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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.
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Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
Empire State Building Murders
The Pagemaster
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Timeless Tales: The Emperor's New Clothes
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
Jesse
Valet Girls
My Town
Stewardess School
Tomboy
Trancers
The Secret World of Og
Heidi's Song
Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge
Kate McShane
Mr. Majestyk
Brothers O'Toole
Visions...
The Great Man's Whiskers
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Rascal
Namu, the Killer Whale
The Brass Bottle
The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada
Face of Fire
Saddle the Wind
The Rawhide Trail
Anything Goes
The Power and the Prize