Erskine Sanford 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.
Erskine Sanford in Porgy (1928–1930)
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)
Erskine Sanford in the Citizen Kane trailer (1940)
The Mercury Theatre was an independent repertory theatre company founded in New York City in 1937 by Orson Welles and producer John Houseman. The company produced theatrical presentations, radio programs and motion pictures. The Mercury also released promptbooks and phonographic recordings of four Shakespeare works for use in schools.
Poster for the Mercury Theatre's three spring 1938 productions—Caesar, The Shoemaker's Holiday and The Cradle Will Rock—running simultaneously in two Broadway theaters
Orson Welles at age 22 (1938), Broadway's youngest impresario
Orson Welles as Brutus in Caesar (1937–38)
Marian Warring-Manley (Margery), Whitford Kane (Simon Eyre) and George Coulouris (The King) in The Shoemaker's Holiday (1938)
