Richard Erdman
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 20.299 |
| Birthday | 1925-06-01 |
| Place of Birth | Enid, Oklahoma, USA |
| Also Known As | John Richard Erdmann , Dick Erdman, |
1950
The Men
7/70
Ken, a WWII GI, returns home after he's paralyzed in battle. Residing in the paraplegic ward of a veteran's hospital and embittered by his condition,...
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The Men
1985
Tomboy
4.9/43
A budding female race-car driver finally meets her racing idol and unbelievably they fall in love...a love that's quickly put to the test when, having...
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Tomboy
1970
Tora! Tora! Tora!
7.2/520
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!...
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
1953
The Blue Gardenia
6.5/84
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the...
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The Blue Gardenia
1951
Cry Danger
6.8/48
After serving five years of a life sentence, Rocky Mulloy hopes to clear his friend who's still in prison for the same crime.
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Cry Danger
1946
Nobody Lives Forever
6.2/20
A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.
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Nobody Lives Forever
1945
Danger Signal
5.767/15
After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles...
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Danger Signal
1994
The Pagemaster
6.4/718
Rich knows a lot about accidents. So much so, he is scared to do anything that might endanger him, like riding his bike, or climbing into his treehous...
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The Pagemaster
1952
Jumping Jacks
6.3/27
Nightclub entertainer Hap Smith has a new act since his former partner Chick Allen joined the army. With his lovely new female partner, Hap now plays...
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Jumping Jacks
1945
Objective, Burma!
6.8/80
A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish t...
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Objective, Burma!
1950
The Admiral Was a Lady
6.1/6
Ex-WAVE encounters four fun-loving, work-hating men, all of whom want to marry her.
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The Admiral Was a Lady
1946
Shadow of a Woman
4.2/10
Brooke's marital life with Eric takes a downturn when she starts suspecting that her husband is starving his son from a prior marriage to death in ord...
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Shadow of a Woman
1955
Francis in the Navy
5.5/22
In the U. S. Army intelligence office, bumbling lieutenant Peter Stirling receives a coded message from his friend, Francis, a talking mule. The note...
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Francis in the Navy
2008
Empire State Building Murders
0/0
A tribute and doc-crime-drama celebrating American film noir and the icons of the Hollywood golden age. It recaptures the time and place of New York i...
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Empire State Building Murders
1969
Rascal
5.8/20
A comedy filled with tenderness as a baby raccoon snuggles his way into the life of a lonely boy. He becomes the boy's only companion during his fathe...
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Rascal
1966
Namu, the Killer Whale
4.1/5
Based on the amazing true story of a marine biologist (Robert Lansing) who befriends a six-ton Orcawhale, this "honest, fascinating and vigorously who...
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Namu, the Killer Whale
1982
Heidi's Song
6/6
Orphan Heidi lives with her grandpa in Swiss Alps. She brings joy to all there. However, her aunt takes her to the city to live as a servant girl to a...
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Heidi's Song
1951
The Stooge
6.6/31
Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act with a stooge—Ted Rogers, a guy positioned in the...
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The Stooge
1949
Easy Living
5.9/15
A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.
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Easy Living
1947
That Way with Women
6/5
A bored millionaire matches his daughter with his partner in a gas station.
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That Way with Women
1951
The Wild Blue Yonder
6/1
Wendell Corey and Forrest Tucker star as a pair of World War II Army Air Corps officers. In between their battles over the affections of a beautiful n...
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The Wild Blue Yonder
1983
The Secret World of OG
4.2/3
The Secret World of Og is a children's adventure about three young girls who venture into an underground cavern beneath their playhouse to look for th...
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The Secret World of OG
1952
The San Francisco Story
4.8/6
After five years of being away, Rick Nelson (Joel McCrea) returns to San Francisco to find it filled with corruption - and crooked politicians. It isn...
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The San Francisco Story
1944
The Very Thought of You
6.222/9
Army sergeants Dave and "Fixit" spend a three-day pass in Pasadena, where they meet Janet and Cora, two young women who work in a parachute factory.
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The Very Thought of You
1952
The Happy Time
6.3/11
A violinist and his brother guide one's son through his crush on the family maid in 1920s Ottawa.
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The Happy Time
1946
Janie Gets Married
6/2
Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.
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Janie Gets Married
1944
Janie
5.5/4
Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father.
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Janie
1986
My Town
0/0
A series of vignettes based upon an imaginative girl's unique outlook on her community.
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My Town
1948
The Time of Your Life
5.8/13
Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick's Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once saving his life, stops by regularly to run errands for Jo...
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The Time of Your Life
1988
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
6.2/28
Beverly hills dowager leaves everything to Benny the Ball because her only rightful heir, her niece Amy, is missing. But that's only if Benny stays al...
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
1951
You're in the Navy Now
4.4/9
When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experimental steam engine, he hopes that the U.S.S. Teake...
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You're in the Navy Now
1955
Bengazi
3.4/5
An American with a shady past joins with a morally-bankrupt Irishman to find treasure buried by Arabs in a deserted mosque in the Sahara. The situatio...
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Bengazi
1958
Saddle the Wind
6.5/30
Steve Sinclair is a world a world-weary former gunslinger, now living as a peaceful farmer. Things go wrong when his wild younger brother Tony arrives...
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Saddle the Wind
1953
Stalag 17
7.7/580
It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all sergeants, have to deal with a grave problem—there seem...
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Stalag 17
1958
The Rawhide Trail
0/0
In this western two wagon masters are wrongfully accused of driving their wagon train in to a Comanche raid and are sentenced to hang. Now they must w...
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The Rawhide Trail
1964
The Brass Bottle
6.2/22
A genie tends to get his master into more predicaments than he gets him out of.
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The Brass Bottle
1953
The Steel Lady
6.4/8
Surviving a plane crash in the Sahara, four oilmen find and manage to repair a German Afrika Corps tank which had been buried in the sand since WWII.
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The Steel Lady
1953
Mission Over Korea
3/1
A rookie pilot in the Korean War wants to avenge his brother's death.
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Mission Over Korea
1945
Too Young to Know
0/0
A returning GI searches for the wife who left him and gave away their son.
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Too Young to Know
1959
Face of Fire
5.6/7
A local handyman saves a child in a fire, but the burns he receives disfigure his face so much that the townspeople avoid him.
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Face of Fire
1944
Hollywood Canteen
7.3/26
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club...
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Hollywood Canteen
1944
Mr. Skeffington
6.6/54
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
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Mr. Skeffington
1947
Wild Harvest
0/0
Joe is the head of an itinerant combine crew, working the harvests against rival crew boss Alperson. Joe's buddy Jim joins the crew with startup money...
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Wild Harvest
1984
Trancers
5.858/183
Angel City trooper Jack Deth is sent back in time from 2247 to 1985 L.A. to inhabit the body of his ancestor. Deth's assignment is to find his archene...
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Trancers
1987
Valet Girls
3.25/4
A young girl who aspires to a singing career gets herself and her best friend a job as valet parking girls at a Malibu party in order to meet people w...
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Valet Girls
1956
Anything Goes
5.9/18
Bill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each 'discovers' the perfect leading lady for the plum female...
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Anything Goes
1974
Mr. Majestyk
6.8/165
A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him.
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Mr. Majestyk
1952
Aladdin and His Lamp
0/0
A poor young man finds a lamp with a genie trapped inside. The genie promises to grant the man three wishes if he frees him from the lamp.
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Aladdin and His Lamp
1946
So You Want to Play the Horses
6/1
In this outing, Joe loves playing the horses and shows what you can do to improve your odds of winning.
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So You Want to Play the Horses
1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
7.7/6
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such me...
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1944
Musical Movieland
0/0
A group of tourists is given a tour of a movie studio lot. They see the various permanent sets that are used for different types of movies, and they a...
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Musical Movieland
1972
The Great Man's Whiskers
0/0
A young girl writes to President Abraham Lincoln to advise him to grow a beard.
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The Great Man's Whiskers
1945
Star in the Night
6.9/16
Nick, a motel owner who has lost faith in more than just the humanity of mankind, is visited by a kindly stranger on Christmas Eve. The motel's guests...
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Star in the Night
1973
Brothers O'Toole
6.7/3
The O'Toole Brothers are Eastern con men, exceptionally good at talking their way out of tight situations. When they ride into Molybdenum, Colorado, n...
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Brothers O'Toole
1963
The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada
0/0
In this unsold television pilot for a proposed travelogue series, Richard Erdman visits with the children and townsfolk of the Sacromonte district of...
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The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada
1981
Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge
5.2/39
Spider-Man goes to China to help an official accused of World War II treachery. Two episodes of the TV series "Spider Man" edited together and releas...
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Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge
1975
Kate McShane
0/0
A flamboyant Denver lady lawyer, with the help of her father, a retired cop who does the legwork for her investigations, and her brother, a Jesuit pri...
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Kate McShane
1946
Deception
6.453/43
After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.
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Deception
1949
Swiss Tour
0/0
A sailor on leave meets a beautiful girl on the ski slopes of Switzerland.
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Swiss Tour
1972
Visions...
0/0
A professor who has visions of the future informs the police that someone is about to plant a bomb. He then discovers that the police consider him the...
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Visions...
1986
Stewardess School
4.9/37
A group of varied misfits (including a former prostitute/stripper and a bumbler who can't see more than 6 inches in front of his face) enter a school...
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Stewardess School
2021
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
4/2
A comprehensive story of Hollywood's horror and science fiction films of the 1950s, told by the people who made them.
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