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
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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
