Cast
Richard Erdman
Acting
Cast
Richard Erdman
Known for
Acting
Born
1925-06-01
From
Enid, Oklahoma, USA
Died
2019-03-16
Also known as John Richard Erdmann , Dick Erdman
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.
★6.4
MOVIE1994
The Pagemaster
as Pirate (voice)
★7.2
MOVIE1970
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Colonel Edward F. French
★6.8
MOVIE1944
Mr. Skeffington
as Western Union Boy (uncredited)
★5.9
MOVIE1984
Trancers
as Drunken Wise Man
★7.7
MOVIE1953
Stalag 17
as Sgt. 'Hoffy' Hoffman
★7.0
MOVIE1950
The Men
as Leo
★5.3
MOVIE1966
Namu, the Killer Whale
as Deke
★6.8
MOVIE1974
Mr. Majestyk
as Dick Richard (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1974
Mr. Majestyk
as Dick Richard
★6.5
MOVIE1953
The Blue Gardenia
as Al
★4.9
MOVIE1985
Tomboy
as Chester
★6.7
MOVIE1958
Saddle the Wind
as Dallas Hanson
★4.3
MOVIE1987
Valet Girls
as Waiter
★8.0
MOVIE1958
The Rawhide Trail
as Rupe Pardee
★7.3
MOVIE1944
Hollywood Canteen
as Soldier on Deck (uncredited)
★5.4
MOVIE1951
You're in the Navy Now
as Ens. Chuck Dorrance
★6.4
MOVIE1946
Nobody Lives Forever
as Bellboy, The Marwood Arms
★6.8
MOVIE1945
Objective, Burma!
as Pvt. Nebraska Hooper
★6.6
MOVIE1953
The Steel Lady
as Jim Evans
★4.9
MOVIE1986
Stewardess School
as Attorney
★6.1
MOVIE1948
The Time of Your Life
as Willie
★5.6
MOVIE1955
Francis in the Navy
as Murph
★6.3
MOVIE1982
Heidi's Song
as Herr Sessman (voice)
★5.5
MOVIE1981
Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge
as Mr. Zeider
★8.0
MOVIE1972
The Great Man's Whiskers
as Joseph Somerby
★5.7
MOVIE1949
Easy Living
as Buddy Morgan
★6.7
MOVIE1951
Cry Danger
as Delong
★6.7
MOVIE1951
The Stooge
as Ben Bailey
★6.4
MOVIE1950
The Admiral Was a Lady
as Oliver 'Ollie' Bonelli
★7.0
MOVIE1951
The Wild Blue Yonder
as Cpl. Frenchy
★6.5
MOVIE1946
So You Want to Play the Horses
as Eddie (uncredited)
★7.5
MOVIE1945
Star in the Night
as Middle Cowboy
★6.7
MOVIE1947
That Way with Women
as Eddie (as Dick Erdman)
★6.7
MOVIE1988
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
as Sid Buckman / Car Wash Manager (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE1945
Too Young to Know
as Tommy
★6.5
MOVIE1952
Jumping Jacks
as Dogface Dolan
★7.0
MOVIE1947
Wild Harvest
as Mark Lewis
★6.0
MOVIE1956
Anything Goes
as Ed Brent
★4.5
MOVIE1946
Shadow of a Woman
as Joe, Counterman at Owl Lunch
★6.0
MOVIE1953
Mission Over Korea
as Pvt. Swenson
★8.0
MOVIE1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as actor 'Stalag 17' (archive footage) (uncredited)
★4.7
MOVIE2021
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
as Self
★6.3
MOVIE1956
The Power and the Prize
as Lester Everett
★6.0
MOVIE1973
Brothers O'Toole
as Judge Quincey P. Trumbell
★6.7
MOVIE1946
Deception
as Terry Spencer (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1975
Kate McShane
as Frederick de Fernando
★6.5
MOVIE1952
The Happy Time
as Alfred Grattin
★5.6
MOVIE1983
The Secret World of Og
as Pirate #1
★4.9
MOVIE1952
The San Francisco Story
as Shorty
★6.4
MOVIE1944
The Very Thought of You
as Soda Jerk
★6.3
MOVIE1964
The Brass Bottle
as Seymour Jenks
★9.0
MOVIE1952
Aladdin and His Lamp
as Mirza
MOVIE2008
Empire State Building Murders
as Eddie Walker
★10.0
MOVIE1972
Visions...
as Ellis
★6.0
MOVIE1969
Rascal
as Walt Dabbett
★6.0
MOVIE1945
Danger Signal
as Bunkie Taylor (as Dick Erdman)
★6.7
MOVIE1944
Musical Movieland
as Sailor with Tour (uncredited)
★5.8
MOVIE1959
Face of Fire
as Al Williams
★9.0
MOVIE1949
Swiss Tour
as Eddy
★7.3
MOVIE1946
Janie Gets Married
as Lt. 'Scooper' Nolan (as Dick Erdman)
★8.5
MOVIE1988
Jesse
as Dr. Adams
★7.0
MOVIE1986
My Town
as Fletcher Mays
★6.0
MOVIE1990
Timeless Tales: The Emperor's New Clothes
MOVIETBA
The Bag
as John Harper
★6.0
MOVIE1944
Janie
as Scooper Nolan (as Dick Erdman)
★4.2
MOVIE1955
Bengazi
as Selby
MOVIE1963
The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada
as Host and narrator