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