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
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.
Born
Jun 01, 1925
Enid, Oklahoma, USA
Died
Mar 16, 2019
Known For
Acting
Movies
67 acting
5 crew
Popularity
1.3
Known For
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
as Colonel Edward F. French
The Pagemaster
1994
as Pirate (voice)
Trancers
1984
as Drunken Wise Man
Mr. Majestyk
1974
as Dick Richard (uncredited)
Mr. Majestyk
1974
as Dick Richard
Stalag 17
1953
as Hoffy Hoffman
The Blue Gardenia
1953
as Al
Objective, Burma!
1945
as Pvt. Nebraska Hooper
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