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