Richard Erdman
Acting
- Born:
- 1925-06-01
- Died:
- 2019-03-16
- Place of birth:
- Enid, Oklahoma, USA
Biography
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
Filmography
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
Dr. Ken
Weird Loners
Community
Empire State Building Murders
Joan of Arcadia
Boomtown
The Bernie Mac Show
Judging Amy
Felicity
The Pagemaster
Batman: The Animated Series
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Beverly Hills, 90210
Timeless Tales: The Emperor's New Clothes
Wings
Jesse
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
She's the Sheriff
DuckTales
Valet Girls
Stewardess School
My Town
Tomboy
Trancers
Murder, She Wrote
The Secret World of Og
Heidi's Song
Remington Steele
Cheers
Cassie & Co.
Space Stars
Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge
The Amazing Spider-Man
Lou Grant
Quincy, M.E.
The Bionic Woman
Kate McShane
Mr. Majestyk
The Six Million Dollar Man
Brothers O'Toole
Police Story
Visions...
The Great Man's Whiskers
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Rascal
Here's Lucy
Mayberry R.F.D.
Mr. Terrific
That Girl
Namu, the Killer Whale
I Dream of Jeannie
Hogan's Heroes
The Wild Wild West
Green Acres
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Brass Bottle
Petticoat Junction
The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada
The Beverly Hillbillies
Saints and Sinners
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Mister Ed
The Tab Hunter Show
Not for Hire
The Twilight Zone
Face of Fire
Saddle the Wind
The Rawhide Trail
Perry Mason
Panic!
West Point
The Power and the Prize
Anything Goes
Matinee Theater
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Navy Log
Bengazi
Francis in the Navy
Science Fiction Theatre
December Bride
The Steel Lady
Where's Raymond?
Mission Over Korea
Stalag 17
The Blue Gardenia
The Happy Time
Cavalcade of America
Jumping Jacks
The San Francisco Story
Aladdin and His Lamp
The Wild Blue Yonder
The Stooge
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Cry Danger
You're in the Navy Now
The Men
The Admiral Was a Lady
Swiss Tour
Easy Living
The Time of Your Life
Wild Harvest
That Way with Women
Nobody Lives Forever
Deception
So You Want to Play the Horses
Shadow of a Woman
Janie Gets Married
Too Young to Know
Danger Signal
Star in the Night
Objective, Burma!
Hollywood Canteen
The Very Thought of You
Musical Movieland
Janie
Mr. Skeffington
The Bag