Richard Erdman
| Richard Erdman | |
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in The Admiral Was a Lady (1950)
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John Richard Erdmann June 1, 1925 Enid, Oklahoma, USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Dick Erdman |
| Occupation | Actor, occasional director |
| Years active | 1944–present |
| Spouse(s) | Leza Holland (married 1948–1950, divorced) Sharon Randall (married since 1953) |
| Children | one daughter, deceased |
Richard "Dick" Erdman (born June 1, 1925) is an American actor and occasional director. He has appeared in more than 160 film and television productions since 1944, mostly in supporting roles.
Erdman was born John Richard Erdmann in Enid in northern Oklahoma. He played in his first film Mr. Skeffington with Bette Davis and Claude Rains in 1944. Erdman started his career at Warner Bros. where he gained a studio contract. After a few smaller roles he achieved success as a character actor in supporting roles, often playing characters who were much older than he actually was. 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". He also appeared in The Men (1950) with Marlon Brando and the film noir Cry Danger (1951) with Dick Powell. In Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) he played Colonel Edward F. French, the officer who responded to the failure to transmit the warning to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
From 1953 to 1954, Erdman also co-starred with Ray Bolger in the ABC sitcom, Where's Raymond?. Erdman was cast as the pessimistic Pete Morrisey, Ray's landlord and press agent. In 1956, he was cast in the episode "Man on the Totem Pole" of the religion anthology series, Crossroads. Erdman appeared as blackmailer and murder victim Arthur Binney in the Perry Mason first season television episode, "The Case Of The Gilded Lily," which aired on CBS on May 24, 1958. During the nine-year run of Perry Mason, he appeared in five other episodes, often cast as the actual murderer, such as Charles (Monty) Montrose in the 1962 episode, "The Case of the Absent Artist," Harry Niles in the 1964 episode, "The Case of the Antic Angel," and Jud Bennett in the 1966 episode, "The Case of the Vanishing Victim." He appeared as Sergeant Jasper in Walt Disney's miniseries The Swamp Fox.
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