Tora! Tora! Tora!1970
As Colonel Edward F. French
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Richard Erdman
Born
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 (66)
The Pagemaster1994
As Pirate (voice)
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Trancers1984
As Drunken Wise Man
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Mr. Skeffington1944
As Western Union Boy (uncredited)
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Mr. Majestyk1974
As Dick Richard (uncredited), Dick Richard
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Blue Gardenia1953
As Al
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Stalag 171953
As Hoffy Hoffman
TMDb 7.7 / 10
Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge1980
As Mr. Zeider
TMDb 5.4 / 10
The Men1950
As Leo
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker1991
As actor 'Stalag 17' (archive footage) (uncredited)
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Deception1946
As Terry Spencer (uncredited)
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Saddle the Wind1958
As Dallas Hanson
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Jumping Jacks1952
As Dogface Dolan
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Tomboy1985
As Chester
TMDb 4.9 / 10
You're in the Navy Now1951
As Ens. Chuck Dorrance
TMDb 5.5 / 10
The Stooge1951
As Ben Bailey
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Stewardess School1986
As Attorney
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Heidi's Song1982
As Herr Sessman (voice)
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!2021
As Self
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Hollywood Canteen1944
As Soldier on Deck (uncredited)
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Easy Living1949
As Buddy Morgan
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Nobody Lives Forever1946
As Bellboy, The Marwood Arms
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats1988
As Sid Buckman / Car Wash Manager (voice)
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Wild Harvest1947
As Mark Lewis
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Wild Blue Yonder1951
As Cpl. Frenchy
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Objective, Burma!1945
As Pvt. Nebraska Hooper
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Cry Danger1951
As Delong
TMDb 6.7 / 10
The Great Man's Whiskers1972
As Joseph Somerby
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Namu, the Killer Whale1966
As Deke
TMDb 5.3 / 10
The Secret World of Og1983
As Pirate #1
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Francis in the Navy1955
As Murph
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Jesse1988
As Dr. Adams
TMDb 8.5 / 10
Too Young to Know1945
As Tommy
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Valet Girls1987
As Waiter
TMDb 4.3 / 10
The Time of Your Life1948
As Willie
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Anything Goes1956
As Ed Brent
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Power and the Prize1956
As Lester Everett
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Danger Signal1945
As Bunkie Taylor (as Dick Erdman)
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Brass Bottle1964
As Seymour Jenks
TMDb 6.3 / 10
The Happy Time1952
As Alfred Grattin
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Rascal1969
As Walt Dabbett
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The San Francisco Story1952
As Shorty
TMDb 4.9 / 10
Shadow of a Woman1946
As Joe, Counterman at Owl Lunch
TMDb 4.5 / 10
Aladdin and His Lamp1952
As Mirza
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Janie1944
As Scooper Nolan (as Dick Erdman)
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Very Thought of You1944
As Soda Jerk
TMDb 6.4 / 10
The Admiral Was a Lady1950
As Oliver 'Ollie' Bonelli
TMDb 6.4 / 10
My Town1986
As Fletcher Mays
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Star in the Night1945
As Middle Cowboy
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Timeless Tales: The Emperor's New Clothes1990
TMDb 6.0 / 10
That Way with Women1947
As Eddie (as Dick Erdman)
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Mission Over Korea1953
As Pvt. Swenson
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Face of Fire1959
As Al Williams
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The Rawhide Trail1958
As Rupe Pardee
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Janie Gets Married1946
As Lt. 'Scooper' Nolan (as Dick Erdman)
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Kate McShane1975
As Frederick de Fernando
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Steel Lady1953
As Jim Evans
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Musical Movieland1944
As Sailor with Tour (uncredited)
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Empire State Building Murders
Empire State Building Murders2008
As Eddie Walker
So You Want to Play the Horses
So You Want to Play the Horses1946
As Eddie (uncredited)
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Brothers O'Toole1973
As Judge Quincey P. Trumbell
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Bengazi1955
As Selby
TMDb 4.2 / 10
Visions...1972
As Ellis
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Swiss Tour1949
As Eddy
TMDb 9.0 / 10
The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada1963
As Host and narrator
The BagRelease date TBA
As John Harper
Filmography and biography: TMDb