Richard Deacon
Born: 1922-05-14
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Richard Lewis Deacon (May 14, 1922 – August 8, 1984) was an American actor, best known for playing supporting roles in television shows on The Dick Van Dyke Show (as milksop producer Mel Cooley) and Leave It to Beaver (as Lumpy's self-aggrandizing father Fred Rutherford). He also had minor roles in films such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963).
Filmography
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
Bad Manners
The Awakening of Cassie
No Man's Valley
The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood
Murder Can Hurt You!
The Gossip Columnist
Steve Martin: Comedy Is Not Pretty
Piranha
Getting Married
Rabbit Test
The Man from Clover Grove
Arsenic and Old Lace
Lady in Cement
The Narco Men
The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
Blackbeard's Ghost
The King's Pirate
The Gnome-Mobile
Enter Laughing
Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N.
Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title
Billie
That Darn Cat!
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
Dear Heart
The Patsy
The Raiders
Who's Minding the Store?
The Birds
Critic's Choice
That Touch of Mink
About Time
Everything's Ducky
Lover Come Back
All in a Night's Work
North to Alaska
A Summer Place
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The Man Who Understood Women
It Started with a Kiss
The Silent Kill
The Young Philadelphians
The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
The Last Hurrah
A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
The High Cost of Loving
Jack Benny Christmas Shopping Show
Kiss Them for Me
Decision at Sundown
My Man Godfrey
The Hired Man
Designing Woman
The Spirit of St. Louis
Spring Reunion
Affair in Reno
The Power and the Prize
The Solid Gold Cadillac
The Proud Ones
The Kettles in the Ozarks
Hot Blood
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Good Morning, Miss Dove
My Sister Eileen
Lay That Rifle Down
This Island Earth
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
Blackboard Jungle
Prince of Players
Cry Vengeance
Désirée
Private Hell 36
Shield for Murder
Them!
Invaders from Mars