Richard Deacon
Acting
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).
Known for
Them!
1954 · Movie
The Birds
1963 · Movie
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956 · Movie
Piranha
1978 · Movie
Invaders from Mars
1953 · Movie
Blackboard Jungle
1955 · Movie
A Summer Place
1959 · Movie
About Time
1962 · Movie
That Touch of Mink
1962 · Movie
The Last Hurrah
1958 · Movie
North to Alaska
1960 · Movie
That Darn Cat!
1965 · Movie
Lover Come Back
1961 · Movie
Blackbeard's Ghost
1968 · Movie
The Young Philadelphians
1959 · Movie
The Spirit of St. Louis
1957 · Movie
Désirée
1954 · Movie
Who's Minding the Store?
1963 · Movie
Designing Woman
1957 · Movie
The Man from Clover Grove
1975 · Movie
The Patsy
1964 · Movie
The Solid Gold Cadillac
1956 · Movie
Dear Heart
1965 · Movie
The Gnome-Mobile
1967 · Movie
My Man Godfrey
1957 · Movie
The Gossip Columnist
1980 · Movie
The King's Pirate
1967 · Movie
The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
1959 · Movie
Good Morning, Miss Dove
1955 · Movie
My Sister Eileen
1955 · Movie
Lady in Cement
1968 · Movie
The Proud Ones
1956 · Movie
Private Hell 36
1954 · Movie
Bad Manners
1984 · Movie
Shield for Murder
1954 · Movie
The Kettles in the Ozarks
1956 · Movie
Arsenic and Old Lace
1969 · Movie
Decision at Sundown
1957 · Movie
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
1955 · Movie
This Island Earth
1955 · Movie
All in a Night's Work
1961 · Movie
Getting Married
1978 · Movie
The High Cost of Loving
1958 · Movie
Steve Martin: Comedy Is Not Pretty
1980 · Movie
Lay That Rifle Down
1955 · Movie
Everything's Ducky
1961 · Movie
Spring Reunion
1957 · Movie
Critic's Choice
1963 · Movie
The Power and the Prize
1956 · Movie
No Man's Valley
1981 · Movie
Hot Blood
1956 · Movie
-30-
1959 · Movie
The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
1968 · Movie
Cry Vengeance
1954 · Movie
It Started with a Kiss
1959 · Movie
Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N.
1966 · Movie
Kiss Them for Me
1957 · Movie
The Raiders
1963 · Movie
Rabbit Test
1978 · Movie
Billie
1965 · Movie