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4 unusual facts about Richard Erdman


Richard Erdman

In 1965, he played Colonel Millbank in the episode "The Black Box" of CBS's Petticoat Junction, a rural sitcom starring Bea Benaderet and Edgar Buchanan.

From 1978 to 1982, he appeared in four episodes of CBS's Lou Grant, starring Ed Asner.

From 1953 to 1954, Erdman co-starred with Ray Bolger in ABC sitcom, Where's Raymond? Erdman was cast as the pessimistic Pete Morrisey, Ray's landlord and press agent.

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".



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