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