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Erskine Sanford

Erskine Sanford

American actor (1885–1969)

Erskine Sanford (November 19, 1885 – July 7, 1969) was an American actor on the stage, radio and motion pictures. Long associated with the Theatre Guild, he later joined Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre company and appeared in several of Welles's films, including Citizen Kane (1941), in which he played Herbert Carter, the bumbling, perspiring newspaper editor.[3]

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Biography

Erskine Sanford was born in Trinidad, Colorado, and was educated at the Horace Mann School in New York City.[4] Beginning his acting career with Minnie Maddern Fiske's company,[5] he made his professional debut in Leah Kleschna.[6] He appeared in The Blue Bird and The Piper (1910–11) at the New Theatre in New York City, and in Shakespearean repertory with Ben Greet.[5]: 16 

For some 15 years he was associated with the Theatre Guild, playing roles on Broadway and on tour, including performances of Porgy and Strange Interlude on the London stage.[7]

In Kenosha, Wisconsin, Sanford first met Orson Welles in 1922, when the seven-year-old boy came backstage to meet him after a touring performance of Mr. Pim Passes By. Years later, Sanford left the Theatre Guild to join Welles's Mercury Theatre company,[8] and made his Mercury debut in the 1938 stage production of Heartbreak House. Appearing as Mazzini Dunn, Sanford reprised the role he had created 18 years before in the Theatre Guild's world premiere production.[9]: 351 

In 1941, Sanford married psychiatric nursing pioneer Adele Poston,[10][11] but the marriage lasted only a short time.

Theatre credits

Erskine Sanford, Dudley Digges and Laura Hope Crews in the Theatre Guild production of A.A. Milne's Mr. Pim Passes By (1921)
Howard Smith, Mary Wickes, Orson Welles, Virginia Nicolson, William Herz, Erskine Sanford, Eustace Wyatt and Joseph Cotten during the two-week run of the Mercury Theatre stage production of Too Much Johnson (1938)
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Filmography

Erskine Sanford in the Citizen Kane trailer (1940)
Erskine Sanford as Herbert Carter in the Citizen Kane trailer (1940)
Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane and Erskine Sanford in Citizen Kane (1941)
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Radio credits

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References

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    Social Register, Summer 1918. New York City: Social Register Association. 1918. p. 479. OCLC 145379781. Fanny Reynolds Howe Sanford.
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