
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.
Acting (63 movies)

Stalag 17
1953

Tomboy
1985

The Men
1950

Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970

The Blue Gardenia
1953

Cry Danger
1951

Nobody Lives Forever
1946

Danger Signal
1945

Deception
1946

The Pagemaster
1994

Jumping Jacks
1952

Objective, Burma!
1945

The Admiral Was a Lady
1950

Francis in the Navy
1955

Shadow of a Woman
1946

Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge
1981

Rascal
1969

Namu, the Killer Whale
1966

Heidi's Song
1982

The Stooge
1951

Easy Living
1949

Swiss Tour
1949

Visions...
1972

That Way with Women
1947

The Wild Blue Yonder
1951

The Secret World of Og
1983

The San Francisco Story
1952

The Very Thought of You
1944

The Happy Time
1952

Janie Gets Married
1946

Janie
1944

My Town
1986

The Time of Your Life
1948

You're in the Navy Now
1951

Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
1988

Bengazi
1955

Stewardess School
1986

Kate McShane
1975

Saddle the Wind
1958

The Rawhide Trail
1958

The Brass Bottle
1964

Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
2021

The Steel Lady
1953

Mission Over Korea
1953

Too Young to Know
1945

Hollywood Canteen
1944

Face of Fire
1959

Mr. Majestyk
1974

Mr. Skeffington
1944

Wild Harvest
1947

Trancers
1984

Valet Girls
1987

Anything Goes
1956

Mr. Majestyk
1974

Aladdin and His Lamp
1952

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991

Musical Movieland
1944

The Great Man's Whiskers
1972

Star in the Night
1945

Brothers O'Toole
1973

The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada
1963

The Power and the Prize
1956

Jesse
1988
Directing (3 movies)
| Title | Year | Job | 
|---|---|---|
| The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada | 1963 | Producer | 

