Richard Erdman
Born: 1925-06-01 in Enid, Oklahoma, USA
Died: 2019-03-16
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2015
- Dr. Ken as Richard Erdman
- Weird Loners as Carl's Grandfather
2009
- Community as Leonard
2008
- Empire State Building Murders as Eddie Walker
2003
- Joan of Arcadia as Mr. Hanson
2002
- Boomtown as Kevin's Dad
2001
- The Bernie Mac Show as Frank
1999
- Judging Amy as Mr. Callahan
1998
- Felicity as Howie
1994
- The Pagemaster as Pirate (voice)
1992
- Batman: The Animated Series as Elliot (voice)
- The Dark Wind ... (Co-Producer)
1991
- Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as actor 'Stalag 17' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1990
- Beverly Hills, 90210 as Mr. Perl
- Wings as Howard Banks
- Timeless Tales: The Emperor's New Clothes
1988
- Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats as Sid Buckman / Car Wash Manager (voice)
- Jesse as Dr. Adams
1987
- DuckTales as King Arty (voice)
- She's the Sheriff as Frank Rubin
- Valet Girls as Waiter
1986
- Stewardess School as Attorney
- My Town as Fletcher Mays
1985
- Tomboy as Chester
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Jonathan
- Trancers as Drunken Wise Man
1983
- The Secret World of Og as Pirate #1
1982
- Cheers as Duncan Fitzgerald
- Remington Steele as Bert the Coroner
- Cassie & Co. as George Davenport
- Heidi's Song as Herr Sessman (voice)
1981
- Space Stars as Additional Voices (voice)
- Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge as Mr. Zeider
1978
- The Amazing Spider-Man as Mr. Zeider
1977
1975
- Kate McShane as Frederick de Fernando
1974
- The Six Million Dollar Man as Slayton
- Mr. Majestyk as Dick Richard (uncredited)
1973
- Police Story
- Brothers O'Toole as Judge Quincey P. Trumbell
1972
- The Great Man's Whiskers as Joseph Somerby
- Visions... as Ellis
1971
- Mooch Goes to Hollywood ... (Director)
- Teenage Tease ... (Director)
1970
- Tora! Tora! Tora! as Colonel Edward F. French
1969
- Rascal as Walt Dabbett
1968
- Here's Lucy as Clerk
- Mayberry R.F.D. as Frank Wylie
1967
- Mr. Terrific as Manny
1966
- That Girl
- Namu, the Killer Whale as Deke
1965
- Hogan's Heroes as Walter Hobson
- The Wild Wild West as Mordecai Krone
- I Dream of Jeannie as Store Manager
- Green Acres
1964
- Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as P.T. Barkley
- The Brass Bottle as Seymour Jenks
1963
- Petticoat Junction as Colonel Millbank
- The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada as Host and narrator
1962
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- Saints and Sinners as Klugie
1961
- The Dick Van Dyke Show as Buck Brown
- Mister Ed
1960
- The Tab Hunter Show as Richard Fairfield III
1959
- The Twilight Zone as Patrick McNulty
- Not for Hire
- Face of Fire as Al Williams
1958
- Saddle the Wind as Dallas Hanson
- The Rawhide Trail as Rupe Pardee
1957
- Perry Mason as Arthur Binney
- Panic!
1956
- West Point
- Anything Goes as Ed Brent
- The Power and the Prize as Lester Everett
1955
- Matinee Theater
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Charlie Brown
- Navy Log
- Science Fiction Theatre
- Francis in the Navy as Murph
- Bengazi as Selby
1954
1953
- Stalag 17 as Sgt. 'Hoffy' Hoffman
- The Blue Gardenia as Al
- Where's Raymond? as Pete Morrisey
- The Steel Lady as Jim Evans
- Mission Over Korea as Pvt. Swenson
1952
- Cavalcade of America as Harry Jordan
- The San Francisco Story as Shorty
- Jumping Jacks as Dogface Dolan
- The Happy Time as Alfred Grattin
- Aladdin and His Lamp as Mirza
1951
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Eddie McGuire
- The Stooge as Ben Bailey
- You're in the Navy Now as Ens. Chuck Dorrance
- Cry Danger as Delong
- The Wild Blue Yonder as Cpl. Frenchy
1950
- The Men as Leo
- The Admiral Was a Lady as Oliver 'Ollie' Bonelli
1949
- Easy Living as Buddy Morgan
- Swiss Tour as Eddy
1948
- The Time of Your Life as Willie
1947
- That Way with Women as Eddie (as Dick Erdman)
- Wild Harvest as Mark Lewis
1946
- Deception as Terry Spencer (uncredited)
- Shadow of a Woman as Joe, Counterman at Owl Lunch
- Nobody Lives Forever as Bellboy, The Marwood Arms
- So You Want to Play the Horses as Eddie (uncredited)
- Janie Gets Married as Lt. 'Scooper' Nolan (as Dick Erdman)
1945
- Objective, Burma! as Pvt. Nebraska Hooper
- Danger Signal as Bunkie Taylor (as Dick Erdman)
- Star in the Night as Middle Cowboy
- Too Young to Know as Tommy
1944
- Mr. Skeffington as Western Union Boy (uncredited)
- Hollywood Canteen as Soldier on Deck (uncredited)
- Janie as Scooper Nolan (as Dick Erdman)
- The Very Thought of You as Soda Jerk
- Musical Movieland as Sailor with Tour (uncredited)