Erskine Sanford
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![]() Erskine Sanford in Porgy (1928–1930) | |
Born | Trinidad, Colorado, U.S. | November 19, 1885
Died | July 7, 1969 Los Angeles, California, U.S. | (aged 83)
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1904–1952 |
Spouse(s) | Fanny Reynolds Howe (m. 1918; 19??) [1] |
Children | 2[2] |
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]
Biography
[edit]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
[edit]Date | Title | Role | Notes |
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February 11, 1916 | Playlets | Belasco Theatre, New York City[12] | |
November 14 – December 30, 1916 | Gertrude Kingston and a Visiting Company | Neighborhood Playhouse and Maxine Elliott Theatre, New York City[13] | |
October 13, 1919 – January 1920 | The Faithful | Hara, Honzo | Garrick Theatre, New York City[14] Theatre Guild production[15] |
November 25, 1919 – February 1920 | The Rise of Silas Lapham | Mr. Sewell | Garrick Theatre, New York City[16] |
January 15 – March 1920 | The Power of Darkness | Mitrich | Garrick Theatre, New York City[17] |
February 23 – September 1920 | Jane Clegg | Mr. Morrison | Garrick Theatre, New York City[18] |
September 4 – October 1920 | The Treasure | The President of the Community | Garrick Theatre, New York City[19] |
November 10, 1920 – February 26, 1921 | Heartbreak House | Mazzini Dunn | Garrick Theatre, New York City[20] |
February 28 – June 1921 | Mr. Pim Passes By | Carraway Pim | Garrick Theatre, New York City[21] |
April 20 – June 1921 | Liliom | Captain, First Policeman of the Beyond | Garrick Theatre, New York City[22] |
December 20, 1922 – February 1923 | Johannes Kreisler | Theodor | Apollo Theatre, New York City[23] |
March 26 – April 1923 | Sandro Botticelli | Fra Filippo Lippi | Provincetown Playhouse, New York City[24] |
November 19, 1923 – January 1924 | The Failures | The Musician | Garrick Theatre, New York City[25] |
April 14 – June 1924 | Man and the Masses | Third Banker, A Priest | Garrick Theatre, New York City[26] |
October 19 – December 1925 | The Glass Slipper | Captain Gal, Police Sergeant | Guild Theatre, New York City[27] |
January 25 – March 1926 | The Goat Song | Starsina, Priest | Guild Theatre, New York City[28] |
March 23 – April 1926 | What's the Big Idea | Peter Clausen | Bijou Theatre, New York City[29] |
October 11 – November 1926 | Juarez and Maximilian | Lawyer Siliceo, Jose Rincon Gallardo | Guild Theatre, New York City[30] |
November 18 – December 1926 | The Witch | Master Laurentius | Greenwich Village Theatre, New York City[31] |
February 24 – March 1927 | Puppets of Passion | Attendant | Theatre Masque, New York City[32] |
April 18 – August 1927 | Mr. Pim Passes By | Carraway Pim | Garrick Theatre, New York City[33] |
1928 – August 1928 | Porgy | Alan Archdale | Republic Theatre, New York City[34] |
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[35] |
September 13 – October 1929 | Porgy | Alan Archdale | Martin Beck Theatre, New York City[36] |
October 14, 1929 – January 1930 | Porgy | Alan Archdale | National tour[37][38] |
October 27 – December 1930 | Roar China | Mr. Tourist | Martin Beck Theatre, New York City[39] |
October 26, 1931 – March 1932 | Mourning Becomes Electra | Dr. Joseph Blake, Abner Small | Guild Theatre, New York City[40] |
February 21 – March 1933 | American Dream | Murdoch | Guild Theatre, New York City[41] |
February 21 – April 1934 | They Shall Not Die | Sheriff Nelson | Royale Theatre, New York City[42] |
December 10, 1934 – January 1935 | Valley Forge | Mr. Folsom | Guild Theatre, New York City[43] |
October 11 – October 1935 | Sweet Mystery of Life | Doctor Warren | Shubert Theatre, New York City[44] |
April 29 – June 11, 1938 | Heartbreak House | Mazzini Dunn | Mercury Theatre, New York City[45][46]: 47 |
August 16–29, 1938 | Too Much Johnson | Frederic | Stony Creek Theatre, Stony Creek, Connecticut[46]: 50 |
February 27 – March 1939 | Five Kings (Part One) | Lord Chief Justice | Colonial Theatre, Boston[46]: 54 [47]: 350–351 |
March 13 – March 1939 | Five Kings (Part One) | Lord Chief Justice | National Theatre, Washington, D.C.[47]: 351 |
March 20–25, 1939 | Five Kings (Part One) | Lord Chief Justice | Chestnut Street Opera House, Philadelphia[9]: 428 [47]: 351 |
March 24 – June 28, 1941 | Native Son | Mr. Dalton | St. James Theatre, New York City[48] |
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[46]: 52–53 [47]: 401 |
Filmography
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1938 | Too Much Johnson | Frederic | [49] |
1940 | Pop Always Pays | Hayes | [50] |
1940 | Citizen Kane trailer | Himself, Herbert Carter | Short[51] |
1941 | Andy Hardy's Private Secretary | Mr. Bossiny | Uncredited[50] |
1941 | Citizen Kane | Herbert Carter / Screening Room Reporter | [50] |
1941 | Appointment for Love | Hastings's butler | Uncredited[50] |
1942 | The Wife Takes a Flyer | Jan | [50] |
1942 | The Magnificent Ambersons | Roger Bronson | [50] |
1943 | Jane Eyre | Mr. Briggs | Uncredited[50] |
1944 | Uncertain Glory | Drover | Uncredited[50] |
1944 | Mr. Skeffington | Dr. Fawcette | [50] |
1944 | Enemy of Women | Levine | Uncredited |
1944 | Ministry of Fear | George Rennit | [50] |
1945 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Undertaker | Uncredited[50] |
1945 | Spellbound | Dr. Galt | Uncredited[50] |
1945 | Girls of the Big House | Professor O'Neill | [50] |
1946 | From This Day Forward | Higgler | [50] |
1946 | Without Reservations | Timothy Helgelander | Uncredited[50] |
1946 | The Stranger | Party guest | Uncredited[46]: 197 |
1946 | Crack-Up | Barton | [50] |
1946 | Angel on My Shoulder | Minister | [50] |
1946 | The Best Years of Our Lives | Bullard | [50] |
1947 | Possessed | Dr. Max Sherman | [50] |
1947 | Mourning Becomes Electra | Josiah Borden | [50] |
1947 | The Lady from Shanghai | Judge | [50] |
1948 | The Voice of the Turtle | Storekeeper | [50] |
1948 | You Were Meant for Me | Dr. Frank R. Smith | Uncredited[50] |
1948 | Letter from an Unknown Woman | Porter | [50] |
1948 | Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven | Dr. Danson | Uncredited[50] |
1948 | They Live by Night | Doctor | Uncredited |
1948 | Macbeth | Duncan | [50] |
1948 | Kidnapped | Rankeillor | [50] |
1948 | Wake of the Red Witch | Dokter Van Arken | [50] |
1949 | Your Show Time (TV) | "The Invisible Wound"[52][53] | |
1949 | Impact | Dr. Henry Bender | [50] |
1949 | Night Unto Night | Dr. Gallen Altheim | [50] |
1949 | The Woman on Pier 13 | Desk Clerk at Christine's Apartment | Uncredited |
1950 | Sierra | Judge Prentiss | [50] |
1951 | The Company She Keeps | Planetarium Guide | Uncredited[50] |
1952 | My Son John | Professor | (scenes deleted)[50] |
Radio credits
[edit]Date | Title | Role | Notes |
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July 25, 1938 | The Mercury Theatre on the Air | The President | "A Tale of Two Cities"[47]: 344 [54]: 51 |
September 5, 1938 | The Mercury Theatre on the Air | Secretary | "The Man Who Was Thursday"[47]: 345 [54]: 51 |
December 24, 1939 | The Campbell Playhouse | "A Christmas Carol"[47]: 356 | |
March 17, 1940 | The Campbell Playhouse | "Huckleberry Finn"[47]: 359 | |
April 6, 1941 | The Free Company | Colonel Egenhorn | "His Honor, the Mayor"[46]: 113–115 [55][56] |
October 6, 1941 | The Orson Welles Show | [47]: 367 | |
October 20, 1941 | The Orson Welles Show | [47]: 367 | |
December 22, 1941 | The Orson Welles Show | [47]: 368 |
References
[edit]- ^ Social Register, Summer 1918. New York City: Social Register Association. 1918. p. 479. OCLC 145379781.
Fanny Reynolds Howe Sanford.
- ^ Ancestry.com. New York, State Census, 1925 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Retrieved 2016-04-02.
- ^ Welles, Orson; Estrin, Mark W. (2002). Orson Welles: interviews. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 1. ISBN 1-57806-209-8.
- ^ "Who's Who in 'Mr. Pim Passes By' at Majestic". The Journal Gazette. Fort Wayne, Indiana. April 16, 1922. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
- ^ a b "Who's Who in the Cast". Playbill for Native Son. April 13, 1941. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
- ^ Staff (December 29, 1929). "'Porgy' Lead Has Played Very Often for Theater Guild". The Capital Times. p. 6.
- ^ "Who's Who in the Cast". Heartbreak House. Playbill. May 2, 1938. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
- ^ "Ten Little Winged Mercuries". The New York Times. May 4, 1941. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
- ^ a b Houseman, John (1972). Run-Through: A Memoir. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-21034-3.
- ^ Hollywood's Movie Radio Guide, December 6–12, 1941
- ^ Marriage License, November 4, 1941 County of Coconino, Flagstaff, Arizona (Houston Family Archives).
- ^ "Theatrical Notes". The New York Times. February 10, 1916. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
- ^ "Gertrude Kingston and a Visiting Company". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
- ^ "The Faithful". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
- ^ "Theatre Guild to Give 'The Faithful'". The New York Times. September 30, 1919. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
- ^ "The Rise of Silas Lapham". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
- ^ "The Power of Darkness". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
- ^ "Jane Clegg". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
- ^ "The Treasure". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
- ^ "Heartbreak House". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
- ^ "Mr. Pim Passes By". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
- ^ "Liliom". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
- ^ "Johannes Kreisler". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
- ^ "Sandro Botticelli". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
- ^ "The Failures". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
- ^ "Man and the Masses". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
- ^ "The Glass Slipper". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
- ^ "The Goat Song". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
- ^ "What's the Big Idea". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
- ^ "Juarez and Maximilian". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
- ^ "The Witch". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
- ^ "Puppets of Passion". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
- ^ "Mr. Pim Passes By". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
- ^ Republic Theatre, The New York Magazine Program. Porgy, week beginning July 2, 1928.
- ^ "Rose McClendon Scrapbooks". Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. Retrieved March 31, 2016.
- ^ "Porgy". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
- ^ "'Porgy' Returns to Fords, Baltimore, After Scoring Triumph in London". Denton Journal. Denton, Maryland. October 12, 1929. p. 4.
- ^ "Players in 'Porgy', Which Comes to Garrick Monday". The Capital Times. January 5, 1930. p. 6.
- ^ "Roar China". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
- ^ "Mourning Becomes Electra". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
- ^ "American Dream". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
- ^ "They Shall Not Die". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
- ^ "Valley Forge". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
- ^ "Sweet Mystery of Life". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
- ^ "Heartbreak House". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f Wood, Bret (1990). Orson Welles: A Bio-Bibliography. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-26538-0.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Welles, Orson; Bogdanovich, Peter; Rosenbaum, Jonathan (1992). This is Orson Welles. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 0-06-016616-9.
- ^ "Native Son". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
- ^ "Too Much Johnson Work Print". National Film Preservation Foundation. Archived from the original on September 20, 2016. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag "Erkine Sanford". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved March 29, 2016.
- ^ Salmon, Paul (Autumn 2006). "'The People Will Think … What I Tell Them to Think': Orson Welles and the Trailer for Citizen Kane". Canadian Journal of Film Studies. 15 (2). Carleton University: 96–113. doi:10.3138/cjfs.15.2.96. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
- ^ "Your Show Time". Classic TV Archive. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
- ^ Vernon, Terry (May 16, 1953). "Tele-Vues". The Independent. Long Beach, California.
… in 'The Invisible Wound', KTLA at 9 p.m. with Reginald Denny, Maria Palmer and Erskine Sanford.
- ^ a b Orson Welles on the Air: The Radio Years. New York: The Museum of Broadcasting, catalogue for exhibition October 28–December 3, 1988.
- ^ Welles, Orson (1941). His Honor, The Mayor. New York: The Free Company. p. 7. OCLC 5435074.
- ^ "His Honor, the Mayor". Internet Archive. April 6, 1941. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
External links
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png)
- Erskine Sanford at IMDb
- Erskine Sanford at the Internet Broadway Database
- Photograph of Erskine Sanford as Alan Archdale in Porgy (1927) — New York Public Library