Richard Erdman
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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
Credits
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
as Colonel Edward F. French
Trancers (1984)
as Drunken Wise Man
The Pagemaster (1994)
as Pirate (voice)
Mr. Skeffington (1944)
as Western Union Boy (uncredited)
Valet Girls (1987)
as Waiter
The Men (1950)
as Leo
Stalag 17 (1953)
as Hoffy Hoffman
Objective, Burma! (1945)
as Pvt. Nebraska Hooper
Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge (1980)
as Mr. Zeider
Mr. Majestyk (1974)
as Dick Richard (uncredited)
The Blue Gardenia (1953)
as Al
Namu, the Killer Whale (1966)
as Deke
So You Want to Play the Horses (1946)
as Eddie (uncredited)
Heidi's Song (1982)
as Herr Sessman (voice)
The Steel Lady (1953)
as Jim Evans
You're in the Navy Now (1951)
as Ens. Chuck Dorrance
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats (1988)
as Sid Buckman / Car Wash Manager (voice)
Cry Danger (1951)
as Delong
Saddle the Wind (1958)
as Dallas Hanson
Hollywood Canteen (1944)
as Soldier on Deck (uncredited)
The Rawhide Trail (1958)
as Rupe Pardee
The Wild Blue Yonder (1951)
as Cpl. Frenchy
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists! (2021)
as Self
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991)
as actor 'Stalag 17' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Deception (1946)
as Terry Spencer (uncredited)
Jumping Jacks (1952)
as Dogface Dolan
The Power and the Prize (1956)
as Lester Everett
Anything Goes (1956)
as Ed Brent
Stewardess School (1986)
as Attorney
Tomboy (1985)
as Chester
The Time of Your Life (1948)
as Willie
Nobody Lives Forever (1946)
as Bellboy, The Marwood Arms
The Secret World of Og (1983)
as Pirate #1
Shadow of a Woman (1946)
as Joe, Counterman at Owl Lunch
Francis in the Navy (1955)
as Murph
The Stooge (1951)
as Ben Bailey
The San Francisco Story (1952)
as Shorty
Rascal (1969)
as Walt Dabbett
Easy Living (1949)
as Buddy Morgan
Timeless Tales: The Emperor's New Clothes (1990)
Actor
Jesse (1988)
as Dr. Adams
The Admiral Was a Lady (1950)
as Oliver 'Ollie' Bonelli
My Town (1986)
as Fletcher Mays
Aladdin and His Lamp (1952)
as Mirza
The Great Man's Whiskers (1972)
as Joseph Somerby
Star in the Night (1945)
as Middle Cowboy
Janie (1944)
as Scooper Nolan (as Dick Erdman)
The Very Thought of You (1944)
as Soda Jerk
Danger Signal (1945)
as Bunkie Taylor (as Dick Erdman)
The Brass Bottle (1964)
as Seymour Jenks
The Happy Time (1952)
as Alfred Grattin
Wild Harvest (1947)
as Mark Lewis
Empire State Building Murders (2008)
as Eddie Walker
Face of Fire (1959)
as Al Williams
Brothers O'Toole (1973)
as Judge Quincey P. Trumbell
Musical Movieland (1944)
as Sailor with Tour (uncredited)
Bengazi (1955)
as Selby
Mission Over Korea (1953)
as Pvt. Swenson
Kate McShane (1975)
as Frederick de Fernando
Too Young to Know (1945)
as Tommy
That Way with Women (1947)
as Eddie (as Dick Erdman)
Visions... (1972)
as Ellis
Swiss Tour (1949)
as Eddy
The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada (1963)
as Host and narrator
The Bag (—)
as John Harper
Janie Gets Married (1946)
as Lt. 'Scooper' Nolan (as Dick Erdman)