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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 1, 1925
Died
March 16, 2019
Place of Birth
Enid, Oklahoma, USA
Also Known As
- John Richard Erdmann
- Dick Erdman
Richard Erdman
0.8 Popularity
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 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.
Known For
4.7
Self
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
2021
5.6
Richard Erdman
Dr. Ken
2015
6.1
Carl's Grandfather
Weird Loners
2015
8.0
Leonard
Community
2009
🎬
0.0
Eddie Walker
Empire State Building Murders
2008
7.3
Mr. Hanson
Joan of Arcadia
2003
6.2
Kevin's Dad
Boomtown
2002
6.5
Frank
The Bernie Mac Show
2001
7.5
Mr. Callahan
Judging Amy
1999
6.6
Howie
Felicity
1998
Credits
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
as Self
2021
4.7
Dr. Ken
as Richard Erdman
2015
5.6
Weird Loners
as Carl's Grandfather
2015
6.1
Community
as Leonard
2009
8.0
🎬
Empire State Building Murders
as Eddie Walker
2008
0.0
Joan of Arcadia
as Mr. Hanson
2003
7.3
Boomtown
as Kevin's Dad
2002
6.2
The Bernie Mac Show
as Frank
2001
6.5
Judging Amy
as Mr. Callahan
1999
7.5
Felicity
as Howie
1998
6.6
The Pagemaster
as Pirate (voice)
1994
6.4
Batman: The Animated Series
as Elliot (voice)
1992
8.6
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as actor 'Stalag 17' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1991
7.7
Beverly Hills, 90210
as Mr. Perl
1990
7.3
Wings
as Howard Banks
1990
6.9
Jesse
as Dr. Adams
1988
7.0
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
as Sid Buckman / Car Wash Manager (voice)
1988
6.5
She's the Sheriff
as Frank Rubin
1987
5.0
DuckTales
as Mayor Rufus B. Pinfeathers (voice)
1987
7.7
DuckTales
as King Arty (voice)
1987
7.7
Valet Girls
as Waiter
1987
3.3
Stewardess School
as Attorney
1986
4.8
My Town
as Fletcher Mays
1986
0.0
Tomboy
as Chester
1985
4.8
Trancers
as Drunken Wise Man
1984
5.9
Murder, She Wrote
as Jonathan
1984
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
as Eggman
1984
7.5
The Secret World of Og
as Pirate #1
1983
4.2
Heidi's Song
as Herr Sessman (voice)
1982
6.0
Remington Steele
as Bert the Coroner
1982
7.1
Cheers
as Duncan Fitzgerald
1982
7.6
Space Stars
as Additional Voices (voice)
1981
8.0
Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge
as Mr. Zeider
1981
5.5
The Amazing Spider-Man
1978
6.2
Lou Grant
1977
7.3
Quincy, M.E.
1976
7.5
The Bionic Woman
1976
6.9
Kate McShane
as Frederick de Fernando
1975
0.0
Mr. Majestyk
as Dick Richard (uncredited)
1974
6.8
Mr. Majestyk
as Dick Richard
1974
6.8
The Six Million Dollar Man
as Slayton
1974
7.3
The Six Million Dollar Man
as Vernon
1974
7.3
Brothers O'Toole
as Judge Quincey P. Trumbell
1973
5.2
Police Story
1973
6.9
Visions...
as Ellis
1972
0.0
The Great Man's Whiskers
as Joseph Somerby
1972
0.0
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Colonel Edward F. French
1970
7.1
Rascal
as Walt Dabbett
1969
5.8
Here's Lucy
as Clerk
1968
6.7
Mayberry R.F.D.
as Frank Wylie
1968
5.7
Mr. Terrific
as Manny
1967
7.5
That Girl
1966
6.1
Namu, the Killer Whale
as Deke
1966
4.6
I Dream of Jeannie
as Store Manager
1965
7.8
Hogan's Heroes
as Walter Hobson
1965
7.5
The Wild Wild West
as Mordecai Krone
1965
7.6
Green Acres
1965
7.3
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
1964
7.0
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as P.T. Barkley
1964
7.1
The Brass Bottle
as Seymour Jenks
1964
6.1
Petticoat Junction
as Colonel Millbank
1963
5.7
The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada
as Host and narrator
1963
0.0
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
6.9
Saints and Sinners
as Klugie
1962
6.0
The Dick Van Dyke Show
as Buck Brown
1961
7.5
Mister Ed
1961
6.7
The Tab Hunter Show
as Richard Fairfield III
1960
5.0
🎬
Not for Hire
1959
0.0
The Twilight Zone
as Patrick McNulty
1959
8.5
Face of Fire
as Al Williams
1959
5.6
Saddle the Wind
as Dallas Hanson
1958
6.5
The Rawhide Trail
as Rupe Pardee
1958
0.0
Perry Mason
as Arthur Binney
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Jim West
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Charles (Monty) Montrose
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Harry Niles
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Ben Lucas
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Jud Bennett
1957
7.7
Panic!
1957
0.0
West Point
1956
5.0
The Power and the Prize
as Lester Everett
1956
5.5
Anything Goes
as Ed Brent
1956
6.0
Matinee Theater
1955
5.0
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Charlie Brown
1955
7.8
🎬
Navy Log
1955
4.5
Bengazi
as Selby
1955
3.4
Francis in the Navy
as Murph
1955
5.4
Science Fiction Theatre
1955
6.2
December Bride
1954
5.5
The Steel Lady
as Jim Evans
1953
6.4
Where's Raymond?
as Pete Morrisey
1953
7.0
Mission Over Korea
as Pvt. Swenson
1953
3.0
Stalag 17
as Sgt. 'Hoffy' Hoffman
1953
7.7
The Blue Gardenia
as Al
1953
6.5
The Happy Time
as Alfred Grattin
1952
6.3
Cavalcade of America
as Harry Jordan
1952
3.5
Jumping Jacks
as Dogface Dolan
1952
6.4
The San Francisco Story
as Shorty
1952
4.6
Aladdin and His Lamp
as Mirza
1952
0.0
The Wild Blue Yonder
as Cpl. Frenchy
1951
6.0
The Stooge
as Ben Bailey
1951
6.6
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Eddie McGuire
1951
7.2
You're in the Navy Now
as Ens. Chuck Dorrance
1951
4.4
Cry Danger
as Delong
1951
6.6
The Men
as Leo
1950
7.0
The Admiral Was a Lady
as Oliver 'Ollie' Bonelli
1950
6.1
Swiss Tour
as Eddy
1949
8.0
Easy Living
as Buddy Morgan
1949
5.6
The Time of Your Life
as Willie
1948
5.5
Wild Harvest
as Mark Lewis
1947
0.0
That Way with Women
as Eddie (as Dick Erdman)
1947
6.2
Nobody Lives Forever
as Bellboy, The Marwood Arms
1946
6.2
Deception
as Terry Spencer (uncredited)
1946
6.5
🎬
So You Want to Play the Horses
as Eddie (uncredited)
1946
6.0
Shadow of a Woman
as Joe, Counterman at Owl Lunch
1946
4.3
Janie Gets Married
as Lt. 'Scooper' Nolan (as Dick Erdman)
1946
6.0
Too Young to Know
as Tommy
1945
0.0
Danger Signal
as Bunkie Taylor (as Dick Erdman)
1945
5.8
Star in the Night
as Middle Cowboy
1945
7.4
Objective, Burma!
as Pvt. Nebraska Hooper
1945
6.8
Hollywood Canteen
as Soldier on Deck (uncredited)
1944
7.3
The Very Thought of You
as Soda Jerk
1944
6.2
Musical Movieland
as Sailor with Tour (uncredited)
1944
6.0
Janie
as Scooper Nolan (as Dick Erdman)
1944
5.5
Mr. Skeffington
as Western Union Boy (uncredited)
1944
6.7
The Bag
as John Harper
N/A
0.0