Richard Erdman

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Enid, Oklahoma, USA, 1925-06-01

Died: 2019-03-16

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Mr. Skeffington	Western Union Boy (uncredited)	66
2	1944	Janie	Scooper Nolan (as Dick Erdman)	55
3	1944	Musical Movieland	Sailor with Tour (uncredited)	60
4	1944	The Very Thought of You	Soda Jerk	62
5	1944	Hollywood Canteen	Soldier on Deck (uncredited)	73
6	1945	Objective, Burma!	Pvt. Nebraska Hooper	68
7	1945	Star in the Night	Middle Cowboy	74
8	1945	Danger Signal	Bunkie Taylor (as Dick Erdman)	58
9	1945	Too Young to Know	Tommy	0
10	1946	Janie Gets Married	Lt. 'Scooper' Nolan (as Dick Erdman)	60
11	1946	Shadow of a Woman	Joe, Counterman at Owl Lunch	42
12	1946	So You Want to Play the Horses	Eddie (uncredited)	60
13	1946	Deception	Terry Spencer (uncredited)	65
14	1946	Nobody Lives Forever	Bellboy, The Marwood Arms	62
15	1947	That Way with Women	Eddie (as Dick Erdman)	62
16	1947	Wild Harvest	Mark Lewis	0
17	1948	The Time of Your Life	Willie	55
18	1949	Easy Living	Buddy Morgan	59
19	1949	Swiss Tour	Eddy	80
20	1950	The Admiral Was a Lady	Oliver 'Ollie' Bonelli	61
21	1950	The Men	Leo	70
22	1951	Cry Danger	Delong	67
23	1951	You're in the Navy Now	Ens. Chuck Dorrance	44
24	1951	The Stooge	Ben Bailey	66
25	1951	The Wild Blue Yonder	Cpl. Frenchy	60
26	1952	Aladdin and His Lamp	Mirza	0
27	1952	The San Francisco Story	Shorty	48
28	1952	Jumping Jacks	Dogface Dolan	63
29	1952	The Happy Time	Alfred Grattin	63
30	1953	The Blue Gardenia	Al	66
31	1953	Stalag 17	Sgt. 'Hoffy' Hoffman	77
32	1953	Mission Over Korea	Pvt. Swenson	30
33	1953	The Steel Lady	Jim Evans	64
34	1955	Francis in the Navy	Murph	55
35	1955	Bengazi	Selby	34
36	1956	Anything Goes	Ed Brent	60
37	1956	The Power and the Prize	Lester Everett	55
38	1958	The Rawhide Trail	Rupe Pardee	0
39	1958	Saddle the Wind	Dallas Hanson	65
40	1959	Face of Fire	Al Williams	56
41	1963	The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada	Host and narrator	0
42	1964	The Brass Bottle	Seymour Jenks	62
43	1966	Namu, the Killer Whale	Deke	44
44	1969	Rascal	Walt Dabbett	58
45	1970	Tora! Tora! Tora!	Colonel Edward F. French	71
46	1972	The Great Man's Whiskers	Joseph Somerby	0
47	1972	Visions...	Ellis	0
48	1973	Brothers O'Toole	Judge Quincey P. Trumbell	53
49	1974	Mr. Majestyk	Dick Richard (uncredited)	68
50	1974	Mr. Majestyk	Dick Richard	68
51	1975	Kate McShane	Frederick de Fernando	0
52	1981	Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge	Mr. Zeider	54
53	1982	Heidi's Song	Herr Sessman (voice)	60
54	1983	The Secret World of OG	Pirate #1	42
55	1984	Trancers	Drunken Wise Man	59
56	1985	Tomboy	Chester	48
57	1986	My Town	Fletcher Mays	0
58	1986	Stewardess School	Attorney	48
59	1987	Valet Girls	Waiter	35
60	1988	Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats	Sid Buckman / Car Wash Manager (voice)	64
61	1988	Jesse	Dr. Adams	70
62	1991	Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker	actor 'Stalag 17' (archive footage) (uncredited)	77
63	1994	The Pagemaster	Pirate (voice)	64
64	2008	Empire State Building Murders	Eddie Walker	0
65	2021	Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!	Self	40
66		The Bag	John Harper	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Eddie McGuire	73
2	1952	Cavalcade of America	Harry Jordan	35
3	1953	Where's Raymond?	Pete Morrisey	70
4	1954	December Bride		55
5	1955	Science Fiction Theatre		62
6	1955	Navy Log		45
7	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Charlie Brown	77
8	1955	Matinee Theater		50
9	1956	West Point		50
10	1957	Panic!		0
11	1957	Perry Mason	Arthur Binney	77
12	1957	Perry Mason	Jim West	77
13	1957	Perry Mason	Charles (Monty) Montrose	77
14	1957	Perry Mason	Harry Niles	77
15	1957	Perry Mason	Ben Lucas	77
16	1957	Perry Mason	Jud Bennett	77
17	1959	The Twilight Zone	Patrick McNulty	85
18	1959	Not for Hire		0
19	1960	The Tab Hunter Show	Richard Fairfield III	50
20	1961	Mister Ed		68
21	1961	The Dick Van Dyke Show	Buck Brown	75
22	1962	Saints and Sinners	Klugie	60
23	1962	The Beverly Hillbillies		69
24	1963	Petticoat Junction	Colonel Millbank	58
25	1964	Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.		71
26	1965	Green Acres		73
27	1965	Hogan's Heroes	Walter Hobson	75
28	1965	The Wild Wild West	Mordecai Krone	75
29	1965	I Dream of Jeannie	Store Manager	78
30	1966	That Girl		63
31	1967	Mr. Terrific	Manny	71
32	1968	Here's Lucy	Clerk	67
33	1968	Mayberry R.F.D.	Frank Wylie	57
34	1973	Police Story		69
35	1974	The Six Million Dollar Man	Slayton	73
36	1974	The Six Million Dollar Man	Vernon	73
37	1976	The Bionic Woman		70
38	1976	Quincy, M.E.		75
39	1977	Lou Grant		73
40	1978	The Amazing Spider-Man		60
41	1981	Space Stars	Additional Voices (voice)	78
42	1982	Cheers	Duncan Fitzgerald	76
43	1982	Remington Steele	Bert the Coroner	71
44	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Jonathan	75
45	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Eggman	75
46	1987	DuckTales	King Arty (voice)	76
47	1987	DuckTales	Mayor Rufus B. Pinfeathers (voice)	76
48	1990	Wings	Howard Banks	69
49	1990	Beverly Hills, 90210		74
50	1992	Batman: The Animated Series	Elliot (voice)	85
51	1998	Felicity	Howie	66
52	1999	Judging Amy	Mr. Callahan	75
53	2001	The Bernie Mac Show	Frank	65
54	2002	Boomtown	Kevin's Dad	65
55	2003	Joan of Arcadia		72
56	2009	Community	Leonard	80
57	2015	Weird Loners	Carl's Grandfather	61
58	2015	Dr. Ken	Richard Erdman	56

Richard Erdman

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