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 |