People
Richard Erdman
- Name: Richard Erdman
- Birthday: 1925-06-01
- Also known as: John Richard Erdmann ,Dick Erdman
- Place of birth: Enid, Oklahoma, USA
- Popularity: 5.121
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... Read More
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| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists! as Self | 2021-02-13 |
| Empire State Building Murders as Eddie Walker | 2008-08-14 |
| The Pagemaster as Pirate (voice) | 1994-11-23 |
| Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as actor 'Stalag 17' (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1991-10-28 |
| Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats as Sid Buckman / Car Wash Manager (voice) | 1988-03-20 |
| Valet Girls as Waiter | 1987-01-01 |
| Stewardess School as Attorney | 1986-08-01 |
| My Town as Fletcher Mays | 1986-05-25 |
| Tomboy as Chester | 1985-01-25 |
| Trancers as Drunken Wise Man | 1984-11-07 |
| The Secret World of OG as Pirate #1 | 1983-04-30 |
| Heidi's Song as Grimm (voice) | 1982-11-19 |
| Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge as Mr. Zeider | 1981-05-09 |
| Kate McShane as Frederick de Fernando | 1975-04-11 |
| Mr. Majestyk as Dick Richard (uncredited) | 1974-07-17 |
| Mr. Majestyk as Dick Richard | 1974-07-17 |
| Brothers O'Toole as Judge Quincey P. Trumbell | 1973-05-16 |
| Visions... as Ellis | 1972-10-10 |
| The Great Man's Whiskers as Joseph Somerby | 1972-05-02 |
| Tora! Tora! Tora! as Colonel Edward F. French | 1970-01-26 |
| Rascal as Walt Dabbett | 1969-06-11 |
| Namu, the Killer Whale as Deke | 1966-08-01 |
| The Brass Bottle as Seymour Jenks | 1964-05-20 |
| The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada as Host and narrator | 1963-01-01 |
| Face of Fire as Al Williams | 1959-08-09 |
| Saddle the Wind as Dallas Hanson | 1958-03-20 |
| The Rawhide Trail as Rupe Pardee | 1958-01-25 |
| Anything Goes as Ed Brent | 1956-04-27 |
| Bengazi as Selby | 1955-09-14 |
| Francis in the Navy as Murph | 1955-08-24 |
| The Steel Lady as Jim Evans | 1953-10-09 |
| Mission Over Korea as Pvt. Swenson | 1953-08-01 |
| Stalag 17 as Sgt. 'Hoffy' Hoffman | 1953-05-29 |
| The Blue Gardenia as Al | 1953-03-20 |
| The Happy Time as Alfred Grattin | 1952-10-30 |
| Jumping Jacks as Dogface Dolan | 1952-06-11 |
| The San Francisco Story as Shorty | 1952-05-11 |
| Aladdin and His Lamp as Mirza | 1952-02-24 |
| The Wild Blue Yonder as Cpl. Frenchy | 1951-12-05 |
| The Stooge as Ben Bailey | 1951-11-15 |
| You're in the Navy Now as Ens. Chuck Dorrance | 1951-02-23 |
| Cry Danger as Delong | 1951-02-23 |
| The Men as Leo | 1950-08-25 |
| The Admiral Was a Lady as Oliver 'Ollie' Bonelli | 1950-08-04 |
| Swiss Tour as Eddy | 1949-11-29 |
| Easy Living as Buddy Morgan | 1949-10-08 |
| The Time of Your Life as Willie | 1948-09-03 |
| Wild Harvest as Mark Lewis | 1947-09-26 |
| That Way with Women as Eddie (as Dick Erdman) | 1947-02-14 |
| Nobody Lives Forever as Bellboy, The Marwood Arms | 1946-11-01 |
| Deception as Terry Spencer (uncredited) | 1946-10-26 |
| So You Want to Play the Horses as Eddie (uncredited) | 1946-10-05 |
| Shadow of a Woman as Joe, Counterman at Owl Lunch | 1946-09-14 |
| Janie Gets Married as Lt. 'Scooper' Nolan (as Dick Erdman) | 1946-06-22 |
| Too Young to Know as Tommy | 1945-12-01 |
| Danger Signal as Bunkie Taylor (as Dick Erdman) | 1945-11-21 |
| Star in the Night as Middle Cowboy | 1945-10-13 |
| Objective, Burma! as Pvt. Nebraska Hooper | 1945-02-17 |
| Hollywood Canteen as Soldier on Deck (uncredited) | 1944-12-15 |
| The Very Thought of You as Soda Jerk | 1944-10-20 |
| Musical Movieland as Sailor with Tour (uncredited) | 1944-09-09 |
| Janie as Scooper Nolan (as Dick Erdman) | 1944-09-02 |
| Mr. Skeffington as Western Union Boy (uncredited) | 1944-05-25 |
