Richard Erdman

Known for ActingBorn 1925-06-01Died 2019-03-16Enid, Oklahoma, USA

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.Read more

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Teenage Tease

Aladdin and His Lamp

Batman: The Animated Series

Swiss Tour

Jesse

The Twilight Zone

Community

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

The Great Man's Whiskers

Space Stars

The Rawhide Trail

Panic!

DuckTales

Judging Amy

I Dream of Jeannie

Joan of Arcadia

Cheers

Mr. Terrific

Murder, She Wrote

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Perry Mason

Quincy, M.E.

The Wild Wild West

The Dick Van Dyke Show

Where's Raymond?

Stalag 17

Hogan's Heroes

Beverly Hills, 90210

Lou Grant

The Tab Hunter Show

West Point

The Six Million Dollar Man

Star in the Night

Remington Steele

Tora! Tora! Tora!

My Town

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Green Acres

The Bionic Woman

Wings

Janie Gets Married

Kate McShane

Hollywood Canteen

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

Police Story

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

The Bernie Mac Show