Richard Erdman (born Richard Erdmann June 1, 1925, in Enid, Oklahoma) is 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.
Series | Community | Leonard | 2009-09-17 |
Movie | Empire State Building Murders | Eddie Walker | 2008-08-14 |
Series | Joan of Arcadia | Unknown | 2003-09-26 |
Series | Boomtown | Unknown | 2002-09-29 |
Series | The Bernie Mac Show | Unknown | 2001-11-14 |
Series | Judging Amy | Unknown | 1999-09-19 |
Movie | The Pagemaster | Pirate (voice) | 1994-11-23 |
Movie | Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | actor 'Stalag 17' (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1991-10-28 |
Series | Beverly Hills, 90210 | Unknown | 1990-10-04 |
Series | Wings | Unknown | 1990-04-19 |
Movie | Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats | Sid Buckman / Car Wash Manager (voice) | 1988-03-20 |
Series | DuckTales | Unknown | 1987-09-18 |
Movie | Valet Girls | Waiter | 1987-01-01 |
Movie | Stewardess School | Attorney | 1986-08-01 |
Movie | My Town | Fletcher Mays | 1986-05-25 |
Series | The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo | 1985-09-07 | |
Movie | Tomboy | Chester | 1985-01-25 |
Movie | Trancers | Drunken Wise Man | 1984-11-07 |
Series | Murder, She Wrote | Unknown | 1984-09-30 |
Movie | The Secret World of OG | Pirate #1 | 1983-04-30 |
Movie | Heidi's Song | Herr Sessman | 1982-11-19 |
Series | Remington Steele | Unknown | 1982-10-01 |
Movie | Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge | Mr. Zeider | 1981-05-09 |
Series | Space Stars | Additional Voices (voice) | 1981-09-12 |
Series | The Amazing Spider-Man | Unknown | 1978-04-05 |
Series | Lou Grant | Unknown | 1977-09-20 |
Series | Quincy, M.E. | Unknown | 1976-10-03 |
Series | The Bionic Woman | Unknown | 1976-01-14 |
Movie | Mr. Majestyk | Dick Richard | 1974-07-17 |
Movie | Brothers O'Toole | Judge Quincey P. Trumbell | 1973-05-16 |
Series | Police Story | Unknown | 1973-03-20 |
Movie | Visions... | Ellis | 1972-10-10 |
Movie | Tora! Tora! Tora! | Colonel Edward F. French | 1970-01-26 |
Movie | Rascal | Walt Dabbett | 1969-06-11 |
Series | Here's Lucy | Unknown | 1968-09-23 |
Series | Mr. Terrific | Manny | 1967-01-09 |
Series | That Girl | Unknown | 1966-09-08 |
Movie | Namu, the Killer Whale | Deke | 1966-08-01 |
Series | Hogan's Heroes | Unknown | 1965-09-17 |
Series | Green Acres | Unknown | 1965-09-15 |
Series | Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. | Unknown | 1964-09-25 |
Movie | The Brass Bottle | Seymour Jenks | 1964-05-20 |
Series | Petticoat Junction | Unknown | 1963-09-24 |
Series | The Beverly Hillbillies | Unknown | 1962-09-26 |
Series | Saints and Sinners | Klugie | 1962-09-17 |
Series | Mister Ed | Unknown | 1961-01-05 |
Series | The Tab Hunter Show | Richard Fairfield III | 1960-09-18 |
Series | The Twilight Zone | Unknown | 1959-10-02 |
Movie | Face of Fire | Al Williams | 1959-08-09 |
Movie | Saddle the Wind | Dallas Hanson | 1958-03-20 |
Movie | The Rawhide Trail | Rupe Pardee | 1958-01-25 |
Series | Perry Mason | Unknown | 1957-09-21 |
Series | Panic! | Unknown | 1957-03-05 |
Series | West Point | Unknown | 1956-10-05 |
Movie | Anything Goes | Ed Brent | 1956-04-27 |
Series | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Unknown | 1955-10-02 |
Movie | Bengazi | Selby | 1955-09-14 |
Movie | Francis in the Navy | Murph | 1955-08-24 |
Movie | Stalag 17 | Sgt. 'Hoffy' Hoffman | 1953-05-29 |
Movie | The Blue Gardenia | Al | 1953-03-20 |
Movie | The Steel Lady | Jim Evans | 1953-10-09 |
Movie | Mission Over Korea | Pvt. Swenson | 1953-08-01 |
Series | Where's Raymond? | 1953-10-08 | |
Movie | The Happy Time | Alfred Grattin | 1952-10-30 |
Series | Cavalcade of America | Unknown | 1952-10-01 |
Movie | Jumping Jacks | Dogface Dolan | 1952-06-11 |
Movie | The San Francisco Story | Shorty | 1952-05-11 |
Movie | Aladdin and His Lamp | Mirza | 1952-02-24 |
Movie | Cry Danger | Delong | 1951-02-23 |
Movie | The Stooge | Ben Bailey | 1951-11-15 |
Movie | You're in the Navy Now | Ens. Chuck Dorrance | 1951-02-23 |
Movie | The Wild Blue Yonder | Cpl. Frenchy | 1951-12-05 |
Movie | The Men | Leo | 1950-08-25 |
Movie | The Admiral Was a Lady | Oliver 'Ollie' Bonelli | 1950-08-04 |
Movie | Swiss Tour | Eddy | 1949-11-29 |
Movie | Easy Living | Buddy Morgan | 1949-10-08 |
Movie | The Time of Your Life | Willie | 1948-09-03 |
Movie | Wild Harvest | Mark Lewis | 1947-09-26 |
Movie | That Way with Women | Eddie (as Dick Erdman) | 1947-02-14 |
Movie | Janie Gets Married | Lt. 'Scooper' Nolan (as Dick Erdman) | 1946-06-22 |
Movie | Shadow of a Woman | Joe, Counterman at Owl Lunch | 1946-09-14 |
Movie | So You Want to Play the Horses | Eddie (uncredited) | 1946-10-05 |
Movie | Deception | Terry Spencer (uncredited) | 1946-10-26 |
Movie | Nobody Lives Forever | Bellboy, The Marwood Arms | 1946-11-01 |
Movie | Too Young to Know | Tommy | 1945-12-01 |
Movie | Danger Signal | Bunkie Taylor (as Dick Erdman) | 1945-11-21 |
Movie | Star in the Night | Middle Cowboy | 1945-10-13 |
Movie | Objective, Burma! | Pvt. Nebraska Hooper | 1945-02-17 |
Movie | Hollywood Canteen | Soldier on Deck (uncredited) | 1944-12-15 |
Movie | The Very Thought of You | Soda Jerk | 1944-10-20 |
Movie | Janie | Scooper Nolan (as Dick Erdman) | 1944-09-02 |
Movie | Mr. Skeffington | Western Union Boy (uncredited) | 1944-05-25 |