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