Erskine Sanford

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Erskine Sanford
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Erskine Sanford in Porgy (1928–30)
Born (1885-11-19)November 19, 1885
Trinidad, Colorado, U.S.
Died Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist.
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation Actor
Years active 1904–1952
Spouse(s) Fanny Reynolds Howe
(married 1918–?)[1]
Children 2[2]

Erskine Sanford (November 19, 1885 – July 7, 1969) was an American actor on the stage and in radio and motion pictures. A member of Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre company,[3] he also appeared in several of Welles's films, most notably as the bumbling, perspiring newspaper editor Herbert Carter in Citizen Kane.[4]

Biography

Erskine Sanford was born in Trinidad, Colorado, and was educated at the Horace Mann School in New York City.[5] He began his acting career with Mrs. Fiske's company,[6] making his professional debut in Leah Kleschna.[7] 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.[6]:16 For some 15 years he was associated with the Theatre Guild, playing a variety of roles on Broadway and on tour, including performances of Porgy and Strange Interlude on the London stage.[8]

In Kenosha, Wisconsin, Sanford first met Orson Welles when the seven-year-old boy came backstage to meet him after a touring performance of Mr. Pim Passes By. Sanford left the Theatre Guild to join Welles's Mercury Theatre company,[9] 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.[10]:351

Theatre credits

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Erskine Sanford as Mazzini Dunn in the original Broadway production of Heartbreak House (1920)
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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)
Date Title Role Notes
February 11, 1916 Playlets Belasco Theatre, New York City[11]
November 14 – December 30, 1916 Gertrude Kingston and a Visiting Company Neighborhood Playhouse and Maxine Elliott Theatre, New York City[12]
October 13, 1919 – January 1920 The Faithful Hara, Honzo Garrick Theatre, New York City[13]
Theatre Guild production[14]
November 25, 1919 – February 1920 The Rise of Silas Lapham Mr. Sewell Garrick Theatre, New York City[15]
January 15 – March 1920 The Power of Darkness Mitrich Garrick Theatre, New York City[16]
February 23 – September 1920 Jane Clegg Mr. Morrison Garrick Theatre, New York City[17]
September 4 – October 1920 The Treasure The President of the Community Garrick Theatre, New York City[18]
November 10, 1920 – February 26, 1921 Heartbreak House Mazzini Dunn Garrick Theatre, New York City[19]
February 28 – June 1921 Mr. Pim Passes By Carraway Pim Garrick Theatre, New York City[20]
April 20 – June 1921 Liliom Captain, First Policeman of the Beyond Garrick Theatre, New York City[21]
December 20, 1922 – February 1923 Johannes Kreisler Theodor Apollo Theatre, New York City[22]
March 26 – April 1923 Sandro Botticelli Fra Filippo Lippi Provincetown Playhouse, New York City[23]
November 19, 1923 – January 1924 The Failures The Musician Garrick Theatre, New York City[24]
April 14 – June 1924 Man and the Masses Third Banker, A Priest Garrick Theatre, New York City[25]
October 19 – December 1925 The Glass Slipper Captain Gal, Police Sergeant Guild Theatre, New York City[26]
January 25 – March 1926 The Goat Song Starsina, Priest Guild Theatre, New York City[27]
March 23 – April 1926 What's the Big Idea Peter Clausen Bijou Theatre, New York City[28]
October 11 – November 1926 Juarez and Maximilian Lawyer Siliceo, Jose Rincon Gallardo Guild Theatre, New York City[29]
November 18 – December 1926 The Witch Master Laurentius Greenwich Village Theatre, New York City[30]
February 24 – March 1927 Puppets of Passion Attendant Theatre Masque, New York City[31]
April 18 – August 1927 Mr. Pim Passes By Carraway Pim Garrick Theatre, New York City[32]
1928 – August 1928 Porgy Alan Archdale Republic Theatre, New York City[33]
1928–29 Porgy Alan Archdale Tour including nine weeks in Chicago, six weeks in London, and performances in Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Washington, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and cities in the northwestern United States and Canada[34]
September 13 – October 1929 Porgy Alan Archdale Martin Beck Theatre, New York City[35]
October 14, 1929 – January 1930 Porgy Alan Archdale National tour[36][37]
October 27 – December 1930 Roar China Mr. Tourist Martin Beck Theatre, New York City[38]
October 26, 1931 – March 1932 Mourning Becomes Electra Dr. Joseph Blake, Abner Small Guild Theatre, New York City[39]
February 21 – March 1933 American Dream Murdoch Guild Theatre, New York City[40]
February 21 – April 1934 They Shall Not Die Sheriff Nelson Royale Theatre, New York City[41]
December 10, 1934 – January 1935 Valley Forge Mr. Folsom Guild Theatre, New York City[42]
October 11 – October 1935 Sweet Mystery of Life Doctor Warren Shubert Theatre, New York City[43]
April 29 – June 11, 1938 Heartbreak House Mazzini Dunn Mercury Theatre, New York City[44][45]:47
August 16–29, 1938 Too Much Johnson Frederic Stony Creek Theatre, Stony Creek, Connecticut[45]:50
February 27 – March 1939 Five Kings (Part One) Lord Chief Justice Colonial Theatre, Boston[45]:54[46]:350–351
March 13 – March 1939 Five Kings (Part One) Lord Chief Justice National Theatre, Washington, D.C.[46]:351
March 20–25, 1939 Five Kings (Part One) Lord Chief Justice Chestnut Street Opera House, Philadelphia[46]:351[10]:428
March 24 – June 28, 1941 Native Son Mr. Dalton St. James Theatre, New York City[47]
May 28–31, 1947 Macbeth Duncan Kingsbury Hall, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Six performances staged in preparation for the film version shot in June 1947 with the same principal cast[45]:52–53[46]:401

Filmography

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Erskine Sanford in the Citizen Kane trailer (1940)
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Erskine Sanford as Herbert Carter in the Citizen Kane trailer (1940)
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Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane and Erskine Sanford in Citizen Kane (1941)
Year Title Role Notes
1938 Too Much Johnson Frederic Short[48]
1940 Pop Always Pays Hayes [49]
1940 Citizen Kane trailer Himself, Herbert Carter Short[50]
1941 Andy Hardy's Private Secretary Mr. Bossiny [49]
1941 Citizen Kane Herbert Carter [49]
1941 Appointment for Love Hastings' butler [49]
1942 The Wife Takes a Flyer Jan [49]
1942 The Magnificent Ambersons Roger Bronson [49]
1943 Jane Eyre Mr. Briggs [49]
1944 Uncertain Glory Drover [49]
1944 Ministry of Fear Mr. Rennit [49]
1944 Mr. Skeffington Dr. Fawcette [49]
1945 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Undertaker [49]
1945 Girls of the Big House Professor O'Neill [49]
1945 The Crimson Canary Pawnbroker [49]
1945 Spellbound Dr. Galt [49]
1946 From This Day Forward Higgler [49]
1946 Without Reservations Tim [49]
1946 The Stranger Party guest [45]:197
1946 Crack-Up Barton [49]
1946 Angel on My Shoulder Minister [49]
1946 The Best Years of Our Lives Bullard [49]
1947 Possessed Dr. Max Sherman [49]
1947 Mourning Becomes Electra Josiah Borden [49]
1947 The Lady from Shanghai Judge [49]
1948 The Voice of the Turtle Storekeeper [49]
1948 You Were Meant for Me Dr. Smith [49]
1948 Letter from an Unknown Woman Porter [49]
1948 Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven Dr. Danson [49]
1948 Wake of the Red Witch Dokter Van Arken [49]
1948 Macbeth Duncan [49]
1948 Kidnapped Rankeillor [49]
1949 Your Show Time (TV) "The Invisible Wound"[51][52]
1949 Impact Dr. Bender [49]
1949 Night Unto Night Dr. Altheim [49]
1950 Sierra Judge Prentiss [49]
1951 The Company She Keeps Professor [49]
1952 My Son John Professor [49]

Radio credits

Date Title Role Notes
July 25, 1938 The Mercury Theatre on the Air The President "A Tale of Two Cities"[46]:344[53]:51
September 5, 1938 The Mercury Theatre on the Air Secretary "The Man Who Was Thursday"[46]:345[53]:51
December 24, 1939 The Campbell Playhouse "A Christmas Carol"[46]:356
March 17, 1940 The Campbell Playhouse "Huckleberry Finn"[46]:359
April 6, 1941 The Free Company Colonel Egenhorn "His Honor, the Mayor"[45]:113–115[54][55]
October 6, 1941 Orson Welles Show [46]:367
October 20, 1941 Orson Welles Show [46]:367
December 22, 1941 Orson Welles Show [46]:368

References

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