
Richard Erdman
Born: 1925-06-01
Place of birth: Enid, Oklahoma, USA
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.
Filmography

Visions...
1972

Teenage Tease
1971

Aladdin and His Lamp
1952

Swiss Tour
1949

Batman: The Animated Series
1992

Jesse
1988

The Twilight Zone
1959

Community
2009

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991

Space Stars
1981

The Great Man's Whiskers
1972

The Rawhide Trail
1958

I Dream of Jeannie
1965

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

Perry Mason
1957

Mr. Terrific
1967

Stalag 17
1953

DuckTales
1987