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

• Dr. Ken — Richard Erdman
• Weird Loners — Carl's Grandfather
• Community — Leonard
• 2008Empire 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
• 1994The Pagemaster — Pirate (voice)
• Batman: The Animated Series — Elliot (voice)
• 1992The Dark Wind — Co-Producer
• 1991Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker — actor 'Stalag 17' (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Beverly Hills, 90210 — Mr. Perl
• 1990Timeless Tales: The Emperor's New Clothes
• Wings — Howard Banks
• 1988Jesse — Dr. Adams
• 1988Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats — Sid Buckman / Car Wash Manager (voice)
• DuckTales — King Arty (voice), Mayor Rufus B. Pinfeathers (voice)
• She's the Sheriff — Frank Rubin
• 1987Valet Girls — Waiter
• 1986My Town — Fletcher Mays
• 1986Stewardess School — Attorney
• 1985Tomboy — Chester
• Murder, She Wrote — Jonathan, Eggman
• 1984Trancers — Drunken Wise Man
• 1983The Secret World of Og — Pirate #1
• Cassie & Co. — George Davenport
• Cheers — Duncan Fitzgerald
• 1982Heidi's Song — Herr Sessman (voice)
• Remington Steele — Bert the Coroner
• Space Stars — Additional Voices (voice)
• 1980Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge — Mr. Zeider
• The Amazing Spider-Man — Mr. Zeider
• Lou Grant
• Quincy, M.E.
• The Bionic Woman
• 1975Kate McShane — Frederick de Fernando
• 1974Mr. Majestyk — Dick Richard (uncredited)
• The Six Million Dollar Man — Slayton, Vernon
• 1973Brothers O'Toole — Judge Quincey P. Trumbell, Director
• Police Story
• 1972The Great Man's Whiskers — Joseph Somerby
• 1972Visions... — Ellis
• 1971Mooch Goes to Hollywood — Director
• 1971Teenage Tease — Director
• 1970Tora! Tora! Tora! — Colonel Edward F. French
• 1969Rascal — Walt Dabbett
• Here's Lucy — Clerk
• Mayberry R.F.D. — Frank Wylie
• Mr. Terrific — Manny
• 1966Namu, the Killer Whale — Deke
• That Girl
• Green Acres
• Hogan's Heroes — Walter Hobson
• I Dream of Jeannie — Store Manager
• The Wild Wild West — Mordecai Krone
• Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
• 1964The Brass Bottle — Seymour Jenks
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. — P.T. Barkley
• Petticoat Junction — Colonel Millbank
• 1963The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada — Host and narrator, Producer
• Saints and Sinners — Klugie
• The Beverly Hillbillies
• Mister Ed
• The Dick Van Dyke Show — Buck Brown
• The Tab Hunter Show — Richard Fairfield III
• 1959Face of Fire — Al Williams
• Not for Hire
• The Twilight Zone — Patrick McNulty
• 1958Saddle the Wind — Dallas Hanson
• 1958The Rawhide Trail — Rupe Pardee
• Panic!
• Perry Mason — Arthur Binney, Jim West, Charles (Monty) Montrose, Harry Niles, Ben Lucas, Jud Bennett
• 1956Anything Goes — Ed Brent
• 1956The Power and the Prize — Lester Everett
• West Point
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Charlie Brown
• 1955Bengazi — Selby
• 1955Francis in the Navy — Murph
• Matinee Theater
• Navy Log
• Science Fiction Theatre
• December Bride
• 1953Mission Over Korea — Pvt. Swenson
• 1953Stalag 17 — Hoffy Hoffman
• 1953The Blue Gardenia — Al
• 1953The Steel Lady — Jim Evans
• Where's Raymond? — Pete Morrisey
• 1952Aladdin and His Lamp — Mirza
• Cavalcade of America — Harry Jordan
• 1952Jumping Jacks — Dogface Dolan
• 1952The Happy Time — Alfred Grattin
• 1952The San Francisco Story — Shorty
• 1951Cry Danger — Delong
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars — Eddie McGuire
• 1951The Stooge — Ben Bailey
• 1951The Wild Blue Yonder — Cpl. Frenchy
• 1951You're in the Navy Now — Ens. Chuck Dorrance
• 1950The Admiral Was a Lady — Oliver 'Ollie' Bonelli
• 1950The Men — Leo
• 1949Easy Living — Buddy Morgan
• 1949Swiss Tour — Eddy
• 1948The Time of Your Life — Willie
• 1947That Way with Women — Eddie (as Dick Erdman)
• 1947Wild Harvest — Mark Lewis
• 1946Deception — Terry Spencer (uncredited)
• 1946Janie Gets Married — Lt. 'Scooper' Nolan (as Dick Erdman)
• 1946Nobody Lives Forever — Bellboy, The Marwood Arms
• 1946Shadow of a Woman — Joe, Counterman at Owl Lunch
• 1946So You Want to Play the Horses — Eddie (uncredited)
• 1945Danger Signal — Bunkie Taylor (as Dick Erdman)
• 1945Objective, Burma! — Pvt. Nebraska Hooper
• 1945Star in the Night — Middle Cowboy
• 1945Too Young to Know — Tommy
• 1944Hollywood Canteen — Soldier on Deck (uncredited)
• 1944Janie — Scooper Nolan (as Dick Erdman)
• 1944Mr. Skeffington — Western Union Boy (uncredited)
• 1944Musical Movieland — Sailor with Tour (uncredited)
• 1944The Very Thought of You — Soda Jerk
• The Bag — John Harper

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2021Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists! — Self