Richard Erdman

Total Credits at Criticker: 30 (Actor), 2 (Director)
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Dean is an unsuccessful broadway performer until his handlers convince him to become an act using a stooge... (imdb)
Ex-GI Ken (Marlon Brando) who as a result of a war wound is paralyzed below the waist. In the hospital back home, he passes through an initial period of depression with the help of a sympathetic Dr. Brock (Everett Sloane) and his faithful fiancée Ellen (Teresa Wright). Ken's bitter isolation is also overcome with the help of his fellow patients... (imdb)
Nora is a pretty telephone operator engaged to a soldier overseas. On her birthday, she gets a Dear John letter from him. Feeling despondent, she agrees to a date with a wolf from her office. He gets her drunk and leads her back to his apartment, where she resists his advances and bludgeons him in self-defense. She flees leaving behind the blue gardenia he bought her. The next morning, she's can't remember the details of what happened. (imdb)
In this light-weight adolescent adventure, busty Tommy Boyd (Betsy Russell), a tough-gal mechanic who runs a garage in East L.A., would rather spend time riding her motorcycle and playing B-ball with the street kids than fussing with fashions and other feminine cliches. (All Movie Guide)
Four men searching for oil in the desert have their plane forced down during a sandstorm. The plane is damaged beyond repair, but the storm has uncovered a German tank which has been buried since WW2. The men are able to repair the tank and head off in the direction of a French Foreign Legion post...
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. Farmer's niece Fay falls for Joe. He puts her off. To get back she marries Jim whom she prods into high-grading the grain (skimming off some for private sale). The last payment on Joe's machinery is due just as he discover's what his buddy has been doing. (imdb)
Nightclub comic Hap Smith assumes the identity of another soldier so he can tour army bases in a revue with his ex-partner Chuck Allen. (imdb)
Ex-con Rocky Mulloy seeks the real culprit in the crime he was framed for, in a night world of deceptive dames and double crosses. (imdb)
Smooth-talker Ronnie Mason earns his living by murdering lonely women for their inheritances. On the run, Ronnie poses as a disabled war vet and takes a room at the Fenchurch home. He at first courts elder daughter Hilda, but changes his plans after meeting her younger, prettier--and richer--sister. Hilda discovers Ronnie's scheme, but can she act before her sister becomes his next victim? (imdb)
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. (imdb)
Comedy about the proverbial genie who comes out of a bottle to serve his new master. The only problem is that instead of helping his master, the genie tends to get his master into more predicaments than he gets him out of. (imdb)
A marine biologist nurses a wounded orca and fights to protect it from local fishermen. (TCM.com)
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats (1987) - TV Movie
Top Cat and gang are taking their alley shenanigans to the big screen.
A local handyman saves a child in a fire, but the burns he receives disfigure his face so much that the townspeople avoid him. (imdb)
Ex-WAVE encounters four fun-loving, work-hating men, all of whom want to marry her. (imdb)
Complaining that Francis the Mule was getting more fan mail than he was, Donald O'Connor bade adios to the "Francis" series with this 1955 entry. Once more, O'Connor plays Army lieutenant Peter Sterling, who heads to a navy base when it looks like his old pal Francis is about to be auctioned off as surplus. In short order, Sterling is mistaken for a bos'n's mate whom he resembles, and it's off to sea for both Peter and the mule. (allmovie.com)
A young bride's marital bliss is replaced by shades of suspicion when she suspects that her husband is trying to starve his young son to death in order to claim an inheritance the boy is entitled to. (imdb)
In the 1850s San Francisco newspaper editor Jim Martin seeks the help of wealthy miner Rick Nelson in ousting crooked politician Andrew Cain. Cain's girlfriend Adelaide falls in love with Rick. Rick and the bad guy shoot it out with shotguns on horseback. (imdb)
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. The situation becomes complicated when they are surrounded by bellicose Bedouin bandits. (imdb)
The brothers, a couple of ne'er-do-wells, turn a sleepy mining town upside-down in their search for quick riches. (imdb)
Based on the novel Heidi by Johanna Spyri, this animated flick for children and those who love children is about the events in the life of a young girl in her grandfather's care, in the Swiss Alps.
The Empire State Building Murders (2008) - TV Movie
A tribute and doc-crime-drama celebrating American film noir and the icons of the Hollywood golden age. It recaptures the time and place of New York in the 30's and 40s as well as plays with the codes and references of the genre. (imdb)
A bored automobile industry tycoon assumes a false identity, buys a half interest in a gas station, and plays matchmaker for his daughter. (imdb)
Jess Brady and Rupe Pardee are in jail in Gunsight, Texas, blamed for leading a wagon train into a Comanche ambush, and about to be hanged. They protest their innocence and claim that the Indians want to kill them also. The Comanches attack the jail in an effort to capture the prisoners, but are driven off the soldiers of the garrison led by the Captain. Expecting another attack, the Captain and a small detail of men move the prisoners out of town in a wagon, but they are under constant surveill
Musical Movieland (1944) - Short Film
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. Musical numbers from several previous Warner Bros. Technicolor shorts are edited into this short to create the illusion.
Saints and Sinners (1962) - TV Series
Nick Alexander works for the New York Bulletin as an investigative reporter and is willing to go to great lengths for a story. His colleagues are supportive and take the place of any family or social life.