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