Actor
· Acting
Richard Erdman
Born 1925-06-01
Died 2019-03-16
📍 Enid, Oklahoma, USA
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 124
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
as Self
2021
Dr. Ken
as Richard Erdman
2015
Weird Loners
as Carl's Grandfather
2015
Community
as Leonard
2009
Joan of Arcadia
as Mr. Hanson
2003
Boomtown
as Kevin's Dad
2002
The Bernie Mac Show
as Frank
2001
Judging Amy
as Mr. Callahan
1999
Felicity
as Howie
1998
The Pagemaster
as Pirate (voice)
1994
Batman: The Animated Series
as Elliot (voice)
1992
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as actor 'Stalag 17' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1991
Beverly Hills, 90210
as Mr. Perl
1990
Timeless Tales: The Emperor's New Clothes
1990
Wings
as Howard Banks
1990
Jesse
as Dr. Adams
1988
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
as Sid Buckman / Car Wash Manager (voice)
1988
She's the Sheriff
as Frank Rubin
1987
DuckTales
as King Arty (voice)
1987
DuckTales
as Mayor Rufus B. Pinfeathers (voice)
1987
Valet Girls
as Waiter
1987
Stewardess School
as Attorney
1986
My Town
as Fletcher Mays
1986
Tomboy
as Chester
1985
Trancers
as Drunken Wise Man
1984
Murder, She Wrote
as Jonathan
1984
Murder, She Wrote
as Eggman
1984
The Secret World of Og
as Pirate #1
1983
Heidi's Song
as Herr Sessman (voice)
1982
Remington Steele
as Bert the Coroner
1982
Cheers
as Duncan Fitzgerald
1982
Cassie & Co.
as George Davenport
1982
Space Stars
as Additional Voices (voice)
1981
Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge
as Mr. Zeider
1981
The Amazing Spider-Man
as Mr. Zeider
1978
Lou Grant
1977
Quincy, M.E.
1976
The Bionic Woman
1976
Kate McShane
as Frederick de Fernando
1975
Mr. Majestyk
as Dick Richard (uncredited)
1974
Mr. Majestyk
as Dick Richard
1974
The Six Million Dollar Man
as Slayton
1974
The Six Million Dollar Man
as Vernon
1974
Brothers O'Toole
as Judge Quincey P. Trumbell
1973
Police Story
1973
Visions...
as Ellis
1972
The Great Man's Whiskers
as Joseph Somerby
1972
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Colonel Edward F. French
1970
Rascal
as Walt Dabbett
1969
Here's Lucy
as Clerk
1968
Mayberry R.F.D.
as Frank Wylie
1968
Mr. Terrific
as Manny
1967
That Girl
1966
Namu, the Killer Whale
as Deke
1966
I Dream of Jeannie
as Store Manager
1965
Hogan's Heroes
as Walter Hobson
1965
The Wild Wild West
as Mordecai Krone
1965
Green Acres
1965
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
1964
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as P.T. Barkley
1964
The Brass Bottle
as Seymour Jenks
1964
Petticoat Junction
as Colonel Millbank
1963
The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada
as Host and narrator
1963
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
Saints and Sinners
as Klugie
1962
The Dick Van Dyke Show
as Buck Brown
1961
Mister Ed
1961
The Tab Hunter Show
as Richard Fairfield III
1960
The Twilight Zone
as Patrick McNulty
1959
Face of Fire
as Al Williams
1959
Saddle the Wind
as Dallas Hanson
1958
The Rawhide Trail
as Rupe Pardee
1958
Perry Mason
as Arthur Binney
1957
Perry Mason
as Jim West
1957
Perry Mason
as Charles (Monty) Montrose
1957
Perry Mason
as Harry Niles
1957
Perry Mason
as Ben Lucas
1957
Perry Mason
as Jud Bennett
1957
Panic!
1957
West Point
1956
The Power and the Prize
as Lester Everett
1956
Anything Goes
as Ed Brent
1956
Matinee Theater
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Charlie Brown
1955
Bengazi
as Selby
1955
Francis in the Navy
as Murph
1955
Science Fiction Theatre
1955
December Bride
1954
The Steel Lady
as Jim Evans
1953
Where's Raymond?
as Pete Morrisey
1953
Mission Over Korea
as Pvt. Swenson
1953
Stalag 17
as Sgt. 'Hoffy' Hoffman
1953
The Blue Gardenia
as Al
1953
The Happy Time
as Alfred Grattin
1952
Cavalcade of America
as Harry Jordan
1952
Jumping Jacks
as Dogface Dolan
1952
The San Francisco Story
as Shorty
1952
Aladdin and His Lamp
as Mirza
1952
The Wild Blue Yonder
as Cpl. Frenchy
1951
The Stooge
as Ben Bailey
1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Eddie McGuire
1951
Cry Danger
as Delong
1951
You're in the Navy Now
as Ens. Chuck Dorrance
1951
The Men
as Leo
1950
The Admiral Was a Lady
as Oliver 'Ollie' Bonelli
1950
Swiss Tour
as Eddy
1949
Easy Living
as Buddy Morgan
1949
The Time of Your Life
as Willie
1948
Wild Harvest
as Mark Lewis
1947
That Way with Women
as Eddie (as Dick Erdman)
1947
Nobody Lives Forever
as Bellboy, The Marwood Arms
1946
Deception
as Terry Spencer (uncredited)
1946
Shadow of a Woman
as Joe, Counterman at Owl Lunch
1946
Janie Gets Married
as Lt. 'Scooper' Nolan (as Dick Erdman)
1946
Too Young to Know
as Tommy
1945
Danger Signal
as Bunkie Taylor (as Dick Erdman)
1945
Star in the Night
as Middle Cowboy
1945
Objective, Burma!
as Pvt. Nebraska Hooper
1945
Hollywood Canteen
as Soldier on Deck (uncredited)
1944
The Very Thought of You
as Soda Jerk
1944
Musical Movieland
as Sailor with Tour (uncredited)
1944
Janie
as Scooper Nolan (as Dick Erdman)
1944
Mr. Skeffington
as Western Union Boy (uncredited)
1944
The Bag
as John Harper