Richard Erdman
Actor
- Born
- June 1, 1925 · Enid, Oklahoma, USA
- Died
- March 16, 2019 (age 93)
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.
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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.
Known for
The Pagemaster
November 23, 1994
Stalag 17
May 29, 1953
Tora! Tora! Tora!
January 26, 1970
Trancers
November 7, 1984
Mr. Majestyk
July 17, 1974
Objective, Burma!
February 17, 1945
The Blue Gardenia
March 20, 1953
The Men
August 25, 1950
Mr. Skeffington
May 25, 1944
Tomboy
January 25, 1985
Cry Danger
February 23, 1951
Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge
December 5, 1980
Acting66
- 2021Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists! as Self
- 2008Empire State Building Murders as Eddie Walker
- 1994The Pagemaster as Pirate (voice)
- 1991Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as actor 'Stalag 17' (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1990Timeless Tales: The Emperor's New Clothes
- 1988Jesse as Dr. Adams
- 1988Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats as Sid Buckman / Car Wash Manager (voice)
- 1987Valet Girls as Waiter
- 1986Stewardess School as Attorney
- 1986