Richard Erdman
Actor
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.
As Director
Filmography
The Pagemaster
as Pirate (voice) 1994
Stalag 17
as Sgt. 'Hoffy' Hoffman 1953
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Colonel Edward F. French 1970
Trancers
as Drunken Wise Man 1984
Mr. Majestyk
as Dick Richard (uncredited) 1974
Mr. Majestyk
as Dick Richard 1974
The Blue Gardenia
as Al 1953
Objective, Burma!
as Pvt. Nebraska Hooper 1945
The Men
as Leo 1950
Mr. Skeffington
as Western Union Boy (uncredited) 1944
Cry Danger
as Delong 1951
Tomboy
as Chester 1985
Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge
as Mr. Zeider 1981
Deception
as Terry Spencer (uncredited) 1946
Stewardess School
as Attorney 1986
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
as Sid Buckman / Car Wash Manager (voice) 1988
Saddle the Wind
as Dallas Hanson 1958