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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
June 1, 1925
Place of Birth:
Enid, Oklahoma, USA
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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.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists! | Self |
| 2008 | Empire State Building Murders | Eddie Walker |
| 1994 | The Pagemaster | Pirate (voice) |
| 1991 | Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | actor 'Stalag 17' (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1988 | Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats | Sid Buckman / Car Wash Manager (voice) |
| 1988 | Jesse | Dr. Adams |
| 1987 | Valet Girls | Waiter |
| 1986 | My Town | Fletcher Mays |
| 1986 | Stewardess School | Attorney |
| 1985 | Tomboy | Chester |
| 1984 | Trancers | Drunken Wise Man |
| 1983 | The Secret World of OG | Pirate #1 |
| 1982 | Heidi's Song | Herr Sessman (voice) |
| 1981 | Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge | Mr. Zeider |
| 1975 | Kate McShane | Frederick de Fernando |
| 1974 | Mr. Majestyk | Dick Richard (uncredited) |
| 1974 | Mr. Majestyk | Dick Richard |
| 1973 | Brothers O'Toole | Judge Quincey P. Trumbell |
| 1972 | Visions... | Ellis |
| 1972 | The Great Man's Whiskers | Joseph Somerby |
| 1970 | Tora! Tora! Tora! | Colonel Edward F. French |
| 1969 | Rascal | Walt Dabbett |
| 1966 | Namu, the Killer Whale | Deke |
| 1964 | The Brass Bottle | Seymour Jenks |
| 1963 | The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada | Host and narrator |
| 1959 | Face of Fire | Al Williams |
| 1958 | Saddle the Wind | Dallas Hanson |
| 1958 | The Rawhide Trail | Rupe Pardee |
| 1956 | Anything Goes | Ed Brent |
| 1956 | The Power and the Prize | Lester Everett |
| 1955 | Francis in the Navy | Murph |
| 1955 | Bengazi | Selby |
| 1953 | Stalag 17 | Sgt. 'Hoffy' Hoffman |
| 1953 | The Blue Gardenia | Al |
| 1953 | The Steel Lady | Jim Evans |
| 1953 | Mission Over Korea | Pvt. Swenson |
| 1952 | Jumping Jacks | Dogface Dolan |
| 1952 | The San Francisco Story | Shorty |
| 1952 | The Happy Time | Alfred Grattin |
| 1952 | Aladdin and His Lamp | Mirza |
| 1951 | Cry Danger | Delong |
| 1951 | The Stooge | Ben Bailey |
| 1951 | The Wild Blue Yonder | Cpl. Frenchy |
| 1951 | You're in the Navy Now | Ens. Chuck Dorrance |
| 1950 | The Men | Leo |
| 1950 | The Admiral Was a Lady | Oliver 'Ollie' Bonelli |
| 1949 | Easy Living | Buddy Morgan |
| 1949 | Swiss Tour | Eddy |
| 1948 | The Time of Your Life | Willie |
| 1947 | That Way with Women | Eddie (as Dick Erdman) |
| 1947 | Wild Harvest | Mark Lewis |
| 1946 | Nobody Lives Forever | Bellboy, The Marwood Arms |
| 1946 | Deception | Terry Spencer (uncredited) |
| 1946 | Shadow of a Woman | Joe, Counterman at Owl Lunch |
| 1946 | Janie Gets Married | Lt. 'Scooper' Nolan (as Dick Erdman) |
| 1946 | So You Want to Play the Horses | Eddie (uncredited) |
| 1945 | Danger Signal | Bunkie Taylor (as Dick Erdman) |
| 1945 | Objective, Burma! | Pvt. Nebraska Hooper |
| 1945 | Too Young to Know | Tommy |
| 1945 | Star in the Night | Middle Cowboy |
| 1944 | The Very Thought of You | Soda Jerk |
| 1944 | Janie | Scooper Nolan (as Dick Erdman) |
| 1944 | Hollywood Canteen | Soldier on Deck (uncredited) |
| 1944 | Mr. Skeffington | Western Union Boy (uncredited) |
| 1944 | Musical Movieland | Sailor with Tour (uncredited) |
| The Bag | John Harper |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Dr. Ken | Richard Erdman |
| 2015 | Weird Loners | Carl's Grandfather |
| 2009 | Community | Leonard |
| 2003 | Joan of Arcadia | |
| 2002 | Boomtown | Kevin's Dad |
| 2001 | The Bernie Mac Show | Frank |
| 1999 | Judging Amy | Mr. Callahan |
| 1998 | Felicity | Howie |
| 1992 | Batman: The Animated Series | Elliot (voice) |
| 1990 | Beverly Hills, 90210 | |
| 1990 | Wings | Howard Banks |
| 1987 | DuckTales | Mayor Rufus B. Pinfeathers (voice) |
| 1987 | DuckTales | King Arty (voice) |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote | Jonathan |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote | Eggman |
| 1982 | Remington Steele | Bert the Coroner |
| 1982 | Cheers | Duncan Fitzgerald |
| 1981 | Space Stars | Additional Voices (voice) |
| 1978 | The Amazing Spider-Man | |
| 1977 | Lou Grant | |
| 1976 | The Bionic Woman | |
| 1976 | Quincy, M.E. | |
| 1974 | The Six Million Dollar Man | Slayton |
| 1974 | The Six Million Dollar Man | Vernon |
| 1973 | Police Story | |
| 1968 | Here's Lucy | Clerk |
| 1968 | Mayberry R.F.D. | Frank Wylie |
| 1967 | Mr. Terrific | Manny |
| 1966 | That Girl | |
| 1965 | Green Acres | |
| 1965 | Hogan's Heroes | Walter Hobson |
| 1965 | The Wild Wild West | Mordecai Krone |
| 1965 | I Dream of Jeannie | Store Manager |
| 1964 | Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. | |
| 1963 | Petticoat Junction | Colonel Millbank |
| 1962 | The Beverly Hillbillies | |
| 1962 | Saints and Sinners | Klugie |
| 1961 | Mister Ed | |
| 1961 | The Dick Van Dyke Show | Buck Brown |
| 1960 | The Tab Hunter Show | Richard Fairfield III |
| 1959 | The Twilight Zone | Patrick McNulty |
| 1959 | Not for Hire | |
| 1957 | Perry Mason | Arthur Binney |
| 1957 | Panic! | |
| 1957 | Perry Mason | Jim West |
| 1957 | Perry Mason | Charles (Monty) Montrose |
| 1957 | Perry Mason | Harry Niles |
| 1957 | Perry Mason | Ben Lucas |
| 1957 | Perry Mason | Jud Bennett |
| 1956 | West Point | |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Charlie Brown |
| 1955 | Matinee Theater | |
| 1955 | Navy Log | |
| 1955 | Science Fiction Theatre | |
| 1954 | December Bride | |
| 1953 | Where's Raymond? | Pete Morrisey |
| 1952 | Cavalcade of America | Harry Jordan |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | Eddie McGuire |