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
1983
- The Unpredictable Pudgy! as Himself
1981
- No Man's Valley as Panda (voice)
1980
- The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood as Joseph Rottman
- The Gossip Columnist as Director
- Steve Martin: Comedy Is Not Pretty as King of Cey What
- Murder Can Hurt You! as Mr. Burnice
1979
1978
- Piranha as Earl Lyon
- Getting Married as Wedding Director
- Rabbit Test as First Newscaster
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
- Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N. as Survival Manual Narrator
- The Carol Channing Show as Leon Thatcher
- Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title as Mr. Travis / Police Chief
1965
- Get Smart as Internship Doctor (uncredited)
- Green Acres as Mr. Oglethorpe
- I Dream of Jeannie as Harley Z. Poof
- That Darn Cat! as Drive-in-Manager
- Billie as Principal Arnold Wilson
- John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! as Maginot
- 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
- Who's Minding the Store? as Tie Salesman
- Critic's Choice as Harvey Rittenhouse
- 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
- Guestward, Ho!
- North to Alaska as Angus - Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
1959
- Bonanza as Captain Shark
- The Twilight Zone as Wallace V. Whipple
- The Untouchables as Bill Skidmore
- The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis as Cecil Ellingboe
- Hawaiian Eye as Funeral Director
- Bourbon Street Beat
- A Summer Place as Pawnbroker (uncredited)
- The Young Philadelphians as George Archibald
- The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker as Sheriff
- It Started with a Kiss as Captain Porter (uncredited)
- The Man Who Understood Women as Rossi (uncredited)
- -30- as Chapman
- The Silent Kill as Michael Gilmore
1958
- The Rifleman
- The Donna Reed Show
- 77 Sunset Strip as Wallace Friend
- The Last Hurrah as Graves (uncredited)
- The Ed Wynn Show as Conway
- A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed as Milburn Schroeder
- The High Cost of Loving as Obstetrician (uncredited)
1957
- Perry Mason as Wilmer Beaslee
- Maverick as Floyd Gimbel
- Leave It to Beaver as Fred Rutherford
- The Real McCoys
- The Thin Man
- The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour as Winslow (uncredited)
- Date with the Angels
- Annette as Uncle Archie McCleod
- Designing Woman as Larry Musso (uncredited)
- My Man Godfrey as Farnsworth
- Decision at Sundown as Reverend Zaron
- The Spirit of St. Louis as Charles Levine - President, Columbia Aircraft Co. (uncredited)
- Spring Reunion as Sidney (uncredited)
- Kiss Them for Me as Bill Hotchkiss (uncredited)
- Affair in Reno as H.L. Denham
- The Hired Man as Harry Attwood
- Jack Benny Christmas Shopping Show as Shirt Salesman
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 Power and the Prize as Howard Carruthers
- The Kettles in the Ozarks as Big Trout
1955
- Gunsmoke as Botkin
- The Millionaire as Jeweler
- The 20th Century Fox Hour as Paul Erickson
- Navy Log
- The Bob Cummings Show as District Attorney
- Screen Director's Playhouse as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
- Blackboard Jungle as Mr. Stanley (uncredited)
- The Great Gildersleeve
- This Island Earth as Pilot (uncredited)
- My Sister Eileen as Baker's Receptionist (uncredited)
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy as Semu
- Good Morning, Miss Dove as Mr. Spivvy (uncredited)
- Lay That Rifle Down as Glover Speckleton
- Prince of Players as Theatre Manager
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
- Shield for Murder as The Professor
- Private Hell 36 as Mr. Mace (uncredited)
- Cry Vengeance as Bartender at The Cameo Room
1953
- The Life Of Riley as Chauffeur
- The Danny Thomas Show as John Savich
- 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 Bob Hope Show as Self
- The Jack Benny Program as Shirt Salesman
- Lux Video Theatre as Sheldon