Acting · Enid, Oklahoma, USA · Born June 1, 1925
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.
MovieHollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
2021
as Self
TVDr. Ken
2015
as Richard Erdman
TVWeird Loners
2015
as Carl's Grandfather
TVCommunity
2009
as Leonard
Empire State Building Murders
2008
as Eddie Walker
TVJoan of Arcadia
2003
as Mr. Hanson
TVBoomtown
2002
as Kevin's Dad
TVThe Bernie Mac Show
2001
as Frank
TVJudging Amy
1999
as Mr. Callahan
TVFelicity
1998
as Howie
MovieThe Pagemaster
1994
as Pirate (voice)
TVBatman: The Animated Series
1992
as Elliot (voice)
MoviePreminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
as actor 'Stalag 17' (archive footage) (uncredited)
TVBeverly Hills, 90210
1990
as Mr. Perl
MovieTimeless Tales: The Emperor's New Clothes
1990
TVWings
1990
as Howard Banks
MovieJesse
1988
as Dr. Adams
MovieTop Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
1988
as Sid Buckman / Car Wash Manager (voice)
TVShe's the Sheriff
1987
as Frank Rubin
TVDuckTales
1987
as King Arty (voice)
MovieValet Girls
1987
as Waiter
MovieStewardess School
1986
as Attorney
MovieMy Town
1986
as Fletcher Mays
MovieTomboy
1985
as Chester
MovieTrancers
1984
as Drunken Wise Man
TVMurder, She Wrote
1984
as Jonathan
MovieThe Secret World of Og
1983
as Pirate #1
MovieHeidi's Song
1982
as Herr Sessman (voice)
TVRemington Steele
1982
as Bert the Coroner
TVCheers
1982
as Duncan Fitzgerald
TVCassie & Co.
1982
as George Davenport
TVSpace Stars
1981
as Additional Voices (voice)
MovieSpider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge
1981
as Mr. Zeider
TVThe Amazing Spider-Man
1978
as Mr. Zeider
TVLou Grant
1977
TVQuincy, M.E.
1976
TVThe Bionic Woman
1976
MovieKate McShane
1975
as Frederick de Fernando
MovieMr. Majestyk
1974
as Dick Richard (uncredited)
TVThe Six Million Dollar Man
1974
as Slayton
MovieBrothers O'Toole
1973
as Judge Quincey P. Trumbell
TVPolice Story
1973
MovieVisions...
1972
as Ellis
MovieThe Great Man's Whiskers
1972
as Joseph Somerby
MovieTora! Tora! Tora!
1970
as Colonel Edward F. French
MovieRascal
1969
as Walt Dabbett
TVHere's Lucy
1968
as Clerk
TVMayberry R.F.D.
1968
as Frank Wylie
TVMr. Terrific
1967
as Manny
TVThat Girl
1966
MovieNamu, the Killer Whale
1966
as Deke
TVI Dream of Jeannie
1965
as Store Manager
TVHogan's Heroes
1965
as Walter Hobson
TVThe Wild Wild West
1965
as Mordecai Krone
TVGreen Acres
1965
TVGomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
1964
TVThe Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
as P.T. Barkley
MovieThe Brass Bottle
1964
as Seymour Jenks
TVPetticoat Junction
1963
as Colonel Millbank
MovieThe Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada
1963
as Host and narrator
TVThe Beverly Hillbillies
1962
TVSaints and Sinners
1962
as Klugie
TVThe Dick Van Dyke Show
1961
as Buck Brown
TVMister Ed
1961
TVThe Tab Hunter Show
1960
as Richard Fairfield III
Not for Hire
1959
TVThe Twilight Zone
1959
as Patrick McNulty
MovieFace of Fire
1959
as Al Williams
MovieSaddle the Wind
1958
as Dallas Hanson
MovieThe Rawhide Trail
1958
as Rupe Pardee
TVPerry Mason
1957
as Arthur Binney
TVPanic!
1957
TVWest Point
1956
MovieThe Power and the Prize
1956
as Lester Everett
MovieAnything Goes
1956
as Ed Brent
TVMatinee Theater
1955
TVAlfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Charlie Brown
TVNavy Log
1955
MovieBengazi
1955
as Selby
MovieFrancis in the Navy
1955
as Murph
TVScience Fiction Theatre
1955
TVDecember Bride
1954
MovieThe Steel Lady
1953
as Jim Evans
TVWhere's Raymond?
1953
as Pete Morrisey
MovieMission Over Korea
1953
as Pvt. Swenson
MovieStalag 17
1953
as Sgt. 'Hoffy' Hoffman
MovieThe Blue Gardenia
1953
as Al
MovieThe Happy Time
1952
as Alfred Grattin
TVCavalcade of America
1952
as Harry Jordan
MovieJumping Jacks
1952
as Dogface Dolan
MovieThe San Francisco Story
1952
as Shorty
MovieAladdin and His Lamp
1952
as Mirza
MovieThe Wild Blue Yonder
1951
as Cpl. Frenchy
MovieThe Stooge
1951
as Ben Bailey
TVSchlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
as Eddie McGuire
MovieCry Danger
1951
as Delong
MovieYou're in the Navy Now
1951
as Ens. Chuck Dorrance
MovieThe Men
1950
as Leo
MovieThe Admiral Was a Lady
1950
as Oliver 'Ollie' Bonelli
MovieSwiss Tour
1949
as Eddy
MovieEasy Living
1949
as Buddy Morgan
MovieThe Time of Your Life
1948
as Willie
MovieWild Harvest
1947
as Mark Lewis
MovieThat Way with Women
1947
as Eddie (as Dick Erdman)
MovieNobody Lives Forever
1946
as Bellboy, The Marwood Arms
MovieDeception
1946
as Terry Spencer (uncredited)
So You Want to Play the Horses
1946
as Eddie (uncredited)
MovieShadow of a Woman
1946
as Joe, Counterman at Owl Lunch
MovieJanie Gets Married
1946
as Lt. 'Scooper' Nolan (as Dick Erdman)
MovieToo Young to Know
1945
as Tommy
MovieDanger Signal
1945
as Bunkie Taylor (as Dick Erdman)
MovieStar in the Night
1945
as Middle Cowboy
MovieObjective, Burma!
1945
as Pvt. Nebraska Hooper
MovieHollywood Canteen
1944
as Soldier on Deck (uncredited)
MovieThe Very Thought of You
1944
as Soda Jerk
MovieMusical Movieland
1944
as Sailor with Tour (uncredited)
MovieJanie
1944
as Scooper Nolan (as Dick Erdman)
MovieMr. Skeffington
1944
as Western Union Boy (uncredited)
MovieThe Bag
as John Harper
