Richard Deacon
Born: 1922-05-14 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1984-08-08
Known For: Acting
Biography
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
1984
- Bad Manners as Ticket Salesman
- The Hoboken Chicken Emergency as City Councilman
1981
- No Man's Valley as Panda (voice)
1980
- Murder Can Hurt You! as Mr. Burnice
- The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood as Joseph Rottman
- Steve Martin: Comedy Is Not Pretty as King of Cey What
- The Gossip Columnist as Director
1979
1978
- Piranha as Earl Lyon
- Rabbit Test as First Newscaster
- Getting Married as Wedding Director
1977
- The Love Boat as Dr. Yates
- CHiPs as Mr. Singleton
1976
- Alice
- What's Happening!! as Mr. Bradford
1975
- The Lost Saucer
- The Man from Clover Grove as Charlie Strange
1972
1971
- McMillan & Wife
- The Pet Set as Self
1970
- Night Gallery as Man with Mallet (segment "How to Cure the Common Vampire")
1969
- Love, American Style as Charlie
- Arsenic and Old Lace as Mr. Witherspoon
1968
- Here's Lucy as Harvey Hoople
- Blackbeard's Ghost as Dean Wheaton
- Lady in Cement as Arnie Sherwin
- The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band as Charlie Wrenn
- The Narco Men as Records Clerk
1967
- The Mothers-in-Law as Roger Buell
- Rango
- The Gnome-Mobile as Ralph Yarby
- The King's Pirate as Swaine
- Enter Laughing as Pike
1966
- The Pruitts of Southampton as Baldwin
- The Carol Channing Show as Leon Thatcher
- Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N. as Survival Manual Narrator
- Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title as Mr. Travis / Police Chief
1965
- Get Smart
- I Dream of Jeannie as Harley Z. Poof
- Green Acres as Mr. Oglethorpe
- That Darn Cat! as Drive-in-Manager
- John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! as Maginot
- Billie as Principal Arnold Wilson
- Dear Heart as Mr. Cruikshank
1964
- The Munsters as Borden T. Pike
- The Addams Family as Mortimer Phelps
- The Patsy as Sy Devore
1963
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Self
- My Favorite Martian as Mr. Bentley
- The Birds as Mitch's City Neighbor
- Critic's Choice as Harvey Rittenhouse
- Who's Minding the Store? as Tie Salesman
- The Raiders as Commissioner Mailer
1962
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- That Touch of Mink as Mr. Miller
- About Time as The Butler
1961
- The Dick Van Dyke Show as Mel Cooley
- Mister Ed
- 87th Precinct as Martin
- Lover Come Back as Dr. Melnick
- All in a Night's Work as Fur Salesman (uncredited)
- Everything's Ducky as Dr. Deckham
1960
- My Three Sons
- Pete and Gladys
- North to Alaska as Angus - Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
- Guestward, Ho!
1959
- Bonanza as Captain Shark
- The Twilight Zone as Wallace V. Whipple
- The Untouchables as Bill Skidmore
- Hawaiian Eye as Funeral Director
- The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis as Cecil Ellingboe
- Bourbon Street Beat
- A Summer Place as Pawnbroker (uncredited)
- It Started with a Kiss as Capt. Porter (uncredited)
- The Young Philadelphians as George Archibald
- The Man Who Understood Women as Rossi (uncredited)
- The Silent Kill as Michael Gilmore
- -30- as Chapman
- The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker as Sheriff
1958
- The Rifleman
- The Donna Reed Show
- 77 Sunset Strip as Wallace Friend
- The Ed Wynn Show as Conway
- The Last Hurrah as Graves (uncredited)
- The High Cost of Loving as Obstetrician (uncredited)
- A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed as Milburn Schroeder
1957
- Perry Mason as Wilmer Beaslee
- Maverick as Floyd Gimbel
- Leave It to Beaver as Fred Rutherford
- The Real McCoys
- The Thin Man
- Date with the Angels
- The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour as Winslow (uncredited)
- Annette as Uncle Archie McCleod
- The Spirit of St. Louis as Charles Levine - President, Columbia Aircraft Co. (uncredited)
- Designing Woman as Larry Musso (uncredited)
- My Man Godfrey as Farnsworth
- Decision at Sundown as Reverend Zaron
- Spring Reunion as Sidney (uncredited)
- Kiss Them for Me as Bill Hotchkiss (uncredited)
- Affair in Reno as H.L. Denham
- Jack Benny Christmas Shopping Show as Shirt Salesman
- The Hired Man as Harry Attwood
1956
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers as Emergency Room Doctor (uncredited)
- The Proud Ones as Barber (uncredited)
- Hot Blood as Mr. Swift (uncredited)
- The Solid Gold Cadillac as Williams (uncredited)
- The Kettles in the Ozarks as Big Trout
- The Power and the Prize as Howard Carruthers
1955
- Gunsmoke as Botkin
- The 20th Century Fox Hour as Paul Erickson
- The Millionaire as Jeweler
- Navy Log
- Screen Director's Playhouse as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
- The Bob Cummings Show as District Attorney
- This Island Earth as Pilot (uncredited)
- Blackboard Jungle as Mr. Stanley (uncredited)
- The Great Gildersleeve
- My Sister Eileen as Baker's Receptionist (uncredited)
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy as Semu
- Lay That Rifle Down as Glover Speckleton
- Prince of Players as Theatre Manager
- Good Morning, Miss Dove as Mr. Spivvy (uncredited)
1954
- December Bride as James, Desi Arnaz's Butler
- Public Defender as Truant Officer
- Them! as Bald Reporter at L.A. News Conference
- Désirée as Etienne Clary
- Private Hell 36 as Mr. Mace (uncredited)
- Cry Vengeance as Bartender at The Cameo Room
- Shield for Murder as The Professor
1953
- The Life Of Riley as Chauffeur
- Invaders from Mars as MP
1952
- The Ford Television Theatre as Planter O'Toole
1951
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Dr. Thomas Gregory
1950
- The Jack Benny Program as Shirt Salesman
- The Bob Hope Show as Self
- Lux Video Theatre as Sheldon