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.
65 movies · 53 shows
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
2021·4.7
Empire State Building Murders
2008·0.0
The Pagemaster
1994·6.4
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991·8.0
Timeless Tales: The Emperor's New Clothes
1990·6.0
Jesse
1988·8.5
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
1988·6.7
Valet Girls
1987·4.3
Stewardess School
1986·4.9
My Town
1986·7.0
Tomboy
1985·4.9
Trancers
1984·5.9
The Secret World of Og
1983·5.6
Heidi's Song
1982·6.3
Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge
1981·5.5
Kate McShane
1975·7.0
Mr. Majestyk
1974·6.8
Brothers O'Toole
1973·6.0
Visions...
1972·10.0
The Great Man's Whiskers
1972·8.0
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970·7.2
Rascal
1969·6.0
Namu, the Killer Whale
1966·5.3
The Brass Bottle
1964·6.3
The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada
1963·0.0
Face of Fire
1959·5.8
Saddle the Wind
1958·6.7
The Rawhide Trail
1958·8.0
The Power and the Prize
1956·6.3
Anything Goes
1956·6.0
Bengazi
1955·4.2
Francis in the Navy
1955·5.6
The Steel Lady
1953·6.6
Mission Over Korea
1953·6.0
Stalag 17
1953·7.7
The Blue Gardenia
1953·6.5
The Happy Time
1952·6.5
Jumping Jacks
1952·6.5
The San Francisco Story
1952·4.9
Aladdin and His Lamp
1952·9.0
The Wild Blue Yonder
1951·7.0
The Stooge
1951·6.7
Cry Danger
1951·6.7
You're in the Navy Now
1951·5.4
The Men
1950·7.0
The Admiral Was a Lady
1950·6.4
Swiss Tour
1949·9.0
Easy Living
1949·5.7
The Time of Your Life
1948·6.1
Wild Harvest
1947·7.0
That Way with Women
1947·6.7
Nobody Lives Forever
1946·6.4
Deception
1946·6.7
So You Want to Play the Horses
1946·6.5
Shadow of a Woman
1946·4.5
Janie Gets Married
1946·7.3
Too Young to Know
1945·7.0
Danger Signal
1945·6.0
Star in the Night
1945·7.5
Objective, Burma!
1945·6.9
Hollywood Canteen
1944·7.3
The Very Thought of You
1944·6.4
Musical Movieland
1944·6.7
Janie
1944·6.0
Mr. Skeffington
1944·6.8