
Richard Erdman
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.
119 acting credits · 3 directing credits
Acting · 119

Perry Mason
1957

Murder, She Wrote
1984

Cheers
1982

Beverly Hills, 90210
1990

Batman: The Animated Series
1992

Judging Amy
1999

Quincy, M.E.
1976

Wings
1990

Community
2009

The Twilight Zone
1959

Petticoat Junction
1963

Hogan's Heroes
1965

The Beverly Hillbillies
1962

The Six Million Dollar Man
1974

The Wild Wild West
1965

I Dream of Jeannie
1965

Green Acres
1965

Felicity
1998

Remington Steele
1982

Matinee Theater
1955

The Bernie Mac Show
2001

That Girl
1966

The Dick Van Dyke Show
1961

DuckTales
1987

Lou Grant
1977

Here's Lucy
1968

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
1964

Mister Ed
1961

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

Joan of Arcadia
2003

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964

The Bionic Woman
1976

Police Story
1973

Mayberry R.F.D.
1968

Cavalcade of America
1952
Navy Log
1955

Boomtown
2002

Dr. Ken
2015

December Bride
1954

Science Fiction Theatre
1955

Panic!
1957

The Amazing Spider-Man
1978

West Point
1956

Space Stars
1981

Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970

She's the Sheriff
1987

Saints and Sinners
1962

Mr. Terrific
1967

Cassie & Co.
1982

The Pagemaster
1994

Weird Loners
2015

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Not for Hire
1959

Stalag 17
1953

The Tab Hunter Show
1960

Tomboy
1985

Mr. Majestyk
1974

Where's Raymond?
1953

Trancers
1984

The Men
1950

Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge
1981

Saddle the Wind
1958

Mr. Skeffington
1944

Stewardess School
1986

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

The Blue Gardenia
1953

Hollywood Canteen
1944

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991

Easy Living
1949

The Stooge
1951

Objective, Burma!
1945

Deception
1946

You're in the Navy Now
1951

Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
1988

Valet Girls
1987

Jumping Jacks
1952

Rascal
1969

The Time of Your Life
1948

Jesse
1988

Anything Goes
1956

Visions...
1972

Cry Danger
1951

The Secret World of Og
1983

The Happy Time
1952

Francis in the Navy
1955

The Great Man's Whiskers
1972

The Admiral Was a Lady
1950

Namu, the Killer Whale
1966

The Power and the Prize
1956

Brothers O'Toole
1973

Bengazi
1955

Nobody Lives Forever
1946

My Town
1986

Wild Harvest
1947

Heidi's Song
1982

The San Francisco Story
1952

The Steel Lady
1953

Face of Fire
1959
Empire State Building Murders
2008

The Wild Blue Yonder
1951

Danger Signal
1945

The Brass Bottle
1964

Kate McShane
1975

Star in the Night
1945

Shadow of a Woman
1946

Aladdin and His Lamp
1952

Janie
1944

Swiss Tour
1949

The Very Thought of You
1944
So You Want to Play the Horses
1946

Musical Movieland
1944

Too Young to Know
1945

The Bag
—

The Rawhide Trail
1958

Mission Over Korea
1953

That Way with Women
1947

The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada
1963

Timeless Tales: The Emperor's New Clothes
1990

Janie Gets Married
1946

