Richard Erdman
Born in Enid, Oklahoma, USA — Jun 01 1925• Died Mar 16 2019
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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 black…
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Cheers
Duncan Fitzgerald
Community
Leonard
Murder, She Wrote
Jonathan
Perry Mason
Arthur Binney
Beverly Hills, 90210
Mr. Perl
Batman: The Animated Series
Elliot (voice)
Judging Amy
Mr. Callahan
Quincy, M.E.
The Twilight Zone
Patrick McNulty
Wings
Howard Banks
The Six Million Dollar Man
Slayton
The Beverly Hillbillies
Hogan's Heroes
Walter Hobson
Petticoat Junction
Colonel Millbank
Matinee Theater
The Wild Wild West
Mordecai Krone
Here's Lucy
Clerk
Felicity
Howie
Green Acres
I Dream of Jeannie
Store Manager
Remington Steele
Bert the Coroner
The Bernie Mac Show
Frank
DuckTales
King Arty (voice)
Lou Grant
Mister Ed
That Girl
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Buck Brown
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Charlie Brown
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
The Bionic Woman
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
P.T. Barkley
Dr. Ken
Richard Erdman
Police Story
December Bride
Cavalcade of America
Harry Jordan
Joan of Arcadia
Mr. Hanson
Mayberry R.F.D.
Frank Wylie
Boomtown
Kevin's Dad
Navy Log
Cassie & Co.
George Davenport
Science Fiction Theatre
She's the Sheriff
Frank Rubin
West Point
Panic!
The Amazing Spider-Man
Mr. Zeider
Mr. Terrific
Manny
Saints and Sinners
Klugie
Space Stars
Additional Voices (voice)
Weird Loners
Carl's Grandfather
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Colonel Edward F. French
The Tab Hunter Show
Richard Fairfield III
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Eddie McGuire
Stalag 17
Sgt. 'Hoffy' Hoffman
Not for Hire
Trancers
Drunken Wise Man
Where's Raymond?
Pete Morrisey
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
actor 'Stalag 17' (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Pagemaster
Pirate (voice)
The Men
Leo
Mr. Skeffington
Western Union Boy (uncredited)
Mr. Majestyk
Dick Richard (uncredited)
The Blue Gardenia
Al
The Stooge
Ben Bailey
Face of Fire
Al Williams
Stewardess School
Attorney
Deception
Terry Spencer (uncredited)
Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge
Mr. Zeider
The Time of Your Life
Willie
Cry Danger
Delong
Saddle the Wind
Dallas Hanson
Danger Signal
Bunkie Taylor (as Dick Erdman)
Namu, the Killer Whale
Deke
Wild Harvest
Mark Lewis
Heidi's Song
Herr Sessman (voice)
Rascal
Walt Dabbett
Objective, Burma!
Pvt. Nebraska Hooper
The Happy Time
Alfred Grattin
Valet Girls
Waiter
Tomboy
Chester
Francis in the Navy
Murph
Timeless Tales: The Emperor's New Clothes
Brothers O'Toole
Judge Quincey P. Trumbell
The Dark Wind
Production
Shadow of a Woman
Joe, Counterman at Owl Lunch
Kate McShane
Frederick de Fernando
You're in the Navy Now
Ens. Chuck Dorrance
That Way with Women
Eddie (as Dick Erdman)
The Power and the Prize
Lester Everett
Jesse
Dr. Adams
Anything Goes
Ed Brent
Easy Living
Buddy Morgan
Hollywood Canteen
Soldier on Deck (uncredited)
Musical Movieland
Sailor with Tour (uncredited)
The San Francisco Story
Shorty
Star in the Night
Middle Cowboy
The Secret World of Og
Pirate #1
Bengazi
Selby
The Great Man's Whiskers
Joseph Somerby
The Rawhide Trail
Rupe Pardee
My Town
Fletcher Mays
Nobody Lives Forever
Bellboy, The Marwood Arms
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
Directing
The Steel Lady
Jim Evans
The Wild Blue Yonder
Cpl. Frenchy
The Brass Bottle
Seymour Jenks
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
Sid Buckman / Car Wash Manager (voice)
The Very Thought of You
Soda Jerk
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
Self
The Admiral Was a Lady
Oliver 'Ollie' Bonelli
Swiss Tour
Eddy
Janie
Scooper Nolan (as Dick Erdman)
Mission Over Korea
Pvt. Swenson
Jumping Jacks
Dogface Dolan
Janie Gets Married
Lt. 'Scooper' Nolan (as Dick Erdman)
Visions...
Ellis
Too Young to Know
Tommy
So You Want to Play the Horses
Eddie (uncredited)
Aladdin and His Lamp
Mirza
Empire State Building Murders
Eddie Walker
Teenage Tease
Directing
The Bag
John Harper
The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada
Host and narrator