Richard Erdman
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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1925-06-01
Place of birth
Enid, Oklahoma, USA
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Cast
Stalag 17
1953
7.70
Tomboy
1985
4.90
The Men
1950
7.00
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
7.14
The Blue Gardenia
1953
6.60
Cry Danger
1951
6.69
Nobody Lives Forever
1946
6.20
Danger Signal
1945
5.80
Deception
1946
6.50
The Pagemaster
1994
6.40
Jumping Jacks
1952
6.30
Objective, Burma!
1945
6.80
The Admiral Was a Lady
1950
6.10
Francis in the Navy
1955
5.50
Shadow of a Woman
1946
4.20
Empire State Building Murders
2008
0.00
Rascal
1969
5.80
Namu, the Killer Whale
1966
4.42
Heidi's Song
1982
6.00
The Stooge
1951
6.60
Easy Living
1949
5.90
Swiss Tour
1949
8.00
Visions...
1972
0.00
That Way with Women
1947
6.17
The Wild Blue Yonder
1951
6.00
The Secret World of OG
1983
4.20
The San Francisco Story
1952
4.80
The Very Thought of You
1944
6.20
The Happy Time
1952
6.30
Janie Gets Married
1946
6.00
Janie
1944
5.50
My Town
1986
0.00
The Time of Your Life
1948
5.80
You're in the Navy Now
1951
4.40
Bengazi
1955
3.40
Stewardess School
1986
4.90
Kate McShane
1975
0.00
Saddle the Wind
1958
6.50
The Rawhide Trail
1958
0.00
The Brass Bottle
1964
6.20
The Steel Lady
1953
6.40
Mission Over Korea
1953
3.00
Too Young to Know
1945
0.00
Hollywood Canteen
1944
7.30
Face of Fire
1959
5.60
Mr. Majestyk
1974
6.83
Mr. Skeffington
1944
6.70
Wild Harvest
1947
0.00
Trancers
1984
5.80
Valet Girls
1987
3.20
Anything Goes
1956
5.90
Mr. Majestyk
1974
6.83
Aladdin and His Lamp
1952
0.00
So You Want to Play the Horses
1946
6.00
Musical Movieland
1944
6.00
The Great Man's Whiskers
1972
0.00
Star in the Night
1945
7.20
Brothers O'Toole
1973
6.70
The Bag
0.00
The Power and the Prize
1956
5.50
Jesse
1988
7.00