Actor
Richard Erdman
June 1, 1925 · 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. 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.
Notable work
8Community (2009)
as Leonard
8.6Batman: The Animated Series (1992)
as Elliot (voice)
8.5The Twilight Zone (1959)
as Patrick McNulty
7.8I Dream of Jeannie (1965)
as Store Manager
7.3Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990)
as Mr. Perl
6.4The Pagemaster (1994)
as Pirate (voice)
7.7DuckTales (1987)
as King Arty (voice) and as Mayor Rufus B. Pinfeathers (voice)
7.6Cheers (1982)
as Duncan Fitzgerald
7.7Stalag 17 (1953)
as Hoffy Hoffman
7.2Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
as Colonel Edward F. French
7.5Murder, She Wrote (1984)
as Jonathan and as Eggman
7.3The Six Million Dollar Man (1974)
as Slayton and as Vernon
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