Richard Erdman
Acting
🎂 1925-06-01
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.
Cast credits(124)
1955
Buck Brown
1961
Frank Wylie
1968
1990
Slayton
1974
Vernon
1974
Clerk
1968
Store Manager
1965
Walter Hobson
1965
1977
1961
Duncan Fitzgerald
1982
1976
Arthur Binney
1957
Jim West
1957
Charles (Monty) Montrose
1957
Harry Niles
1957
Ben Lucas
1957
Jud Bennett
1957
Mordecai Krone
1965
Jonathan
1984
Eggman
1984
Leonard
2009
Mayor Rufus B. Pinfeathers (voice)
1987
King Arty (voice)
1987
Elliot (voice)
1992
1955
1962
Howard Banks
1990
2003
Patrick McNulty
1959
1955
1954
1976
1964
1959
1973
Bert the Coroner
1982
1956
Mr. Callahan
1999
Howie
1998
Colonel Millbank
1963
Manny
1967
1966
1957
Charlie Brown
1955
Frank
2001
1965
Klugie
1962
Richard Erdman
2015
Additional Voices (voice)
1981
Pete Morrisey
1953
Harry Jordan
1952
1978
Carl's Grandfather
2015
Kevin's Dad
2002
Eddie McGuire
1951
Joe, Counterman at Owl Lunch
1946
Pirate (voice)
1994
Colonel Edward F. French
1970
Richard Fairfield III
1960
Drunken Wise Man
1984
Delong
1951
Sgt. 'Hoffy' Hoffman
1953
Dallas Hanson
1958
Dick Richard (uncredited)
1974
Dick Richard
1974
Al
1953
Chester
1985
Self
2021
Seymour Jenks
1964
Pvt. Nebraska Hooper
1945
Terry Spencer (uncredited)
1946
Ben Bailey
1951
Bellboy, The Marwood Arms
1946
Leo
1950
Lester Everett
1956
Soldier on Deck (uncredited)
1944
Murph
1955
Deke
1966
Mr. Zeider
1981
Sid Buckman / Car Wash Manager (voice)
1988
Attorney
1986
Ens. Chuck Dorrance
1951
Western Union Boy (uncredited)
1944
Herr Sessman (voice)
1982
Bunkie Taylor (as Dick Erdman)
1945
Jim Evans
1953
actor 'Stalag 17' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1991
Willie
1948
Walt Dabbett
1969
Waiter
1987
Buddy Morgan
1949
Fletcher Mays
1986
Judge Quincey P. Trumbell
1973
Shorty
1952
Scooper Nolan (as Dick Erdman)
1944
Alfred Grattin
1952
Cpl. Frenchy
1951
Oliver 'Ollie' Bonelli
1950
Dogface Dolan
1952
Ed Brent
1956
Eddie Walker
2008
Dr. Adams
1988
Al Williams
1959
Soda Jerk
1944
Mark Lewis
1947
Pvt. Swenson
1953
Middle Cowboy
1945
Tommy
1945
Eddie (as Dick Erdman)
1947
Ellis
1972
Mirza
1952
Frederick de Fernando
1975
Pirate #1
1983
Eddy
1949
Lt. 'Scooper' Nolan (as Dick Erdman)
1946
Sailor with Tour (uncredited)
1944
Joseph Somerby
1972
Rupe Pardee
1958
Eddie (uncredited)
1946
John Harper
Selby
1955
Host and narrator
1963
