Richard Deacon

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Acting

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

• The Hoboken Chicken Emergency (1984)
• Bad Manners (1984)
• The Unpredictable Pudgy! (1983)
• The Awakening of Cassie (1982)
• No Man's Valley (1981)
• Murder Can Hurt You! (1980)
• The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood (1980)
• The Gossip Columnist (1980)
• Steve Martin: Comedy Is Not Pretty (1980)
• Piranha (1978)
• Getting Married (1978)
• Rabbit Test (1978)
• The Man from Clover Grove (1975)
• Arsenic and Old Lace (1969)
• Lady in Cement (1968)
• The Narco Men (1968)
• The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968)
• Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)
• The King's Pirate (1967)
• The Gnome-Mobile (1967)
• Enter Laughing (1967)
• Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N. (1966)
• Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title (1966)
• Billie (1965)
• That Darn Cat! (1965)
• John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
• Dear Heart (1965)
• The Patsy (1964)
• The Raiders (1963)
• Who's Minding the Store? (1963)
• The Birds (1963)
• Critic's Choice (1963)
• That Touch of Mink (1962)
• About Time (1962)
• Everything's Ducky (1961)
• Lover Come Back (1961)
• All in a Night's Work (1961)
• North to Alaska (1960)
• A Summer Place (1959)
• -30- (1959)
• The Man Who Understood Women (1959)
• It Started with a Kiss (1959)
• The Silent Kill (1959)
• The Young Philadelphians (1959)
• The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (1959)
• The Last Hurrah (1958)
• A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed (1958)
• The High Cost of Loving (1958)
• Jack Benny Christmas Shopping Show (1957)
• Kiss Them for Me (1957)
• Decision at Sundown (1957)
• My Man Godfrey (1957)
• The Hired Man (1957)
• Designing Woman (1957)
• The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
• Spring Reunion (1957)
• Affair in Reno (1957)
• The Power and the Prize (1956)
• The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956)
• The Proud Ones (1956)
• The Kettles in the Ozarks (1956)
• Hot Blood (1956)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
• Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955)
• My Sister Eileen (1955)
• Lay That Rifle Down (1955)
• This Island Earth (1955)
• Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
• Blackboard Jungle (1955)
• Prince of Players (1955)
• Cry Vengeance (1954)
• Désirée (1954)
• Private Hell 36 (1954)
• Shield for Murder (1954)
• Them! (1954)
• Invaders from Mars (1953)