Personal Info
Known Credits
64
Gender
Male
Birthdate
1925-06-01 (100 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Enid, Oklahoma, USA
Also Known For
John Richard Erdmann Dick Erdman
Richard Erdman
Biography
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 ...
Known For
Acting
2021 --
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
| Self
2008 --
Empire State Building Murders
| Eddie Walker
1994 --
The Pagemaster
| Pirate (voice)
1991 --
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
| actor 'Stalag 17' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1988 --
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
| Sid Buckman / Car Wash Manager (voice)
1987 --
Valet Girls
| Waiter
1986 --
Stewardess School
| Attorney
1986 --
My Town
| Fletcher Mays
1985 --
Tomboy
| Chester
1984 --
Trancers
| Drunken Wise Man
1983 --
The Secret World of OG
| Pirate #1
1982 --
Heidi's Song
| Grimm (voice)
1981 --
Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge
| Mr. Zeider
1975 --
Kate McShane
| Frederick de Fernando
1974 --
Mr. Majestyk
| Dick Richard
1974 --
Mr. Majestyk
| Dick Richard (uncredited)
1973 --
Brothers O'Toole
| Judge Quincey P. Trumbell
1972 --
Visions...
| Ellis
1972 --
The Great Man's Whiskers
| Joseph Somerby
1970 --
Tora! Tora! Tora!
| Colonel Edward F. French
1969 --
Rascal
| Walt Dabbett
1966 --
Namu, the Killer Whale
| Deke
1964 --
The Brass Bottle
| Seymour Jenks
1963 --
The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada
| Host and narrator
1959 --
Face of Fire
| Al Williams
1958 --
Saddle the Wind
| Dallas Hanson
1958 --
The Rawhide Trail
| Rupe Pardee
1956 --
Anything Goes
| Ed Brent
1955 --
Bengazi
| Selby
1955 --
Francis in the Navy
| Murph
1953 --
The Steel Lady
| Jim Evans
1953 --
Mission Over Korea
| Pvt. Swenson
1953 --
Stalag 17
| Sgt. 'Hoffy' Hoffman
1953 --
The Blue Gardenia
| Al
1952 --
The Happy Time
| Alfred Grattin
1952 --
Jumping Jacks
| Dogface Dolan
1952 --
The San Francisco Story
| Shorty
1952 --
Aladdin and His Lamp
| Mirza
1951 --
The Wild Blue Yonder
| Cpl. Frenchy
1951 --
The Stooge
| Ben Bailey
1951 --
You're in the Navy Now
| Ens. Chuck Dorrance
1951 --
Cry Danger
| Delong
1950 --
The Men
| Leo
1950 --
The Admiral Was a Lady
| Oliver 'Ollie' Bonelli
1949 --
Swiss Tour
| Eddy
1949 --
Easy Living
| Buddy Morgan
1948 --
The Time of Your Life
| Willie
1947 --
Wild Harvest
| Mark Lewis
1947 --
That Way with Women
| Eddie (as Dick Erdman)
1946 --
Nobody Lives Forever
| Bellboy, The Marwood Arms
1946 --
Deception
| Terry Spencer (uncredited)
1946 --
So You Want to Play the Horses
| Eddie (uncredited)
1946 --
Shadow of a Woman
| Joe, Counterman at Owl Lunch
1946 --
Janie Gets Married
| Lt. 'Scooper' Nolan (as Dick Erdman)
1945 --
Too Young to Know
| Tommy
1945 --
Danger Signal
| Bunkie Taylor (as Dick Erdman)
1945 --
Star in the Night
| Middle Cowboy
1945 --
Objective, Burma!
| Pvt. Nebraska Hooper
1944 --
Hollywood Canteen
| Soldier on Deck (uncredited)
1944 --
The Very Thought of You
| Soda Jerk
1944 --
Musical Movieland
| Sailor with Tour (uncredited)
1944 --
Janie
| Scooper Nolan (as Dick Erdman)
1944 --
Mr. Skeffington
| Western Union Boy (uncredited)