Richard Erdman
Biography
Richard Erdman (June 1, 1925 - March 16, 2019) was an American film and television actor and director. In a career that has spanned seven decades, his best known roles are that of the barracks chief Hoffy in Stalag 17, and McNulty in the classic Twilight Zone episode "A Kind of a Stopwatch". In Tora Tora Tora he played Colonel Edward F. French, the officer who responded to the failure to transmit the warning to Pearl Harbor using Army radio to instead use commercial telegraph rather than using the Navy or FBI radio systems. Erdman appeared as the blackmailer, Arthur Binney, in the Perry Mason first season TV episode "The Case Of The Gilded Lily" aired May 24, 1958. In 1960, he co-starred with Tab Hunter in the short-lived The Tab Hunter Show on NBC, which aired opposite The Ed Sullivan Show on CBS and Lawman with John Russell on ABC. He was very funny when he appeared as a Broadway wardrobe man named Buck Brown on "The Dick Van Dyke Show". In 1962, Erdman had a recurring role as Klugie, the photographer, in the short-lived Nick Adams-John Larkin NBC series Saints and Sinners.
Movies (65)
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
2021
The Pagemaster
1994
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
Timeless Tales: The Emperor's New Clothes
1990
Jesse
1988
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
1988
Valet Girls
1987
Stewardess School
1986
My Town
1986
Tomboy
1985
Trancers
1984
The Secret World of Og
1983
Heidi's Song
1982
Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge
1981
Kate McShane
1975
Mr. Majestyk
1974
Mr. Majestyk
1974
Brothers O'Toole
1973
Visions...
1972
The Great Man's Whiskers
1972
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
Rascal
1969
Namu, the Killer Whale
1966
The Brass Bottle
1964
The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada
1963
Face of Fire
1959
Saddle the Wind
1958
The Rawhide Trail
1958
The Power and the Prize
1956
Anything Goes
1956
Bengazi
1955
Francis in the Navy
1955
The Steel Lady
1953
Mission Over Korea
1953
Stalag 17
1953
The Blue Gardenia
1953
The Happy Time
1952
Jumping Jacks
1952
The San Francisco Story
1952
Aladdin and His Lamp
1952
The Wild Blue Yonder
1951
The Stooge
1951
Cry Danger
1951
You're in the Navy Now
1951
The Men
1950
The Admiral Was a Lady
1950
Swiss Tour
1949
Easy Living
1949
The Time of Your Life
1948
Wild Harvest
1947
That Way with Women
1947
Nobody Lives Forever
1946
Deception
1946
Shadow of a Woman
1946
Janie Gets Married
1946
Too Young to Know
1945
Danger Signal
1945
Star in the Night
1945
Objective, Burma!
1945
Hollywood Canteen
1944
The Very Thought of You
1944
Musical Movieland
1944
Janie
1944
Mr. Skeffington
1944
The Bag
TV Shows (59)
Dr. Ken
2015
Weird Loners
2015
Community
2009
Joan of Arcadia
2003
Boomtown
2002
The Bernie Mac Show
2001
Judging Amy
1999
Felicity
1998
Batman: The Animated Series
1992
Beverly Hills, 90210
1990
Wings
1990
She's the Sheriff
1987
DuckTales
1987
DuckTales
1987
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Remington Steele
1982
Cheers
1982
Cassie & Co.
1982
Space Stars
1981
The Amazing Spider-Man
1978
Lou Grant
1977
Quincy, M.E.
1976
The Bionic Woman
1976
The Six Million Dollar Man
1974
The Six Million Dollar Man
1974
Police Story
1973
Here's Lucy
1968
Mayberry R.F.D.
1968
Mr. Terrific
1967
That Girl
1966
I Dream of Jeannie
1965
Hogan's Heroes
1965
The Wild Wild West
1965
Green Acres
1965
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
1964
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
Petticoat Junction
1963
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
Saints and Sinners
1962
The Dick Van Dyke Show
1961
Mister Ed
1961
The Tab Hunter Show
1960
The Twilight Zone
1959
Perry Mason
1957
Perry Mason
1957
Perry Mason
1957
Perry Mason
1957
Perry Mason
1957
Perry Mason
1957
Panic!
1957
West Point
1956
Matinee Theater
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Science Fiction Theatre
1955
December Bride
1954
Where's Raymond?
1953
Cavalcade of America
1952
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951