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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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25 May 1986
A series of vignettes based upon an imaginative girl's unique outlook on her community.
21 November 1945
After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles.
29 November 1949
A sailor on leave meets a beautiful girl on the ski slopes of Switzerland.
11 April 1975
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 priest and university law professor, unravels a murder case of a society woman who allegedly stabbed her husband.
26 September 1947
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.
05 December 1951
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 nurse, Corey and Tucker prepare to fly a bombing mission in the South Pacific.
09 September 1944
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 appear to watch the filming of several productions in progress.
26 January 1970
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.
15 May 1992
An Indian police officer is mixed up in murder and drug smuggling on the reservation.
11 May 1952
After five years of being away, Rick Nelson returns to San Francisco to find it filled with corruption - and crooked politicians.
20 May 1964
A genie tends to get his master into more predicaments than he gets him out of.
27 April 1956
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 role.
26 September 1956
An ambitious executive jeopardizes his career to marry a European refugee.
20 March 1953
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 night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.
23 November 1994
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 treehouse.
17 July 1974
A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him.
08 October 1949
A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.
10 October 1972
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 prime suspect.
30 October 1952
A violinist and his brother guide one's son through his crush on the family maid in 1920s Ottawa.
13 October 1945
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.
29 May 1953
After two American prisoners are killed by guards in the act of escaping from a German POW camp in World War II, barracks black marketeer J.
11 June 1952
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 a clownish parody of a soldier.
15 November 1951
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 audience to be the butt of Bill's jokes.
30 April 1983
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 their lost baby brother.
17 February 1945
A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station.
16 May 1973
The O'Toole Brothers are Eastern con men, exceptionally good at talking their way out of tight situations.
25 August 1950
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, he refuses to see his fiancée and sinks into a solitary world of hatred and hostility.
25 May 1944
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
28 October 1991
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s.
24 February 1952
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.
14 August 2008
A tribute and doc-crime-drama celebrating American film noir and the icons of the Hollywood golden age.
01 January 1987
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 who can help them achieve their dreams.
07 November 1984
Angel City trooper Jack Deth is sent back in time from 2247 to 1985 L.A. to inhabit the body of his ancestor.
20 October 1944
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.
25 January 1985
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 received the chance to show her racing talents, the two find themselves in a race for a multi-million dollar sponsorship contract.
02 September 1944
Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father.
22 June 1946
Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.
03 September 1948
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 Joe.
23 February 1951
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.
26 October 1946
After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.
23 February 1951
After serving five years of a life sentence, Rocky Mulloy hopes to clear his friend who's still in prison for the same crime.
15 December 1944
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas.
09 May 1981
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 released as a feature.
11 June 1969
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 father's frequent absences.
04 October 1988
Based on the true story of a caring nurse whose work in Death Valley was challenged by the state.
01 August 1986
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 to become flight attendants.
01 December 1945
A returning GI searches for the wife who left him and gave away their son.
13 February 2021
A comprehensive story of Hollywood's horror and science fiction films of the 1950s, told by the people who made them.
01 August 1966
Based on the amazing true story of a marine biologist (Robert Lansing) who befriends a six-ton Orcawhale, this "honest, fascinating and vigorously wholesome film" (Citizen-News) is heartwarming fun for the whole family.
02 May 1972
A young girl writes to President Abraham Lincoln to advise him to grow a beard.
31 December 1971
A dog tries to become a canine star with the help of Zsa Zsa Gabor.
09 October 1953
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.
01 January 1971
A movie about a girl who was good...especially when she was bad.
20 March 1988
Beverly hills dowager leaves everything to Benny the Ball because her only rightful heir, her niece Amy, is missing.
20 March 1958
Steve Sinclair is a world-weary former gunslinger, now living as a peaceful farmer. Things go wrong when his wild younger brother Tony arrives on the scene with his new bride Joan Blake.
04 August 1950
Ex-WAVE encounters four fun-loving, work-hating men, all of whom want to marry her.
14 September 1955
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.
19 November 1982
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 cold rich strict family and their nice but sad handicapped daughter.
01 November 1946
A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.
14 September 1946
Brooke's brief marital life with Eric takes a downturn when she starts suspecting that he is starving his son from a prior marriage to death in order to claim his inheritance.
