Erskine Sanford

{{Infobox person

| name = Erskine Sanford

| image = Erskine-Sanford-1929.jpg

| imagesize =

| caption = Erskine Sanford in Porgy (1928–1930)

| birth_date = {{birth date|1885|11|19}}

| birth_place = Trinidad, Colorado, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1969|07|07|1885|11|19}}

| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 1904–1952

| spouse = Fanny Reynolds Howe
({{abbr|m.|married}} 1918; 19??){{cite book |author= |title=Social Register, Summer 1918 |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_pBQJAQAAIAAJ |quote=Fanny Reynolds Howe Sanford.|location=New York City |publisher=Social Register Association |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_pBQJAQAAIAAJ/page/n502 479] |date=1918 |oclc=145379781 }}

| children = 2Ancestry.com. New York, State Census, 1925 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Retrieved 2016-04-02.

}}

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.{{cite book|last1=Welles|first1=Orson|last2=Estrin|first2=Mark W.|title=Orson Welles: interviews|year=2002|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|isbn=1-57806-209-8|page=1}}

Biography

Erskine Sanford was born in Trinidad, Colorado, and was educated at the Horace Mann School in New York City.{{cite news |date=April 16, 1922 |title=Who's Who in 'Mr. Pim Passes By' at Majestic|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/29165324|newspaper=The Journal Gazette|location=Fort Wayne, Indiana|access-date=2016-04-01}} Beginning his acting career with Minnie Maddern Fiske's company, he made his professional debut in Leah Kleschna.{{cite news|author=Staff|date=December 29, 1929 |title='Porgy' Lead Has Played Very Often for Theater Guild|newspaper=The Capital Times|page=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.{{cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/production/native-son-st-james-theatre-vault-0000004235|title=Who's Who in the Cast|publisher=Playbill for Native Son|date=April 13, 1941|accessdate=2014-10-29}}{{Rp|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.{{cite web|url=http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/3324/Heartbreak-House |title=Who's Who in the Cast|date=May 2, 1938|website=Heartbreak House |publisher=Playbill|accessdate=2016-04-01}}

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,{{cite news|date=May 4, 1941|title=Ten Little Winged Mercuries|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F0DE1D71E3DE33BBC4C53DFB366838A659EDE|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=2016-03-30}} 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.{{Rp|351}}

In 1941, Sanford married psychiatric nursing pioneer Adele Poston,{{citation | title = Hollywood's Movie Radio Guide | date = December 6–12, 1941}}Marriage License, November 4, 1941 County of Coconino, Flagstaff, Arizona (Houston Family Archives). but the marriage lasted only a short time.

Theatre credits

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| caption1 = Erskine Sanford, Dudley Digges and Laura Hope Crews in the Theatre Guild production of A.A. Milne's Mr. Pim Passes By (1921)

| image2 =Too-Much-Johnson-Theatre-1938.jpg

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| caption2 = 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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class="wikitable"
Date ! Title ! Role ! Notes
February 11, 1916 \| Playlets \| \| Belasco Theatre, New York City{{cite news \|author= \|title=Theatrical Notes \|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B05E6D9153AE633A25753C1A9649C946796D6CF \|newspaper=The New York Times \|date=February 10, 1916 \|access-date=2016-03-30 }}
November 14 – December 30, 1916 \| Gertrude Kingston and a Visiting Company \| \| Neighborhood Playhouse and Maxine Elliott Theatre, New York City{{cite web\|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/7771 \|title=Gertrude Kingston and a Visiting Company \|publisher=Internet Broadway Database \|accessdate=2016-03-30}}
October 13, 1919 – January 1920 \| The Faithful \| Hara, Honzo \| Garrick Theatre, New York City{{cite web\|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/6705 \|title=The Faithful \|publisher=Internet Broadway Database \|accessdate=2016-03-30}} Theatre Guild production{{cite news \|author= \|title=Theatre Guild to Give 'The Faithful' \|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A02E2DB123AE03ABC4850DFBF668382609EDE \|newspaper=The New York Times \|date=September 30, 1919 \|access-date=2016-03-30 }}
November 25, 1919 – February 1920 \| The Rise of Silas Lapham \| Mr. Sewell \| Garrick Theatre, New York City{{cite web\|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/6728 \|title=The Rise of Silas Lapham \|publisher=Internet Broadway Database \|accessdate=2016-03-30}}
January 15 – March 1920 \| The Power of Darkness \| Mitrich \| Garrick Theatre, New York City{{cite web\|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/6760 \|title=The Power of Darkness \|publisher=Internet Broadway Database \|accessdate=2016-03-30}}
February 23 – September 1920 \| Jane Clegg \| Mr. Morrison \| Garrick Theatre, New York City{{cite web\|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/6776 \|title=Jane Clegg \|publisher=Internet Broadway Database \|accessdate=2016-03-30}}
September 4 – October 1920 \| The Treasure \| The President of the Community \| Garrick Theatre, New York City{{cite web\|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/8996 \|title=The Treasure \|publisher=Internet Broadway Database \|accessdate=2016-03-30}}
November 10, 1920 – February 26, 1921 \| Heartbreak House \| Mazzini Dunn \| Garrick Theatre, New York City{{cite web\|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/8999 \|title=Heartbreak House \|publisher=Internet Broadway Database \|accessdate=2016-03-30}}
February 28 – June 1921 \| Mr. Pim Passes By \| Carraway Pim \| Garrick Theatre, New York City{{cite web\|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/9039 \|title=Mr. Pim Passes By \|publisher=Internet Broadway Database \|accessdate=2016-03-30}}
April 20 – June 1921 \| Liliom \| Captain, First Policeman of the Beyond \| Garrick Theatre, New York City{{cite web\|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/9062 \|title=Liliom \|publisher=Internet Broadway Database \|accessdate=2016-03-30}}
December 20, 1922 – February 1923 \| Johannes Kreisler \| Theodor \| Apollo Theatre, New York City{{cite web\|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/9170 \|title=Johannes Kreisler \|publisher=Internet Broadway Database \|accessdate=2016-03-30}}
March 26 – April 1923 \| Sandro Botticelli \| Fra Filippo Lippi \| Provincetown Playhouse, New York City{{cite web\|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/8908 \|title=Sandro Botticelli \|publisher=Internet Broadway Database \|accessdate=2016-03-30}}
November 19, 1923 – January 1924 \| The Failures \| The Musician \| Garrick Theatre, New York City{{cite web\|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/9321 \|title=The Failures \|publisher=Internet Broadway Database \|accessdate=2016-03-30}}
April 14 – June 1924 \| Man and the Masses \| Third Banker, A Priest \| Garrick Theatre, New York City{{cite web\|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/9503 \|title=Man and the Masses \|publisher=Internet Broadway Database \|accessdate=2016-03-30}}
October 19 – December 1925 \| The Glass Slipper \| Captain Gal, Police Sergeant \| Guild Theatre, New York City{{cite web\|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/6927 \|title=The Glass Slipper \|publisher=Internet Broadway Database \|accessdate=2016-03-30}}
January 25 – March 1926 \| The Goat Song \| Starsina, Priest \| Guild Theatre, New York City{{cite web\|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/9669 \|title=The Goat Song \|publisher=Internet Broadway Database \|accessdate=2016-03-30}}
March 23 – April 1926 \| What's the Big Idea \| Peter Clausen \| Bijou Theatre, New York City{{cite web\|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/10034 \|title=What's the Big Idea \|publisher=Internet Broadway Database \|accessdate=2016-03-30}}
October 11 – November 1926 \| Juarez and Maximilian \| Lawyer Siliceo, Jose Rincon Gallardo \| Guild Theatre, New York City{{cite web\|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/7864 \|title=Juarez and Maximilian \|publisher=Internet Broadway Database \|accessdate=2016-03-30}}
November 18 – December 1926 \| The Witch \| Master Laurentius \| Greenwich Village Theatre, New York City{{cite web\|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/10158 \|title=The Witch \|publisher=Internet Broadway Database \|accessdate=2016-03-30}}
February 24 – March 1927 \| Puppets of Passion \| Attendant \| Theatre Masque, New York City{{cite web\|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/10246 \|title=Puppets of Passion \|publisher=Internet Broadway Database \|accessdate=2016-03-30}}
April 18 – August 1927 \| Mr. Pim Passes By \| Carraway Pim \| Garrick Theatre, New York City{{cite web\|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/10283 \|title=Mr. Pim Passes By \|publisher=Internet Broadway Database \|accessdate=2016-03-30}}
1928 – August 1928 \| Porgy \| Alan Archdale \| Republic Theatre, New York CityRepublic Theatre, The New York Magazine Program. Porgy, week beginning July 2, 1928.
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{{cite web\|url=http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20736 \|title=Rose McClendon Scrapbooks \|publisher=Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library \|accessdate=2016-03-31}}
September 13 – October 1929 \| Porgy \| Alan Archdale \| Martin Beck Theatre, New York City{{cite web\|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/9424 \|title=Porgy \|publisher=Internet Broadway Database \|accessdate=2016-03-30}}
October 14, 1929 – January 1930 \| Porgy \| Alan Archdale \| National tour{{cite news \|author= \|date=October 12, 1929 \|title='Porgy' Returns to Fords, Baltimore, After Scoring Triumph in London \|newspaper=Denton Journal \|location=Denton, Maryland \|page=4 }}{{cite news \|author= \|date=January 5, 1930 \|title=Players in 'Porgy', Which Comes to Garrick Monday \|newspaper=The Capital Times \|page=6 }}
October 27 – December 1930 \| Roar China \| Mr. Tourist \| Martin Beck Theatre, New York City{{cite web\|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/11246 \|title=Roar China \|publisher=Internet Broadway Database \|accessdate=2016-04-01}}
October 26, 1931 – March 1932 \| Mourning Becomes Electra \| Dr. Joseph Blake, Abner Small \| Guild Theatre, New York City{{cite web\|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/11433 \|title=Mourning Becomes Electra \|publisher=Internet Broadway Database \|accessdate=2016-04-01}}
February 21 – March 1933 \| American Dream \| Murdoch \| Guild Theatre, New York City{{cite web\|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/11723 \|title=American Dream \|publisher=Internet Broadway Database \|accessdate=2016-04-01}}
February 21 – April 1934 \| They Shall Not Die \| Sheriff Nelson \| Royale Theatre, New York City{{cite web\|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/11840 \|title=They Shall Not Die \|publisher=Internet Broadway Database \|accessdate=2016-04-01}}
December 10, 1934 – January 1935 \| Valley Forge \| Mr. Folsom \| Guild Theatre, New York City{{cite web\|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/10432 \|title=Valley Forge \|publisher=Internet Broadway Database \|accessdate=2016-04-01}}
October 11 – October 1935 \| Sweet Mystery of Life \| Doctor Warren \| Shubert Theatre, New York City{{cite web\|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/11999 \|title=Sweet Mystery of Life \|publisher=Internet Broadway Database \|accessdate=2016-04-01}}
April 29 – June 11, 1938 \| Heartbreak House \| Mazzini Dunn \| Mercury Theatre, New York City{{cite web\|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/12345 \|title=Heartbreak House \|publisher=Internet Broadway Database \|accessdate=2016-04-01}}{{cite book \|last=Wood \|first=Bret \|author-link=Bret Wood \|title=Orson Welles: A Bio-Bibliography \|publisher=Greenwood Press \|location=Westport, Connecticut \|date=1990 \|isbn=0-313-26538-0}}{{Rp\|47}}
August 16–29, 1938 \| Too Much Johnson \| Frederic \| Stony Creek Theatre, Stony Creek, Connecticut{{Rp\|50}}
February 27 – March 1939 \| Five Kings (Part One) \| Lord Chief Justice \| Colonial Theatre, Boston{{Rp\|54}}{{Rp\|350–351}}
March 13 – March 1939 \| Five Kings (Part One) \| Lord Chief Justice \| National Theatre, Washington, D.C.{{Rp\|351}}
March 20–25, 1939 \| Five Kings (Part One) \| Lord Chief Justice \| Chestnut Street Opera House, Philadelphia{{cite book \|last=Houseman \|first=John \|author-link=John Houseman \|title=Run-Through: A Memoir \|url=https://archive.org/details/runthroughmemoir00hous \|url-access=registration \|publisher=Simon & Schuster \|location=New York \|date=1972 \|isbn=0-671-21034-3}}{{Rp\|428}}{{cite book \|last1=Welles \|first1=Orson \|author-link1=Orson Welles \|last2=Bogdanovich \|first2=Peter \|author-link2=Peter Bogdanovich \|last3=Rosenbaum \|first3=Jonathan \|author-link3=Jonathan Rosenbaum \|title=This is Orson Welles \|publisher=HarperCollins Publishers \|location=New York \|date=1992 \|isbn=0-06-016616-9}}{{Rp\|351}}
March 24 – June 28, 1941 \| Native Son \| Mr. Dalton \| St. James Theatre, New York City{{cite web\|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/1089 \|title=Native Son \|publisher=Internet Broadway Database \|accessdate=2016-04-01}}
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{{Rp\|52–53}}{{Rp\|401}}

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Date

! Title

! Role

! Notes

February 11, 1916

| Playlets

| Belasco Theatre, New York City{{cite news |author= |title=Theatrical Notes |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B05E6D9153AE633A25753C1A9649C946796D6CF |newspaper=The New York Times |date=February 10, 1916 |access-date=2016-03-30 }}

November 14 – December 30, 1916

| Gertrude Kingston and a Visiting Company

| Neighborhood Playhouse and Maxine Elliott Theatre, New York City{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/7771 |title=Gertrude Kingston and a Visiting Company |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |accessdate=2016-03-30}}

October 13, 1919 – January 1920

| The Faithful

| Hara, Honzo

| Garrick Theatre, New York City{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/6705 |title=The Faithful |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |accessdate=2016-03-30}}
Theatre Guild production{{cite news |author= |title=Theatre Guild to Give 'The Faithful' |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A02E2DB123AE03ABC4850DFBF668382609EDE |newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 30, 1919 |access-date=2016-03-30 }}

November 25, 1919 – February 1920

| The Rise of Silas Lapham

| Mr. Sewell

| Garrick Theatre, New York City{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/6728 |title=The Rise of Silas Lapham |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |accessdate=2016-03-30}}

January 15 – March 1920

| The Power of Darkness

| Mitrich

| Garrick Theatre, New York City{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/6760 |title=The Power of Darkness |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |accessdate=2016-03-30}}

February 23 – September 1920

| Jane Clegg

| Mr. Morrison

| Garrick Theatre, New York City{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/6776 |title=Jane Clegg |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |accessdate=2016-03-30}}

September 4 – October 1920

| The Treasure

| The President of the Community

| Garrick Theatre, New York City{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/8996 |title=The Treasure |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |accessdate=2016-03-30}}

November 10, 1920 – February 26, 1921

| Heartbreak House

| Mazzini Dunn

| Garrick Theatre, New York City{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/8999 |title=Heartbreak House |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |accessdate=2016-03-30}}

February 28 – June 1921

| Mr. Pim Passes By

| Carraway Pim

| Garrick Theatre, New York City{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/9039 |title=Mr. Pim Passes By |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |accessdate=2016-03-30}}

April 20 – June 1921

| Liliom

| Captain, First Policeman of the Beyond

| Garrick Theatre, New York City{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/9062 |title=Liliom |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |accessdate=2016-03-30}}

December 20, 1922 – February 1923

| Johannes Kreisler

| Theodor

| Apollo Theatre, New York City{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/9170 |title=Johannes Kreisler |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |accessdate=2016-03-30}}

March 26 – April 1923

| Sandro Botticelli

| Fra Filippo Lippi

| Provincetown Playhouse, New York City{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/8908 |title=Sandro Botticelli |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |accessdate=2016-03-30}}

November 19, 1923 – January 1924

| The Failures

| The Musician

| Garrick Theatre, New York City{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/9321 |title=The Failures |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |accessdate=2016-03-30}}

April 14 – June 1924

| Man and the Masses

| Third Banker, A Priest

| Garrick Theatre, New York City{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/9503 |title=Man and the Masses |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |accessdate=2016-03-30}}

October 19 – December 1925

| The Glass Slipper

| Captain Gal, Police Sergeant

| Guild Theatre, New York City{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/6927 |title=The Glass Slipper |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |accessdate=2016-03-30}}

January 25 – March 1926

| The Goat Song

| Starsina, Priest

| Guild Theatre, New York City{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/9669 |title=The Goat Song |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |accessdate=2016-03-30}}

March 23 – April 1926

| What's the Big Idea

| Peter Clausen

| Bijou Theatre, New York City{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/10034 |title=What's the Big Idea |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |accessdate=2016-03-30}}

October 11 – November 1926

| Juarez and Maximilian

| Lawyer Siliceo, Jose Rincon Gallardo

| Guild Theatre, New York City{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/7864 |title=Juarez and Maximilian |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |accessdate=2016-03-30}}

November 18 – December 1926

| The Witch

| Master Laurentius

| Greenwich Village Theatre, New York City{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/10158 |title=The Witch |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |accessdate=2016-03-30}}

February 24 – March 1927

| Puppets of Passion

| Attendant

| Theatre Masque, New York City{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/10246 |title=Puppets of Passion |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |accessdate=2016-03-30}}

April 18 – August 1927

| Mr. Pim Passes By

| Carraway Pim

| Garrick Theatre, New York City{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/10283 |title=Mr. Pim Passes By |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |accessdate=2016-03-30}}

1928 – August 1928

| Porgy

| Alan Archdale

| Republic Theatre, New York CityRepublic Theatre, The New York Magazine Program. Porgy, week beginning July 2, 1928.

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{{cite web|url=http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20736 |title=Rose McClendon Scrapbooks |publisher=Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library |accessdate=2016-03-31}}

September 13 – October 1929

| Porgy

| Alan Archdale

| Martin Beck Theatre, New York City{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/9424 |title=Porgy |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |accessdate=2016-03-30}}

October 14, 1929 – January 1930

| Porgy

| Alan Archdale

| National tour{{cite news |author= |date=October 12, 1929 |title='Porgy' Returns to Fords, Baltimore, After Scoring Triumph in London |newspaper=Denton Journal |location=Denton, Maryland |page=4 }}{{cite news |author= |date=January 5, 1930 |title=Players in 'Porgy', Which Comes to Garrick Monday |newspaper=The Capital Times |page=6 }}

October 27 – December 1930

| Roar China

| Mr. Tourist

| Martin Beck Theatre, New York City{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/11246 |title=Roar China |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |accessdate=2016-04-01}}

October 26, 1931 – March 1932

| Mourning Becomes Electra

| Dr. Joseph Blake, Abner Small

| Guild Theatre, New York City{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/11433 |title=Mourning Becomes Electra |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |accessdate=2016-04-01}}

February 21 – March 1933

| American Dream

| Murdoch

| Guild Theatre, New York City{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/11723 |title=American Dream |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |accessdate=2016-04-01}}

February 21 – April 1934

| They Shall Not Die

| Sheriff Nelson

| Royale Theatre, New York City{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/11840 |title=They Shall Not Die |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |accessdate=2016-04-01}}

December 10, 1934 – January 1935

| Valley Forge

| Mr. Folsom

| Guild Theatre, New York City{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/10432 |title=Valley Forge |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |accessdate=2016-04-01}}

October 11 – October 1935

| Sweet Mystery of Life

| Doctor Warren

| Shubert Theatre, New York City{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/11999 |title=Sweet Mystery of Life |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |accessdate=2016-04-01}}

April 29 – June 11, 1938

| Heartbreak House

| Mazzini Dunn

| Mercury Theatre, New York City{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/12345 |title=Heartbreak House |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |accessdate=2016-04-01}}{{cite book |last=Wood |first=Bret |author-link=Bret Wood |title=Orson Welles: A Bio-Bibliography |publisher=Greenwood Press |location=Westport, Connecticut |date=1990 |isbn=0-313-26538-0}}{{Rp|47}}

August 16–29, 1938

| Too Much Johnson

| Frederic

| Stony Creek Theatre, Stony Creek, Connecticut{{Rp|50}}

February 27 – March 1939

| Five Kings (Part One)

| Lord Chief Justice

| Colonial Theatre, Boston{{Rp|54}}{{Rp|350–351}}

March 13 – March 1939

| Five Kings (Part One)

| Lord Chief Justice

| National Theatre, Washington, D.C.{{Rp|351}}

March 20–25, 1939

| Five Kings (Part One)

| Lord Chief Justice

| Chestnut Street Opera House, Philadelphia{{cite book |last=Houseman |first=John |author-link=John Houseman |title=Run-Through: A Memoir |url=https://archive.org/details/runthroughmemoir00hous |url-access=registration |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |date=1972 |isbn=0-671-21034-3}}{{Rp|428}}{{cite book |last1=Welles |first1=Orson |author-link1=Orson Welles |last2=Bogdanovich |first2=Peter |author-link2=Peter Bogdanovich |last3=Rosenbaum |first3=Jonathan |author-link3=Jonathan Rosenbaum |title=This is Orson Welles |publisher=HarperCollins Publishers |location=New York |date=1992 |isbn=0-06-016616-9}}{{Rp|351}}

March 24 – June 28, 1941

| Native Son

| Mr. Dalton

| St. James Theatre, New York City{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/1089 |title=Native Son |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |accessdate=2016-04-01}}

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{{Rp|52–53}}{{Rp|401}}

Filmography

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| caption1 = Erskine Sanford in the Citizen Kane trailer (1940)

| image2 =Citizen Kane-2.JPG

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| caption2 = Erskine Sanford as Herbert Carter in the Citizen Kane trailer (1940)

| image3 =Citizen-Kane-Cotten-Welles-Sloane-Sanford.jpg

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| caption3 = Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane and Erskine Sanford in Citizen Kane (1941)

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class="wikitable sortable"
Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" \| Notes
1938 \| Too Much Johnson \| Frederic \| {{cite web \|url=http://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/too-much-johnson-work-print \|title=Too Much Johnson Work Print \|publisher=National Film Preservation Foundation \|access-date=2016-04-01 \|archive-date=September 20, 2016 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920102517/http://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/too-much-johnson-work-print \|url-status=dead }}
1940 \| Pop Always Pays \| Hayes \| {{cite web\|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/SearchResult.aspx?s=&retailCheck=&Type=PN&CatID=DATABIN_CAST&ID=49010&AN_ID=&searchedFor=Erskine_Sanford_ \|title=Erkine Sanford \|website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films \|publisher=American Film Institute \|accessdate=2016-03-29}}
1940 \| Citizen Kane trailer \| Himself, Herbert Carter \| Short{{cite journal \|last=Salmon \|first=Paul \|date=Autumn 2006 \|title='The People Will Think … What I Tell Them to Think': Orson Welles and the Trailer for Citizen Kane \|url=http://www.filmstudies.ca/journal/cjfs/archives/articles/salmon-welles-citizen-kane-trailer \|journal=Canadian Journal of Film Studies \|publisher=Carleton University \|volume=15 \|issue=2 \|pages=96–113 \|doi=10.3138/cjfs.15.2.96 \|access-date=2016-03-30 }}
1941 \| Andy Hardy's Private Secretary \| Mr. Bossiny \| Uncredited
1941 \| Citizen Kane \| Herbert Carter / Screening Room Reporter \|
1941 \| Appointment for Love \| Hastings's butler \| Uncredited
1942 \| {{sortname\|The\|Wife Takes a Flyer}} \| Jan \|
1942 \| {{sortname\|The\|Magnificent Ambersons\|The Magnificent Ambersons (film)}} \| Roger Bronson \|
1943 \| Jane Eyre \| Mr. Briggs \| Uncredited
1944 \| Uncertain Glory \| Drover \| Uncredited
1944 \| Mr. Skeffington \| Dr. Fawcette \|
1944 \| Enemy of Women \| Levine \| Uncredited
1944 \| Ministry of Fear \| George Rennit \|
1945 \| {{sortname\|A\|Tree Grows in Brooklyn\|A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945 film)}} \| Undertaker \| Uncredited
1945 \| Spellbound \| Dr. Galt \| Uncredited
1945 \| Girls of the Big House \| Professor O'Neill \|
1946 \| From This Day Forward \| Higgler \|
1946 \| Without Reservations \| Timothy Helgelander \| Uncredited
1946 \| {{sortname\|The\|Stranger\|The Stranger (1946 film)}} \| Party guest \| Uncredited{{Rp\|197}}
1946 \| Crack-Up \| Barton \|
1946 \| Angel on My Shoulder \| Minister \|
1946 \| {{sortname\|The\|Best Years of Our Lives}} \| Bullard \|
1947 \| Possessed \| Dr. Max Sherman \|
1947 \| Mourning Becomes Electra \| Josiah Borden \|
1947 \| {{sortname\|The\|Lady from Shanghai}} \| Judge \|
1948 \| {{sortname\|The\|Voice of the Turtle\|The Voice of the Turtle (film)}} \| Storekeeper \|
1948 \| You Were Meant for Me \| Dr. Frank R. Smith \| Uncredited
1948 \| Letter from an Unknown Woman \| Porter \|
1948 \| Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven \| Dr. Danson \| Uncredited
1948 \| They Live by Night \| Doctor \| Uncredited
1948 \| Macbeth \| Duncan \|
1948 \| Kidnapped \| Rankeillor \|
1948 \| Wake of the Red Witch \| Dokter Van Arken \|
1949 \| Your Show Time (TV) \| \| "The Invisible Wound"{{cite web \|url=http://ctva.biz/US/Anthology/YourShowTime.htm \|title=Your Show Time \|publisher=Classic TV Archive \|access-date=2016-04-01}}{{cite news \|last=Vernon \|first=Terry \|date=May 16, 1953 \|title=Tele-Vues \|newspaper=The Independent\|location=Long Beach, California \|quote=… in 'The Invisible Wound', KTLA at 9 p.m. with Reginald Denny, Maria Palmer and Erskine Sanford. }}
1949 \| Impact \| Dr. Henry Bender \|
1949 \| Night Unto Night \| Dr. Gallen Altheim \|
1949 \| The Woman on Pier 13 \| Desk Clerk at Christine's Apartment \| Uncredited
1950 \| Sierra \| Judge Prentiss \|
1951 \| {{sortname\|The\|Company She Keeps}} \| Planetarium Guide \| Uncredited
1952 \| My Son John \| Professor \| (scenes deleted)

class="wikitable sortable"

Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

1938

| Too Much Johnson

| Frederic

| {{cite web |url=http://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/too-much-johnson-work-print |title=Too Much Johnson Work Print |publisher=National Film Preservation Foundation |access-date=2016-04-01 |archive-date=September 20, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920102517/http://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/too-much-johnson-work-print |url-status=dead }}

1940

| Pop Always Pays

| Hayes

| {{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/SearchResult.aspx?s=&retailCheck=&Type=PN&CatID=DATABIN_CAST&ID=49010&AN_ID=&searchedFor=Erskine_Sanford_ |title=Erkine Sanford |website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films |publisher=American Film Institute |accessdate=2016-03-29}}

1940

| Citizen Kane trailer

| Himself, Herbert Carter

| Short{{cite journal |last=Salmon |first=Paul |date=Autumn 2006 |title='The People Will Think … What I Tell Them to Think': Orson Welles and the Trailer for Citizen Kane |url=http://www.filmstudies.ca/journal/cjfs/archives/articles/salmon-welles-citizen-kane-trailer |journal=Canadian Journal of Film Studies |publisher=Carleton University |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=96–113 |doi=10.3138/cjfs.15.2.96 |access-date=2016-03-30 }}

1941

| Andy Hardy's Private Secretary

| Mr. Bossiny

| Uncredited

1941

| Citizen Kane

| Herbert Carter / Screening Room Reporter

1941

| Appointment for Love

| Hastings's butler

| Uncredited

1942

| {{sortname|The|Wife Takes a Flyer}}

| Jan

1942

| {{sortname|The|Magnificent Ambersons|The Magnificent Ambersons (film)}}

| Roger Bronson

1943

| Jane Eyre

| Mr. Briggs

| Uncredited

1944

| Uncertain Glory

| Drover

| Uncredited

1944

| Mr. Skeffington

| Dr. Fawcette

1944

| Enemy of Women

| Levine

| Uncredited

1944

| Ministry of Fear

| George Rennit

1945

| {{sortname|A|Tree Grows in Brooklyn|A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945 film)}}

| Undertaker

| Uncredited

1945

| Spellbound

| Dr. Galt

| Uncredited

1945

| Girls of the Big House

| Professor O'Neill

1946

| From This Day Forward

| Higgler

1946

| Without Reservations

| Timothy Helgelander

| Uncredited

1946

| {{sortname|The|Stranger|The Stranger (1946 film)}}

| Party guest

| Uncredited{{Rp|197}}

1946

| Crack-Up

| Barton

1946

| Angel on My Shoulder

| Minister

1946

| {{sortname|The|Best Years of Our Lives}}

| Bullard

1947

| Possessed

| Dr. Max Sherman

1947

| Mourning Becomes Electra

| Josiah Borden

1947

| {{sortname|The|Lady from Shanghai}}

| Judge

1948

| {{sortname|The|Voice of the Turtle|The Voice of the Turtle (film)}}

| Storekeeper

1948

| You Were Meant for Me

| Dr. Frank R. Smith

| Uncredited

1948

| Letter from an Unknown Woman

| Porter

1948

| Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven

| Dr. Danson

| Uncredited

1948

| They Live by Night

| Doctor

| Uncredited

1948

| Macbeth

| Duncan

1948

| Kidnapped

| Rankeillor

1948

| Wake of the Red Witch

| Dokter Van Arken

1949

| Your Show Time (TV)

| "The Invisible Wound"{{cite web |url=http://ctva.biz/US/Anthology/YourShowTime.htm |title=Your Show Time |publisher=Classic TV Archive |access-date=2016-04-01}}{{cite news |last=Vernon |first=Terry |date=May 16, 1953 |title=Tele-Vues |newspaper=The Independent|location=Long Beach, California |quote=… in 'The Invisible Wound', KTLA at 9 p.m. with Reginald Denny, Maria Palmer and Erskine Sanford. }}

1949

| Impact

| Dr. Henry Bender

1949

| Night Unto Night

| Dr. Gallen Altheim

1949

| The Woman on Pier 13

| Desk Clerk at Christine's Apartment

| Uncredited

1950

| Sierra

| Judge Prentiss

1951

| {{sortname|The|Company She Keeps}}

| Planetarium Guide

| Uncredited

1952

| My Son John

| Professor

| (scenes deleted)

Radio credits

class="wikitable"
Date ! Title ! Role ! Notes
July 25, 1938 \| The Mercury Theatre on the Air \| The President \| "A Tale of Two Cities"{{Rp\|344}}Orson Welles on the Air: The Radio Years. New York: The Museum of Broadcasting, catalogue for exhibition October 28–December 3, 1988.{{Rp\|51}}
September 5, 1938 \| The Mercury Theatre on the Air \| Secretary \| "The Man Who Was Thursday"{{Rp\|345}}{{Rp\|51}}
December 24, 1939 \| The Campbell Playhouse \| \| "A Christmas Carol"{{Rp\|356}}
March 17, 1940 \| The Campbell Playhouse \| \| "Huckleberry Finn"{{Rp\|359}}
April 6, 1941 \| The Free Company \| Colonel Egenhorn \| "His Honor, the Mayor"{{Rp\|113–115}}{{cite book \|last=Welles \|first=Orson \|date=1941 \|title=His Honor, The Mayor \|location=New York \|publisher=The Free Company \|page=7 \|oclc=5435074 }}{{cite web \|url=https://archive.org/details/otr_freecompany \|title=His Honor, the Mayor \|date=April 6, 1941 \|publisher=Internet Archive \|access-date=2016-03-30}}
October 6, 1941 \| The Orson Welles Show \| \| {{Rp\|367}}
October 20, 1941 \| The Orson Welles Show \| \| {{Rp\|367}}
December 22, 1941 \| The Orson Welles Show \| \| {{Rp\|368}}

class="wikitable"

Date

! Title

! Role

! Notes

July 25, 1938

| The Mercury Theatre on the Air

| The President

| "A Tale of Two Cities"{{Rp|344}}Orson Welles on the Air: The Radio Years. New York: The Museum of Broadcasting, catalogue for exhibition October 28–December 3, 1988.{{Rp|51}}

September 5, 1938

| The Mercury Theatre on the Air

| Secretary

| "The Man Who Was Thursday"{{Rp|345}}{{Rp|51}}

December 24, 1939

| The Campbell Playhouse

| "A Christmas Carol"{{Rp|356}}

March 17, 1940

| The Campbell Playhouse

| "Huckleberry Finn"{{Rp|359}}

April 6, 1941

| The Free Company

| Colonel Egenhorn

| "His Honor, the Mayor"{{Rp|113–115}}{{cite book |last=Welles |first=Orson |date=1941 |title=His Honor, The Mayor |location=New York |publisher=The Free Company |page=7 |oclc=5435074 }}{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/otr_freecompany |title=His Honor, the Mayor |date=April 6, 1941 |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=2016-03-30}}

October 6, 1941

| The Orson Welles Show

| {{Rp|367}}

October 20, 1941

| The Orson Welles Show

| {{Rp|367}}

December 22, 1941

| The Orson Welles Show

| {{Rp|368}}

References

External links

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[https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-a036-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 Photograph of Erskine Sanford as Alan Archdale] in Porgy (1927) — New York Public Library

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