
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.

The Pagemaster
1994 · as Pirate (voice)

Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970 · as Colonel Edward F. French

Mr. Skeffington
1944 · as Western Union Boy (uncredited)

Trancers
1984 · as Drunken Wise Man

Stewardess School
1986 · as Attorney

Stalag 17
1953 · as Sgt. 'Hoffy' Hoffman

Mr. Majestyk
1974 · as Dick Richard (uncredited)

Valet Girls
1987 · as Waiter

The Men
1950 · as Leo

Saddle the Wind
1958 · as Dallas Hanson

Tomboy
1985 · as Chester

The Steel Lady
1953 · as Jim Evans

Objective, Burma!
1945 · as Pvt. Nebraska Hooper

The Blue Gardenia
1953 · as Al

Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge
1981 · as Mr. Zeider

Deception
1946 · as Terry Spencer (uncredited)

Heidi's Song
1982 · as Herr Sessman (voice)

Namu, the Killer Whale
1966 · as Deke