Richard Erdman
Born	Richard Erdmann June 1, 1925 (1925-06-01) (age 84) Enid, Oklahoma USA
Occupation	television actor, Film and Television director
Years active	1944–present

Richard Erdman (born Richard Erdmann June 1, 1925, in Enid, Oklahoma) is an American film and television actor and director.

[edit] Notable roles

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 blackmailing victim, 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.

In 1962, Erdman had a recurring role as Klugie, the photographer, in the short-lived Nick Adams-John Larkin NBC series Saints and Sinners.

In 1990 Erdman appeared as Howard Banks on Wings in the episode "Around the World in Eighty Years".

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Richard Erdman at the Internet Movie Database

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