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Richard Erdman

Actor | * 06/01/1925 († 93, 03/16/2019) | Enid, Oklahoma (United States of America (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.

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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Kids & Family

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In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead ...

Tora! Tora! Tora!

G

1970 | 3.6/5 | 2h 24min
Drama, History, War
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It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all sergeants, have to deal with a grave problem—there seems to be a security leak. ...

Stalag 17

NR

1953 | 3.9/5 | 2h
Comedy, Thriller, War
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A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous a ...

Objective, Burma!

NR

1945 | 3.5/5 | 2h 22min
Action, Drama, War
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After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles. Under a new identity and claiming to be a writer ...

Danger Signal

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1945 | 2.6/5 | 1h 18min
Crime, Drama, Romance / Love
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Movies with Richard Erdman as Actor(58)

as Eddie Walker2008 Empire State Building Murders
as Pirate (voice)1994 The Pagemaster
as actor 'Stalag 17' (archive footage) (uncredited)1991 Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as Sid Buckman / Car Wash Manager (voice)1988 Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
as Waiter1987 Valet Girls
as Fletcher Mays1986 My Town
as Chester1985 Tomboy
as Drunken Wise Man1984 Trancers
as Pirate #11983 The Secret World of OG
as Herr Sessman1982 Heidi's Song
as Mr. Zeider1981 Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge
as Frederick de Fernando1975 Kate McShane
as Dick Richard (uncredited)1974 Mr. Majestyk
as Judge Quincey P. Trumbell1973 Brothers O'Toole
as Joseph Somerby1972 The Great Man's Whiskers
as Colonel Edward F. French1970 Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Walt Dabbett1969 Rascal
as Deke1966 Namu, the Killer Whale
as Seymour Jenks1964 The Brass Bottle
as Host and narrator1963 The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada
as Al Williams1959 Face of Fire
as Dallas Hanson1958 Saddle the Wind
as Rupe Pardee1958 The Rawhide Trail
as Ed Brent1956 Anything Goes
as Selby1955 Bengazi
as Murph1955 Francis in the Navy
as Al1953 The Blue Gardenia
as Sgt. 'Hoffy' Hoffman1953 Stalag 17
as Pvt. Swenson1953 Mission Over Korea
as Jim Evans1953 The Steel Lady
as Ben Bailey1952 The Stooge
as Dogface Dolan1952 Jumping Jacks
as Alfred Grattin1952 The Happy Time
as Shorty1952 The San Francisco Story
as Mirza1952 Aladdin and His Lamp
as Cpl. Frenchy1951 The Wild Blue Yonder
as Ens. Chuck Dorrance1951 You're in the Navy Now
as Delong1951 Cry Danger
as Leo1950 The Men
as Oliver 'Ollie' Bonelli1950 The Admiral Was a Lady
as Buddy Morgan1949 Easy Living
as Willie1948 The Time of Your Life
as Mark Lewis1947 Wild Harvest
as Eddie (as Dick Erdman)1947 That Way with Women
as Eddie (uncredited)1946 So You Want to Play the Horses
as Bellboy, The Marwood Arms1946 Nobody Lives Forever
as Joe, Counterman at Owl Lunch1946 Shadow of a Woman
as Terry Spencer (uncredited)1946 Deception
as Lt. 'Scooper' Nolan (as Dick Erdman)1946 Janie Gets Married
as Bunkie Taylor (as Dick Erdman)1945 Danger Signal
as Pvt. Nebraska Hooper1945 Objective, Burma!
as Tommy1945 Too Young to Know
as Middle Cowboy1945 Star in the Night
as Sailor with Tour (uncredited)1944 Musical Movieland
as Western Union Boy (uncredited)1944 Mr. Skeffington
as Scooper Nolan (as Dick Erdman)1944 Janie
as Soldier on Deck (uncredited)1944 Hollywood Canteen
as Soda Jerk1944 The Very Thought of You

TV Shows/Series with Richard Erdman as Actor(45)

as Leonard2009 Community
2003 Joan of Arcadia
as Kevin's Dad2002 Boomtown
2001 The Bernie Mac Show
as Mr. Callahan1999 Judging Amy
as Elliot (voice)1992 Batman: The Animated Series
1990 Wings
1990 Beverly Hills, 90210
as King Arty (voice)1987 DuckTales
as Mayor Rufus B. Pinfeathers (voice)1987 DuckTales
as Eggman1984 Murder, She Wrote
as Bert the Coroner1982 Remington Steele
as Additional Voices (voice)1981 Space Stars
1977 Lou Grant
1976 The Bionic Woman
1976 Quincy, M.E.
1973 Police Story
1968 Here's Lucy
as Manny1967 Mr. Terrific
1966 That Girl
1965 Green Acres
as Store Manager1965 I Dream of Jeannie
1965 Hogan's Heroes
1964 Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
1963 Petticoat Junction
as Klugie1962 Saints and Sinners
1962 The Beverly Hillbillies
1961 Mister Ed
as Richard Fairfield III1960 The Tab Hunter Show
1959 The Twilight Zone
as Arthur Binney1957 Perry Mason
as Jim West1957 Perry Mason
as Charles (Monty) Montrose1957 Perry Mason
as Harry Niles1957 Perry Mason
as Ben Lucas1957 Perry Mason
as Jud Bennett1957 Perry Mason
1956 West Point
1955 Science Fiction Theatre
1955 Navy Log
as Charlie Brown1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 Matinee Theater
1954 December Bride
1953 Where's Raymond?
as Harry Jordan1952 Cavalcade of America
as Eddie McGuire1951 Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Movies with Richard Erdman as Crew(5)

Production/Co-Producer1991 The Dark Wind
Directing/Director1973 Brothers O'Toole
Directing/Director1971 Mooch Goes to Hollywood
Directing/Director1971 Teenage Tease
Production/Producer1963 The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada

Full Name: Richard Erdman
Born: Monday, 06/01 1925 (June) in Enid, Oklahoma (United States of America (USA))
Died: Saturday, 03/16 2019 (March) in Los Angeles (aged: 93)
Zodiac sign: Gemini (Chinese zodiac sign: Ox)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Other names for Richard Erdman (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"John Richard Erdmann"
"Dick Erdman"
Richard Erdman frequently works together with these people:
Dabbs Greer (20x, Actor)
Percy Helton (20x, Actor)
Raymond Bailey (19x, Actor)
J. Pat O'Malley (18x, Actor)
Robert McCord (18x, Actor)
Jesse White (18x, Actor)
Bartlett Robinson (18x, Actor)
John Hoyt (17x, Actor)
John Bryant (17x, Actor)
Jeanette Nolan (16x, Actress)
Harry Tyler (16x, Actor)
Jack L. Warner (9x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:8155, Added: 05/06/2018, Last updated: 02/23/2026