Richard Erdman Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Richard Erdman (born Richard Erdmann; June 1, 1925) is an American film and television actor and director. Erdman was born in Enid, Oklahoma. 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 co-starred with Ray... MORE

Richard Erdman (born Richard Erdmann; June 1, 1925) is an American film and television actor and director. Erdman was born in Enid, Oklahoma. 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 co-starred with Ray Bolger in both seasons of the 1953-1955 ABC sitcom with a variety show theme, Where's Raymond?, renamed The Ray Bolger Show. Bolger portrayed the optimistic Raymond Wallace, a song-and-dance man who was repeatedly barely on time for his performances. Erdman was cast as the pessimistic Pete Morrisey, Ray's landlord and press agent. Others on the series were Allyn Joslyn, Betty Lynn, Sylvia Lewis, Gloria Winters, and Verna Felton. Erdman appeared as the blackmailer, Arthur Binney, in the Perry Mason first season television episode "The Case Of The Gilded Lily," which aired on CBS on May 24, 1958. He LESS