Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1925-06-01
Day of Death
2019-03-16
Place of Birth
Enid, Oklahoma, USA
Richard Erdman
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.
Filmography (66)
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
2021Empire State Building Murders
2008
The Pagemaster
1994
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
Timeless Tales: The Emperor's New Clothes
1990
Jesse
1988
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
1988
Valet Girls
1987
Stewardess School
1986
My Town
1986
Tomboy
1985
Trancers
1984
The Secret World of Og
1983
Heidi's Song
1982
