert Carter