Richard Erdman

ActorProductionDirectorProducer Jun 1 (died age 93) Enid, Oklahoma, USA 1944–2021 (77 year career)

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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 …

Known For

Film

Stalag 17

Sgt. 'Hoffy' Hoffman

Film

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Colonel Edward F. French

Film

The Pagemaster

Pirate (voice)

Film

Mr. Majestyk

Dick Richard

Film

Trancers

Drunken Wise Man

Film

The Men

Leo

Film

Objective, Burma!

Pvt. Nebraska Hooper

Film

The Blue Gardenia

Filmography

Acting (118)

Movies (65)

Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!

2021

as Self

4.7

Empire State Building Murders

2008

as Eddie Walker

The Pagemaster

1994

as Pirate (voice)

6.4

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

1991

as actor 'Stalag 17' (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.7

Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats

1988

as Sid Buckman / Car Wash Manager (voice)

Jesse

as Dr. Adams

Valet Girls

as Waiter

Stewardess School

as Attorney

My Town

as Fletcher Mays

Tomboy

as Chester

Trancers

as Drunken Wise Man

The Secret World of Og

1983

as Pirate #1

4.2

Heidi's Song

1982

as Herr Sessman (voice)

6.0

Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge

1981

as Mr. Zeider

5.5

Kate McShane

1975

as Frederick de Fernando

Mr. Majestyk

1974

as Dick Richard

6.8

Brothers O'Toole

1973

as Judge Quincey P. Trumbell

5.2

Visions...

1972

as Ellis

The Great Man's Whiskers

1972

as Joseph Somerby

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1970

as Colonel Edward F. French

7.1

Rascal

1969

as Walt Dabbett

5.8

Namu, the Killer Whale

as Deke

The Brass Bottle

as Seymour Jenks

The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada

1963

as Host and narrator

Face of Fire

1959

as Al Williams

5.6

The Rawhide Trail

1958

as Rupe Pardee

Saddle the Wind

as Dallas Hanson

Anything Goes

as Ed Brent

The Power and the Prize

as Lester Everett

Francis in the Navy

as Murph

Bengazi

as Selby

Stalag 17

as Sgt. 'Hoffy' Hoffman

The Blue Gardenia

as Al

The Steel Lady

as Jim Evans

Mission Over Korea

as Pvt. Swenson

The San Francisco Story

1952

as Shorty

4.6

Aladdin and His Lamp

1952

as Mirza

Jumping Jacks

as Dogface Dolan

The Happy Time

as Alfred Grattin

Cry Danger

as Delong

The Wild Blue Yonder

as Cpl. Frenchy

The Stooge

as Ben Bailey

You're in the Navy Now

1951

as Ens. Chuck Dorrance

4.4

The Men

1950

as Leo

7.0

The Admiral Was a Lady

1950

as Oliver 'Ollie' Bonelli

Easy Living

as Buddy Morgan

Swiss Tour

as Eddy

The Time of Your Life

1948

as Willie

5.5

Wild Harvest

1947

as Mark Lewis

That Way with Women

1947

as Eddie (as Dick Erdman)

6.2

Deception

1946

as Terry Spencer (uncredited)

6.6

So You Want to Play the Horses

1946

as Eddie (uncredited)

6.0

Nobody Lives Forever

1946

as Bellboy, The Marwood Arms

6.2

Janie Gets Married

1946

as Lt. 'Scooper' Nolan (as Dick Erdman)

6.0

Shadow of a Woman

1946

as Joe, Counterman at Owl Lunch

4.3

Danger Signal

1945

as Bunkie Taylor (as Dick Erdman)

5.8

Objective, Burma!

1945

as Pvt. Nebraska Hooper

Star in the Night

as Middle Cowboy

Too Young to Know

as Tommy

Mr. Skeffington

1944

as Western Union Boy (uncredited)

6.8

Hollywood Canteen

1944

as Soldier on Deck (uncredited)

7.3

Janie

1944

as Scooper Nolan (as Dick Erdman)

5.6

The Very Thought of You

1944

as Soda Jerk

6.2

Musical Movieland

1944

as Sailor with Tour (uncredited)

6.0

The Bag

as John Harper

Television (53)

Dr. Ken

2015

as Richard Erdman

5.6

Weird Loners

2015

as Carl's Grandfather

Community

as Leonard

Joan of Arcadia

as Mr. Hanson

Boomtown

as Kevin's Dad

The Bernie Mac Show

as Frank

Judging Amy

as Mr. Callahan

Felicity

as Howie

Batman: The Animated Series

as Elliot (voice)

Beverly Hills, 90210

as Mr. Perl

Wings

as Howard Banks

DuckTales

as King Arty (voice)

She's the Sheriff

as Frank Rubin

Murder, She Wrote

as Eggman

Cheers

as Duncan Fitzgerald

Remington Steele

as Bert the Coroner

Cassie & Co.

as George Davenport

Space Stars

as Additional Voices (voice)

8.0

The Amazing Spider-Man

Lou Grant

Quincy, M.E.

The Bionic Woman

The Six Million Dollar Man

as Slayton

Police Story

Here's Lucy

as Clerk

Mayberry R.F.D.

as Frank Wylie

Mr. Terrific

as Manny

That Girl

I Dream of Jeannie

as Store Manager

Green Acres

Hogan's Heroes

as Walter Hobson

The Wild Wild West

as Mordecai Krone

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

as P.T. Barkley

Petticoat Junction

as Colonel Millbank

The Beverly Hillbillies

Saints and Sinners

as Klugie

Mister Ed

The Dick Van Dyke Show

1961

as Buck Brown

7.5

The Tab Hunter Show

1960

as Richard Fairfield III

The Twilight Zone

as Patrick McNulty

Not for Hire

Perry Mason

as Arthur Binney

Panic!

West Point

Matinee Theater

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Charlie Brown

Navy Log

Science Fiction Theatre

December Bride

Where's Raymond?

as Pete Morrisey

Cavalcade of America

as Harry Jordan

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951

as Eddie McGuire

7.2

Crew (5)

Movies (5)

The Dark Wind

Co-Producer

Brothers O'Toole

Director

Mooch Goes to Hollywood

1971

Director

4.3

Teenage Tease

1971

Director

The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada

1963

Producer