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