
Richard Erdman
Born June 1, 1925 · Enid, Oklahoma, USA
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.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Tora! Tora! Tora!

The Pagemaster

Trancers

Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge

Mr. Majestyk

Mr. Skeffington

Stewardess School

Stalag 17

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

The Men

The Blue Gardenia

Saddle the Wind

Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats

Namu, the Killer Whale

You're in the Navy Now

Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!

The Stooge

Tomboy

Francis in the Navy

Objective, Burma!

The San Francisco Story

Hollywood Canteen

Shadow of a Woman

Valet Girls

The Great Man's Whiskers

The Time of Your Life

The Power and the Prize

The Wild Blue Yonder

Star in the Night

Jumping Jacks

The Admiral Was a Lady

Easy Living

Cry Danger

The Secret World of Og

Heidi's Song

Nobody Lives Forever

Aladdin and His Lamp

That Way with Women

Too Young to Know

The Happy Time

The Very Thought of You

The Brass Bottle

Timeless Tales: The Emperor's New Clothes

The Steel Lady

Deception

Anything Goes

Danger Signal

The Rawhide Trail
TV Shows

Community

Quincy, M.E.

Judging Amy

Batman: The Animated Series

The Twilight Zone

Wings

The Six Million Dollar Man

Matinee Theater

Petticoat Junction

The Bernie Mac Show

Hogan's Heroes

The Dick Van Dyke Show

The Wild Wild West

Remington Steele

I Dream of Jeannie

The Beverly Hillbillies

Lou Grant

Felicity

DuckTales

Here's Lucy

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

Green Acres

Joan of Arcadia

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

That Girl

Police Story

The Bionic Woman

Dr. Ken

Mister Ed

December Bride

Mayberry R.F.D.

Navy Log

Cavalcade of America

Boomtown

Space Stars

She's the Sheriff

The Amazing Spider-Man

Cassie & Co.

Panic!

West Point

Mr. Terrific

Science Fiction Theatre

Saints and Sinners

Weird Loners

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Where's Raymond?




















