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
The Pagemaster (1994)
as Pirate (voice)
Trancers (1984)
as Drunken Wise Man
Stalag 17 (1953)
as Hoffy Hoffman
Mr. Skeffington (1944)
as Western Union Boy (uncredited)
The Blue Gardenia (1953)
as Al
Mr. Majestyk (1974)
as Dick Richard (uncredited)
Objective, Burma! (1945)
as Pvt. Nebraska Hooper
The Men (1950)
as Leo
Saddle the Wind (1958)
as Dallas Hanson
Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge (1981)
as Mr. Zeider
Valet Girls (1987)
as Waiter
Stewardess School (1986)
as Attorney
Francis in the Navy (1955)
as Murph
The Stooge (1951)
as Ben Bailey
Deception (1946)
as Terry Spencer (uncredited)
Heidi's Song (1982)
as Herr Sessman (voice)
Hollywood Canteen (1944)
as Soldier on Deck (uncredited)
You're in the Navy Now (1951)
as Ens. Chuck Dorrance
Nobody Lives Forever (1946)
as Bellboy, The Marwood Arms
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats (1988)
as Sid Buckman / Car Wash Manager (voice)
The San Francisco Story (1952)
as Shorty
Cry Danger (1951)
as Delong
Anything Goes (1956)
as Ed Brent
Tomboy (1985)
as Chester
The Steel Lady (1953)
as Jim Evans
Shadow of a Woman (1946)
as Joe, Counterman at Owl Lunch
The Secret World of Og (1983)
as Pirate #1
The Brass Bottle (1964)
as Seymour Jenks
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991)
as actor 'Stalag 17' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jumping Jacks (1952)
as Dogface Dolan
The Power and the Prize (1956)
as Lester Everett
Face of Fire (1959)
as Al Williams
Mission Over Korea (1953)
as Pvt. Swenson
The Wild Blue Yonder (1951)
as Cpl. Frenchy
The Time of Your Life (1948)
as Willie
The Admiral Was a Lady (1950)
as Oliver 'Ollie' Bonelli
Rascal (1969)
as Walt Dabbett
Namu, the Killer Whale (1966)
as Deke
Janie (1944)
as Scooper Nolan (as Dick Erdman)
Too Young to Know (1945)
as Tommy
That Way with Women (1947)
as Eddie (as Dick Erdman)
Danger Signal (1945)
as Bunkie Taylor (as Dick Erdman)
Wild Harvest (1947)
as Mark Lewis
The Great Man's Whiskers (1972)
as Joseph Somerby
The Rawhide Trail (1958)
as Rupe Pardee
Easy Living (1949)
as Buddy Morgan
Brothers O'Toole (1973)
as Judge Quincey P. Trumbell
Empire State Building Murders (2008)
as Eddie Walker
Aladdin and His Lamp (1952)
as Mirza
My Town (1986)
as Fletcher Mays
Kate McShane (1975)
as Frederick de Fernando
So You Want to Play the Horses (1946)
as Eddie (uncredited)
Timeless Tales: The Emperor's New Clothes (1990)
Actor
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists! (2021)
as Self
The Happy Time (1952)
as Alfred Grattin
Janie Gets Married (1946)
as Lt. 'Scooper' Nolan (as Dick Erdman)
Musical Movieland (1944)
as Sailor with Tour (uncredited)
Swiss Tour (1949)
as Eddy
The Very Thought of You (1944)
as Soda Jerk
The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada (1963)
as Host and narrator
Bengazi (1955)
as Selby
Visions... (1972)
as Ellis
Star in the Night (1945)
as Middle Cowboy
Jesse (1988)
as Dr. Adams
The Bag (—)
as John Harper