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 Tor ... a 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.
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Academy Awards | Best Supporting Actor | The Lost Weekend | Nominated |
Space Stars
as Additional Voices (voice)
Episodes: 66
First Aired: Sep 12, 1981
Where's Raymond?
as Pete Morrisey
Episodes: 60
First Aired: Oct 08, 1953
Community
as Leonard
Episodes: 56
First Aired: Sep 17, 2009
The Tab Hunter Show
as Richard Fairfield III
Episodes: 32
First Aired: Sep 18, 1960
Saints and Sinners
as Klugie
Episodes: 17
First Aired: Sep 17, 1962
Remington Steele
as Bert the Coroner
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 01, 1982
Here's Lucy
as Clerk
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 23, 1968
Boomtown
as Kevin's Dad
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 29, 2002
Judging Amy
as Mr. Callahan
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 19, 1999
The Bernie Mac Show
as Frank
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Nov 14, 2001
Wings
as Howard Banks
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 19, 1990
Petticoat Junction
as Colonel Millbank
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 24, 1963
Perry Mason
as Arthur Binney
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 1957
The Twilight Zone
as Patrick McNulty
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 02, 1959
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Charlie Brown
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 02, 1955
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Eddie McGuire
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 05, 1951
Batman: The Animated Series
as Elliot (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 05, 1992
Cavalcade of America
as Harry Jordan
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 01, 1952
Felicity
as Howie
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 29, 1998
Mr. Terrific
as Manny
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 09, 1967
Dr. Ken
as Richard Erdman
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 02, 2015
Mayberry R.F.D.
as Frank Wylie
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 23, 1968
The Six Million Dollar Man
as Slayton
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 18, 1974
The Six Million Dollar Man
as Vernon
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 18, 1974
Perry Mason
as Jim West
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 1957
Perry Mason
as Charles (Monty) Montrose
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 1957
Perry Mason
as Harry Niles
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 1957
Perry Mason
as Ben Lucas
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 1957
Perry Mason
as Jud Bennett
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 1957
Hogan's Heroes
as Walter Hobson
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 17, 1965
DuckTales
as Mayor Rufus B. Pinfeathers (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 18, 1987
DuckTales
as King Arty (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 18, 1987
The Wild Wild West
as Mordecai Krone
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 17, 1965
I Dream of Jeannie
as Store Manager
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 18, 1965
Cheers
as Duncan Fitzgerald
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 30, 1982
Murder, She Wrote
as Jonathan
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 30, 1984
Murder, She Wrote
as Eggman
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 30, 1984
The Dick Van Dyke Show
as Buck Brown
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 03, 1961
Lou Grant
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Sep 20, 1977
December Bride
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Oct 04, 1954
The Amazing Spider-Man
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Apr 05, 1978
Mister Ed
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 05, 1961
Green Acres
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 15, 1965
Joan of Arcadia
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 26, 2003
Beverly Hills, 90210
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 04, 1990
The Bionic Woman
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 14, 1976
That Girl
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 08, 1966
The Beverly Hillbillies
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 26, 1962
Quincy, M.E.
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 03, 1976
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 25, 1964
Police Story
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 20, 1973
West Point
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 05, 1956
Matinee Theater
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 31, 1955
Navy Log
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 20, 1955
Panic!
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 05, 1957
Not for Hire
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 23, 1959
Science Fiction Theatre
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 09, 1955
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