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
- Murder Can Hurt You! as Mr. Burnice
- Steve Martin: Comedy Is Not Pretty as King of Cey What
- The Gossip Columnist as Director
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)
- 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 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
- Who's Minding the Store? as Tie Salesman
- The Raiders as Commissioner Mailer
- Critic's Choice as Harvey Rittenhouse
1962
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- 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
- All in a Night's Work as Fur Salesman (uncredited)
- Lover Come Back as Dr. Melnick
- 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
- Hawaiian Eye as Funeral Director
- The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis as Cecil Ellingboe
- Bourbon Street Beat
- It Started with a Kiss as Captain Porter (uncredited)
- The Young Philadelphians as George Archibald
- A Summer Place as Pawnbroker (uncredited)
- The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker as Sheriff
- The Man Who Understood Women as Rossi (uncredited)
- -30- as Chapman
- The Silent Kill as Michael Gilmore
1958
- The Rifleman
- The Donna Reed Show as Mr. Heflin
- 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
- The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour as Winslow (uncredited)
- Date with the Angels
- Annette as Uncle Archie McCleod
- The Spirit of St. Louis as Charles Levine - President, Columbia Aircraft Co. (uncredited)
- Decision at Sundown as Reverend Zaron
- Kiss Them for Me as Bill Hotchkiss (uncredited)
- My Man Godfrey as Farnsworth
- Designing Woman as Larry Musso (uncredited)
- Spring Reunion as Sidney (uncredited)
- The Hired Man as Harry Attwood
- Jack Benny Christmas Shopping Show as Shirt Salesman
- Affair in Reno as H.L. Denham
1956
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers as Emergency Room Doctor (uncredited)
- The Proud Ones as Barber (uncredited)
- The Solid Gold Cadillac as Williams (uncredited)
- Hot Blood as Mr. Swift (uncredited)
- The Power and the Prize as Howard Carruthers
- The Kettles in the Ozarks as Big Trout
1955
- Gunsmoke as Botkin
- The Bob Cummings Show as District Attorney
- The 20th Century Fox Hour as Paul Erickson
- The Millionaire as Jeweler
- Navy Log
- Screen Director's Playhouse as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
- The Great Gildersleeve
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy as Semu
- Blackboard Jungle as Mr. Stanley (uncredited)
- This Island Earth as Pilot (uncredited)
- Good Morning, Miss Dove as Mr. Spivvy (uncredited)
- My Sister Eileen as Baker's Receptionist (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
- Private Hell 36 as Mr. Mace (uncredited)
- Shield for Murder as The Professor
- Cry Vengeance as Bartender at The Cameo Room
1953
- The Danny Thomas Show as John Savich
- 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 Bob Hope Show as Self
- The Jack Benny Program as Shirt Salesman
- Lux Video Theatre as Norton