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