Richard Erdman
- Acting
- June 1, 1925 · Enid, Oklahoma, USA
- March 16, 2019
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
Filmography
- Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists! · Self
- Dr. Ken · Richard Erdman
- Weird Loners · Carl's Grandfather
- Community · Leonard
- Empire State Building Murders · Eddie Walker
- Joan of Arcadia · Mr. Hanson
- Boomtown · Kevin's Dad
- The Bernie Mac Show · Frank
- Judging Amy · Mr. Callahan
- Felicity · Howie
- The Pagemaster · Pirate (Voice)
- Batman: The Animated Series · Elliot (Voice)
- The Dark Wind · Co-producer
- Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker · actor 'Stalag 17' (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Beverly Hills, 90210 · Mr. Perl
- Timeless Tales: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Wings · Howard Banks
- Jesse · Dr. Adams
- Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats · Sid Buckman / Car Wash Manager (Voice)
- She's the Sheriff · Frank Rubin
- DuckTales · King Arty (Voice), Mayor Rufus B. Pinfeathers (Voice)
- Valet Girls · Waiter
- Stewardess School · Attorney
- My Town · Fletcher Mays
- Tomboy · Chester
- Trancers · Drunken Wise Man
- Murder, She Wrote · Jonathan, Eggman
- The Secret World of Og · Pirate #1
- Heidi's Song · Herr Sessman (Voice)
- Remington Steele · Bert the Coroner
- Cheers · Duncan Fitzgerald
- Cassie & Co. · George Davenport
- Space Stars · Additional Voices (Voice)
- Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge · Mr. Zeider
- The Amazing Spider-Man · Mr. Zeider
- Lou Grant
- Quincy, M.E.
- The Bionic Woman
- Kate McShane · Frederick de Fernando
- Mr. Majestyk · Dick Richard (uncredited), Dick Richard
- The Six Million Dollar Man · Slayton, Vernon
- Brothers O'Toole · Judge Quincey P. Trumbell, Director
- Police Story
- Visions... · Ellis
- The Great Man's Whiskers · Joseph Somerby
- Mooch Goes to Hollywood · Director
- Teenage Tease · Director
- Tora! Tora! Tora! · Colonel Edward F. French
- Rascal · Walt Dabbett
- Here's Lucy · Clerk
- Mayberry R.F.D. · Frank Wylie
- Mr. Terrific · Manny
- That Girl
- Namu, the Killer Whale · Deke
- I Dream of Jeannie · Store Manager
- Hogan's Heroes · Walter Hobson
- The Wild Wild West · Mordecai Krone
- Green Acres
- Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. · P.T. Barkley
- The Brass Bottle · Seymour Jenks
- Petticoat Junction · Colonel Millbank
- The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada · Host and narrator, Producer
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- Saints and Sinners · Klugie
- The Dick Van Dyke Show · Buck Brown
- Mister Ed
- The Tab Hunter Show · Richard Fairfield III
- Not for Hire
- The Twilight Zone · Patrick McNulty
- Face of Fire · Al Williams
- Saddle the Wind · Dallas Hanson
- The Rawhide Trail · Rupe Pardee
- Perry Mason · Arthur Binney, Jim West
- Panic!
- West Point
- The Power and the Prize · Lester Everett
- Anything Goes · Ed Brent
- Matinee Theater
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents · Charlie Brown