Richard Erdman
Acting
1925-06-01 · 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.
Filmography
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
2021 · Movie
Dr. Ken
2015 · Series
Weird Loners
2015 · Series
Community
2009 · Series
Empire State Building Murders
2008 · Movie
Joan of Arcadia
2003 · Series
Boomtown
2002 · Series
The Bernie Mac Show
2001 · Series
Judging Amy
1999 · Series
Felicity
1998 · Series
The Pagemaster
1994 · Movie
Batman: The Animated Series
1992 · Series
The Dark Wind
1992 · Movie
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991 · Movie
Beverly Hills, 90210
1990 · Series
Timeless Tales: The Emperor's New Clothes
1990 · Movie
Wings
1990 · Series
Jesse
1988 · Movie
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
1988 · Movie
She's the Sheriff
1987 · Series
DuckTales
1987 · Series
Valet Girls
1987 · Movie
Stewardess School
1986 · Movie
My Town
1986 · Movie
Tomboy
1985 · Movie
Trancers
1984 · Movie
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · Series
The Secret World of Og
1983 · Movie
Heidi's Song
1982 · Movie
Remington Steele
1982 · Series
Cheers
1982 · Series
Cassie & Co.
1982 · Series
Space Stars
1981 · Series
Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge
1981 · Movie
The Amazing Spider-Man
1978 · Series
Lou Grant
1977 · Series
Quincy, M.E.
1976 · Series
The Bionic Woman
1976 · Series
Kate McShane
1975 · Movie
Mr. Majestyk
1974 · Movie
The Six Million Dollar Man
1974 · Series
Brothers O'Toole
1973 · Movie
Police Story
1973 · Series
Visions...
1972 · Movie
The Great Man's Whiskers
1972 · Movie
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
1971 · Movie
Teenage Tease
1971 · Movie
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970 · Movie
Rascal
1969 · Movie
Here's Lucy
1968 · Series
Mayberry R.F.D.
1968 · Series
Mr. Terrific
1967 · Series
That Girl
1966 · Series
Namu, the Killer Whale
1966 · Movie
I Dream of Jeannie
1965 · Series
Hogan's Heroes
1965 · Series
The Wild Wild West
1965 · Series
Green Acres
1965 · Series
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
1964 · Series
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964 · Series
The Brass Bottle
1964 · Movie
Petticoat Junction
1963 · Series
The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada
1963 · Movie
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962 · Series
Saints and Sinners
1962 · Series
The Dick Van Dyke Show
1961 · Series
Mister Ed
1961 · Series
The Tab Hunter Show
1960 · Series
Not for Hire
1959 · Series
The Twilight Zone
1959 · Series
Face of Fire
1959 · Movie
Saddle the Wind
1958 · Movie
The Rawhide Trail
1958 · Movie
Perry Mason
1957 · Series
Panic!
1957 · Series
West Point
1956 · Series
The Power and the Prize
1956 · Movie
Anything Goes
1956 · Movie
Matinee Theater
1955 · Series
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Series
Navy Log
1955 · Series
Bengazi
1955 · Movie
Francis in the Navy
1955 · Movie
Science Fiction Theatre
1955 · Series
December Bride
1954 · Series
The Steel Lady
1953 · Movie
Where's Raymond?
1953 · Series
Mission Over Korea
1953 · Movie
Stalag 17
1953 · Movie
The Blue Gardenia
1953 · Movie
The Happy Time
1952 · Movie
Cavalcade of America
1952 · Series
Jumping Jacks
1952 · Movie
The San Francisco Story
1952 · Movie
Aladdin and His Lamp
1952 · Movie
The Wild Blue Yonder
1951 · Movie
The Stooge
1951 · Movie
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · Series
You're in the Navy Now
1951 · Movie
Cry Danger
1951 · Movie
The Men
1950 · Movie
The Admiral Was a Lady
1950 · Movie
Swiss Tour
1949 · Movie
Easy Living
1949 · Movie
The Time of Your Life
1948 · Movie
Wild Harvest
1947 · Movie
That Way with Women
1947 · Movie
Nobody Lives Forever
1946 · Movie
Deception
1946 · Movie
So You Want to Play the Horses
1946 · Movie
Shadow of a Woman
1946 · Movie
Janie Gets Married
1946 · Movie
Too Young to Know
1945 · Movie
Danger Signal
1945 · Movie
Star in the Night
1945 · Movie
Objective, Burma!
1945 · Movie
Hollywood Canteen
1944 · Movie
The Very Thought of You
1944 · Movie
Musical Movieland
1944 · Movie
Janie
1944 · Movie
Mr. Skeffington
1944 · Movie
The Bag
Movie