Erskine Sanford
Erskine Sanford is credited on 25 movies, best known by TMDB votes for Citizen Kane, Spellbound and The Best Years of Our Lives.
Born November 19, 1885 in Trinidad, Colorado, USA; died July 7, 1969.
Filmography · 25 titles
US streaming apps shown for the 12 best-known titles, checked October 6, 2026. Tap any title for where it streams and what it costs.
Citizen Kane
1941 · Movie
Not on a US subscription app
Spellbound
1945 · Movie
Not on a US subscription app
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946 · Movie
On Prime Video and YouTube TV
The Lady from Shanghai
1947 · Movie
Free with ads on YouTube Free
The Stranger
1946 · Movie
On Prime Video and Starz
The Magnificent Ambersons
1942 · Movie
Free with ads on Plex
Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948 · Movie
On FlixFling
Ministry of Fear
1944 · Movie
Not on a US subscription app
Macbeth
1948 · Movie
Not on a US subscription app
Jane Eyre
1943 · Movie
Free with ads on Hoopla
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945 · Movie
Not on a US subscription app
Possessed
1947 · Movie
Not on a US subscription app
Mr. Skeffington
1944 · Movie
Impact
1949 · Movie
Wake of the Red Witch
1948 · Movie
Angel on My Shoulder
1946 · Movie
Crack-Up
1946 · Movie
Uncertain Glory
1944 · Movie
Too Much Johnson
2013 · Movie
Mourning Becomes Electra
1947 · Movie
Without Reservations
1946 · Movie
The Company She Keeps
1951 · Movie
Sierra
1950 · Movie
The Voice of the Turtle
1947 · Movie
From This Day Forward
1946 · Movie
About 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!
Biography from TMDB, written by its community.