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