Richard Erdman
ActingRichard 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
The Pagemaster
Pirate (voice)
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Colonel Edward F. French
Stalag 17
Sgt. 'Hoffy' Hoffman
Mr. Majestyk
Dick Richard (uncredited)
Trancers
Drunken Wise Man
Mr. Skeffington
Western Union Boy (uncredited)
Deception
Terry Spencer (uncredited)
Tomboy
Chester
The Blue Gardenia
Al
Stewardess School
Attorney
Filmography — Acting
The Pagemaster
Pirate (voice)
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Colonel Edward F. French
Stalag 17
Sgt. 'Hoffy' Hoffman
Mr. Majestyk
Dick Richard (uncredited)
Trancers
Drunken Wise Man
Mr. Skeffington
Western Union Boy (uncredited)
Deception
Terry Spencer (uncredited)
Tomboy
Chester
The Blue Gardenia
Al
Stewardess School
Attorney
The Stooge
Ben Bailey
Rascal
Walt Dabbett
The Men
Leo
Cry Danger
Delong
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
actor 'Stalag 17' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Francis in the Navy
Murph
Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge
Mr. Zeider
Hollywood Canteen
Soldier on Deck (uncredited)
Jumping Jacks
Dogface Dolan
Objective, Burma!
Pvt. Nebraska Hooper
Valet Girls
Waiter
Saddle the Wind
Dallas Hanson
Visions...
Ellis
Shadow of a Woman
Joe, Counterman at Owl Lunch
You're in the Navy Now
Ens. Chuck Dorrance
Anything Goes
Ed Brent
Kate McShane
Frederick de Fernando
The Admiral Was a Lady
Oliver 'Ollie' Bonelli
Danger Signal
Bunkie Taylor (as Dick Erdman)
The Time of Your Life
Willie
Wild Harvest
Mark Lewis
Star in the Night
Middle Cowboy
Bengazi
Selby
The Brass Bottle
Seymour Jenks
Face of Fire
Al Williams
Nobody Lives Forever
Bellboy, The Marwood Arms
Namu, the Killer Whale
Deke
Jesse
Dr. Adams
The Wild Blue Yonder
Cpl. Frenchy
Heidi's Song
Herr Sessman (voice)
The Steel Lady
Jim Evans
The San Francisco Story
Shorty
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
Sid Buckman / Car Wash Manager (voice)
The Power and the Prize
Lester Everett
Easy Living
Buddy Morgan
My Town
Fletcher Mays
The Very Thought of You
Soda Jerk
That Way with Women
Eddie (as Dick Erdman)
Brothers O'Toole
Judge Quincey P. Trumbell
Musical Movieland
Sailor with Tour (uncredited)
The Great Man's Whiskers
Joseph Somerby
The Secret World of Og
Pirate #1
The Happy Time
Alfred Grattin
Empire State Building Murders
Eddie Walker
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
Self
Janie
Scooper Nolan (as Dick Erdman)
Aladdin and His Lamp
Mirza
The Rawhide Trail
Rupe Pardee
Mission Over Korea
Pvt. Swenson
Timeless Tales: The Emperor's New Clothes
Janie Gets Married
Lt. 'Scooper' Nolan (as Dick Erdman)
Swiss Tour
Eddy
Too Young to Know
Tommy
So You Want to Play the Horses
Eddie (uncredited)
The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada
Host and narrator
The Bag
John Harper
