Richard Erdman

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Richard Erdman

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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.

Films Featuring Richard Erdman

Stalag 17

19537.7

Tomboy

19854.9

The Men

19507.0

Tora! Tora! Tora!

19707.2

The Blue Gardenia

19536.5

Cry Danger

19516.7

Nobody Lives Forever

19466.4

Danger Signal

19456.0

Deception

19466.7

The Pagemaster

19946.4

Jumping Jacks

19526.5

Objective, Burma!

19456.9

The Admiral Was a Lady

19506.4

Francis in the Navy

19555.6

Shadow of a Woman

19464.5

Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge

19815.4

Empire State Building Murders

Empire State Building Murders

2008

Rascal

19696.0

Namu, the Killer Whale

19665.3

Heidi's Song

19826.3

The Stooge

19516.7

Easy Living

19495.7

Swiss Tour

19499.0

Visions...

197210.0

That Way with Women

19476.7

The Wild Blue Yonder

19517.0

The Secret World of Og

19835.6

The San Francisco Story

19524.9

The Very Thought of You

19446.4

The Happy Time

19526.5

Janie Gets Married

19467.3

Janie

19446.0

My Town

19867.0

The Time of Your Life

19486.1

Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats

19886.8

You're in the Navy Now

19515.4

Bengazi

19554.2

Stewardess School

19864.9

Kate McShane

19757.0

Saddle the Wind

19586.7

The Rawhide Trail

19588.0

The Brass Bottle

19646.3

Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!

20214.7

The Steel Lady

19536.6

Mission Over Korea

19536.0

Too Young to Know

19457.0

Hollywood Canteen

19447.3

Face of Fire

19595.8

Mr. Majestyk

19746.8

Mr. Skeffington

19446.8

Wild Harvest

19477.0

Trancers

19845.9

Valet Girls

19874.3

Anything Goes

19566.0

Mr. Majestyk

19746.8

Aladdin and His Lamp

19529.0

So You Want to Play the Horses

So You Want to Play the Horses

19466.5

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

19918.0

Musical Movieland

19446.7

The Great Man's Whiskers

19728.0

Star in the Night

19457.5

Brothers O'Toole

19736.0

The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada

1963

The Bag

The Power and the Prize

19566.3

Jesse

19888.5

Timeless Tales: The Emperor's New Clothes

19906.0