Richard Erdman, a wisecracking character actor who appeared in more than 175 film and television productions, including as a barracks chief in “Stalag 17,” a time-stopping boor in “The Twilight Zone” and an elderly college student on the more recent sitcom “He had dementia and suffered a fall about two weeks ago, said film historian Alan K. Rode, an executor of his estate. He died Saturday .
Following that advice, he offered a deadpan response when his character was shot in the wooden leg. Asked what sort of prosthesis he’d like as a replacement, Erdman replied: “I'd like it in knotty pine, to match my den.” The character became known for annoying his younger community college classmates, especially Jeff Winger . Erdman was always met with the words, “Shut up, Leonard,” followed by one of a dozen or so insults: “I heard about your prescription socks,” or “Those teenage girls you played ping-pong with are doing it ironically.”
According to a 1972 profile in the Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph, Erdman and his mother moved to Los Angeles when he was a junior in high school, after his drama teacher suggested he could act in movies. Soon after graduating from Hollywood High School, he signed a seven-year contract with Warner Bros.
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