Richard Erdman
Birthday: 1925-06-01
Place of Birth: Enid, Oklahoma, USA
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 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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Stalag 17
It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all serge...
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Tomboy
A budding female race-car driver finally meets her racing idol and unbelievably they fall in love......
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The Men
Ken, a WWII GI, returns home after he's paralyzed in battle. Residing in the paraplegic ward of a ve...
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...
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The Blue Gardenia
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murder...
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Cry Danger
After serving five years of a life sentence, Rocky Mulloy hopes to clear his friend who's still in p...
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Danger Signal
After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving...
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Deception
After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer...
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The Pagemaster
Rich knows a lot about accidents. So much so, he is scared to do anything that might endanger him, l...
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Jumping Jacks
Nightclub entertainer Hap Smith has a new act since his former partner Chick Allen joined the army. ...
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Objective, Burma!
A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to loc...
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The Admiral Was a Lady
Ex-WAVE encounters four fun-loving, work-hating men, all of whom want to marry her....
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Francis in the Navy
In the U. S. Army intelligence office, bumbling lieutenant Peter Stirling receives a coded message f...
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Shadow of a Woman
Brooke's brief marital life with Eric takes a downturn when she starts suspecting that he is starvin...
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Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge
Spider-Man goes to China to help an official accused of World War II treachery. Two episodes of the...
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Empire State Building Murders
A tribute and doc-crime-drama celebrating American film noir and the icons of the Hollywood golden a...
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Rascal
A comedy filled with tenderness as a baby raccoon snuggles his way into the life of a lonely boy. He...
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Namu, the Killer Whale
Based on the amazing true story of a marine biologist (Robert Lansing) who befriends a six-ton Orcaw...
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Heidi's Song
Orphan Heidi lives with her grandpa in Swiss Alps. She brings joy to all there. However, her aunt ta...
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The Stooge
Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act...
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Easy Living
A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him....
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Visions...
A professor who has visions of the future informs the police that someone is about to plant a bomb. ...
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That Way with Women
A bored millionaire matches his daughter with his partner in a gas station....
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The Wild Blue Yonder
Wendell Corey and Forrest Tucker star as a pair of World War II Army Air Corps officers. In between ...
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The Secret World of Og
The Secret World of Og is a children's adventure about three young girls who venture into an undergr...
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The San Francisco Story
After five years of being away, Rick Nelson returns to San Francisco to find it filled with corrupti...
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The Very Thought of You
Army sergeants Dave and "Fixit" spend a three-day pass in Pasadena, where they meet Janet and Cora, ...
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The Happy Time
A violinist and his brother guide one's son through his crush on the family maid in 1920s Ottawa....
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Janie Gets Married
Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her fath...
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Janie
Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father....
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My Town
A series of vignettes based upon an imaginative girl's unique outlook on her community....
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The Time of Your Life
Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick's Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once saving ...
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You're in the Navy Now
When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experim...
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
Beverly hills dowager leaves everything to Benny the Ball because her only rightful heir, her niece ...
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Bengazi
An American with a shady past joins with a morally-bankrupt Irishman to find treasure buried by Arab...
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Stewardess School
A group of varied misfits (including a former prostitute/stripper and a bumbler who can't see more t...
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Kate McShane
A flamboyant Denver lady lawyer, with the help of her father, a retired cop who does the legwork for...
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Saddle the Wind
Steve Sinclair is a world-weary former gunslinger, now living as a peaceful farmer. Things go wrong ...
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The Rawhide Trail
In this western two wagon masters are wrongfully accused of driving their wagon train in to a Comanc...
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The Brass Bottle
A genie tends to get his master into more predicaments than he gets him out of....
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Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
A comprehensive story of Hollywood's horror and science fiction films of the 1950s, told by the peop...
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The Steel Lady
Surviving a plane crash in the Sahara, four oilmen find and manage to repair a German Afrika Corps t...
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Mission Over Korea
A rookie pilot in the Korean War wants to avenge his brother's death....
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Too Young to Know
A returning GI searches for the wife who left him and gave away their son....
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Hollywood Canteen
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entert...
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Face of Fire
A local handyman saves a child in a fire, but the burns he receives disfigure his face so much that ...
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Mr. Majestyk
A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him....
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Mr. Skeffington
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth...
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Wild Harvest
Joe is the head of an itinerant combine crew, working the harvests against rival crew boss Alperson....
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Trancers
Angel City trooper Jack Deth is sent back in time from 2247 to 1985 L.A. to inhabit the body of his ...
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Valet Girls
A young girl who aspires to a singing career gets herself and her best friend a job as valet parking...
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Anything Goes
Bill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each 'disco...
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Mr. Majestyk
A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him....
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Aladdin and His Lamp
A poor young man finds a lamp with a genie trapped inside. The genie promises to grant the man three...
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So You Want to Play the Horses
In this outing, Joe loves playing the horses and shows what you can do to improve your odds of winni...
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director O...
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Musical Movieland
A group of tourists is given a tour of a movie studio lot. They see the various permanent sets that ...
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The Great Man's Whiskers
A young girl writes to President Abraham Lincoln to advise him to grow a beard....
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Star in the Night
Nick, a motel owner who has lost faith in more than just the humanity of mankind, is visited by a ki...
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Brothers O'Toole
The O'Toole Brothers are Eastern con men, exceptionally good at talking their way out of tight situa...
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The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada
In this unsold television pilot for a proposed travelogue series, Richard Erdman visits with the chi...
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The Bag
A woman discovers that her elderly mother is hoarding pills in order to commit suicide. The mother ...
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The Power and the Prize
An ambitious executive jeopardizes his career to marry a European refugee....
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Jesse
Based on the true story of a caring nurse whose work in Death Valley was challenged by the state....
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