Richard Erdman
Birthday
1925/06/01
Day of death
2019/03/16 (93 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Enid, Oklahoma, USA
Also know as
John Richard Erdmann , Dick 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 ...Read more
Acting
(1953) Stalag 17
as Sgt. 'Hoffy' Hoffman
(1985) Tomboy
as Chester
(1950) The Men
as Leo
(1970) Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Colonel Edward F. French
(1953) The Blue Gardenia
as Al
(1951) Cry Danger
as Delong
(1946) Nobody Lives Forever
as Bellboy, The Marwood Arms
(1945) Danger Signal
as Bunkie Taylor (as Dick Erdman)
(1946) Deception
as Terry Spencer (uncredited)
(1994) The Pagemaster
as Pirate (voice)
(1952) Jumping Jacks
as Dogface Dolan
(1945) Objective, Burma!
as Pvt. Nebraska Hooper
(1950) The Admiral Was a Lady
as Oliver 'Ollie' Bonelli
(1955) Francis in the Navy
as Murph
(1946) Shadow of a Woman
as Joe, Counterman at Owl Lunch
(1981) Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge
as Mr. Zeider
(2008) Empire State Building Murders
as Eddie Walker
(1969) Rascal
as Walt Dabbett
(1966) Namu, the Killer Whale
as Deke
(1982) Heidi's Song
as Grimm (voice)
(1951) The Stooge
as Ben Bailey
(1949) Easy Living
as Buddy Morgan
(1949) Swiss Tour
as Eddy
(1972) Visions...
as Ellis
(1947) That Way with Women
as Eddie (as Dick Erdman)
(1951) The Wild Blue Yonder
as Cpl. Frenchy
(1983) The Secret World of OG
as Pirate #1
(1952) The San Francisco Story
as Shorty
(1944) The Very Thought of You
as Soda Jerk
(1952) The Happy Time
as Alfred Grattin
(1946) Janie Gets Married
as Lt. 'Scooper' Nolan (as Dick Erdman)
(1944) Janie
as Scooper Nolan (as Dick Erdman)
(1986) My Town
as Fletcher Mays
(1948) The Time of Your Life
as Willie
(1951) You're in the Navy Now
as Ens. Chuck Dorrance
(1988) Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
as Sid Buckman / Car Wash Manager (voice)
(1955) Bengazi
as Selby
(1986) Stewardess School
as Attorney
(1975) Kate McShane
as Frederick de Fernando
(1958) Saddle the Wind
as Dallas Hanson
(1958) The Rawhide Trail
as Rupe Pardee
(1964) The Brass Bottle
as Seymour Jenks
(2021) Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
as Self
(1953) The Steel Lady
as Jim Evans
(1953) Mission Over Korea
as Pvt. Swenson
(1945) Too Young to Know
as Tommy
(1944) Hollywood Canteen
as Soldier on Deck (uncredited)
(1959) Face of Fire
as Al Williams
(1974) Mr. Majestyk
as Dick Richard (uncredited)
(1944) Mr. Skeffington
as Western Union Boy (uncredited)
(1947) Wild Harvest
as Mark Lewis
(1984) Trancers
as Drunken Wise Man
(1987) Valet Girls
as Waiter
(1956) Anything Goes
as Ed Brent
(1974) Mr. Majestyk
as Dick Richard
(1952) Aladdin and His Lamp
as Mirza
(1946) So You Want to Play the Horses
as Eddie (uncredited)
(1991) Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as actor 'Stalag 17' (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1944) Musical Movieland
as Sailor with Tour (uncredited)
(1972) The Great Man's Whiskers
as Joseph Somerby
(1945) Star in the Night
as Middle Cowboy
(1973) Brothers O'Toole
as Judge Quincey P. Trumbell
(1963) The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada
as Host and narrator
The Bag
as John Harper
(1961) Mister Ed
as ---
(1977) Lou Grant
as ---
(1982) Remington Steele
as Bert the Coroner
(1965) Green Acres
as ---
(1954) December Bride
as ---
(1968) Here's Lucy
as Clerk
(2002) Boomtown
as Kevin's Dad
(2003) Joan of Arcadia
as ---
(1999) Judging Amy
as Mr. Callahan
(1990) Beverly Hills, 90210
as ---
(2001) The Bernie Mac Show
as Frank
(1976) The Bionic Woman
as ---
(1966) That Girl
as ---
(1962) The Beverly Hillbillies
as ---
(1976) Quincy, M.E.
as ---
(1964) Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
as ---
(1990) Wings
as Howard Banks
(1963) Petticoat Junction
as Colonel Millbank
(1957) Perry Mason
as Arthur Binney
(1978) The Amazing Spider-Man
as ---
(1959) The Twilight Zone
as Patrick McNulty
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Charlie Brown
(1960) The Tab Hunter Show
as Richard Fairfield III
(1973) Police Story
as ---
(1981) Space Stars
as Additional Voices (voice)
(1956) West Point
as ---
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Eddie McGuire
(1955) Matinee Theater
as ---
(1955) Navy Log
as ---
(1962) Saints and Sinners
as Klugie
(1953) Where's Raymond?
as Pete Morrisey
(1957) Panic!
as ---
(1992) Batman: The Animated Series
as Elliot (voice)
(1959) Not for Hire
as ---
(2009) Community
as Leonard
(1952) Cavalcade of America
as Harry Jordan
(1998) Felicity
as Howie
(1967) Mr. Terrific
as Manny
(2015) Dr. Ken
as Richard Erdman
(1968) Mayberry R.F.D.
as Frank Wylie
(1974) The Six Million Dollar Man
as Slayton
(1974) The Six Million Dollar Man
as Vernon
(1957) Perry Mason
as Jim West
(1957) Perry Mason
as Charles (Monty) Montrose
(1957) Perry Mason
as Harry Niles
(1957) Perry Mason
as Ben Lucas
(1957) Perry Mason
as Jud Bennett
(1955) Science Fiction Theatre
as ---
(1965) Hogan's Heroes
as Walter Hobson
(1987) DuckTales
as King Arty (voice)
(1987) DuckTales
as Mayor Rufus B. Pinfeathers (voice)
(1965) The Wild Wild West
as Mordecai Krone
(1965) I Dream of Jeannie
as Store Manager
(1982) Cheers
as Duncan Fitzgerald
(1984) Murder, She Wrote
as Jonathan
(1984) Murder, She Wrote
as Eggman
(1961) The Dick Van Dyke Show
as Buck Brown