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
- Steve Martin: Comedy Is Not Pretty as King of Cey What
- Murder Can Hurt You! as Mr. Burnice
- The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood as Joseph Rottman
- The Gossip Columnist as Director
1979
1978
- Rabbit Test as First Newscaster
- Getting Married as Wedding Director
- Piranha as Earl Lyon
1977
- The Love Boat as Dr. Yates
- CHiPs as Mr. Singleton
1976
1975
- The Man from Clover Grove as Charlie Strange
- The Lost Saucer
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
- The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band as Charlie Wrenn
- Persecución hasta Valencia as Records Clerk
- Lady in Cement as Arnie Sherwin
1967
- Enter Laughing as Pike
- The Mothers-in-Law as Roger Buell
- The King's Pirate as Swaine
- Rango
- The Gnome-Mobile as Ralph Yarby
1966
- Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N. as Survival Manual Narrator
- Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title as Mr. Travis / Police Chief
- The Pruitts of Southampton as Baldwin
- The Carol Channing Show as Leon Thatcher
1965
- Get Smart
- I Dream of Jeannie as Harley Z. Poof
- Green Acres as Mr. Oglethorpe
- Billie as Principal Arnold Wilson
- Dear Heart as Mr. Cruikshank
- That Darn Cat! as Drive-in-Manager
- John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! as Maginot
1964
- The Addams Family as Mortimer Phelps
- The Munsters as Borden T. Pike
- 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
- The Raiders as Commissioner Mailer
- Who's Minding the Store? as Tie Salesman
- Critic's Choice as Harvey Rittenhouse
1962
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- About Time as The Butler
- That Touch of Mink as Mr. Miller
1961
- The Dick Van Dyke Show as Mel Cooley
- Mister Ed
- Lover Come Back as Dr. Melnick
- 87th Precinct as Martin
- All in a Night's Work as Fur Salesman (uncredited)
- Everything's Ducky as Dr. Deckham
1960
- My Three Sons
- North to Alaska as Angus - Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
- Pete and Gladys
- 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 Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker as Sheriff
- The Young Philadelphians as George Archibald
- -30- as Chapman
- The Man Who Understood Women as Rossi (uncredited)
- 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 High Cost of Loving as Obstetrician (uncredited)
- A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed as Milburn Schroeder
- The Ed Wynn Show as Conway
1957
- Perry Mason as Wilmer Beaslee
- Maverick as Floyd Gimbel
- Leave It to Beaver as Fred Rutherford
- The Real McCoys
- Designing Woman as Larry Musso (uncredited)
- The Thin Man
- Spring Reunion as Sidney (uncredited)
- The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour as Winslow (uncredited)
- The Spirit of St. Louis as Charles Levine - President, Columbia Aircraft Co. (uncredited)
- Kiss Them for Me as Bill Hotchkiss (uncredited)
- Decision at Sundown as Reverend Zaron
- The Hired Man as Harry Attwood
- My Man Godfrey as Farnsworth
- Date with the Angels
- Affair in Reno as H.L. Denham
- Annette as Uncle Archie McCleod
- Jack Benny Christmas Shopping Show as Shirt Salesman
1956
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers as Emergency Room Doctor
- The Power and the Prize as Howard Carruthers
- Hot Blood as Mr. Swift (uncredited)
- The Solid Gold Cadillac as Williams (uncredited)
- The Proud Ones as Barber (uncredited)
- 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
- Screen Director's Playhouse as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
- The Bob Cummings Show as District Attorney
- Blackboard Jungle as Mr. Stanley (uncredited)
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy as Semu
- This Island Earth as Spacecraft Pilot
- Prince of Players as Theatre Manager
- My Sister Eileen as Baker's Receptionist (uncredited)
- Good Morning, Miss Dove as Mr. Spivvy (uncredited)
- Lay That Rifle Down as Glover Speckleton
- The Great Gildersleeve
1954
- Them! as Bald Reporter at L.A. News Conference
- December Bride
- Cry Vengeance as Bartender at The Cameo Room
- Public Defender as Truant Officer
- Shield for Murder as The Professor
- Désirée as Etienne Clary
- Private Hell 36 as Mr. Mace (uncredited)
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 Norton