
Richard Deacon
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).
Acting (76 movies)

The Birds
1963

Critic's Choice
1963

Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956

The Gnome-Mobile
1967

Piranha
1978

Getting Married
1978

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
1955

Billie
1965

Cry Vengeance
1954

Lady in Cement
1968

Enter Laughing
1967

The Young Philadelphians
1959

Blackbeard's Ghost
1968

Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title
1966

The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood
1980

No Man's Valley
1981

Good Morning, Miss Dove
1955

Dear Heart
1965

Rabbit Test
1978

A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
1958

Spring Reunion
1957

It Started with a Kiss
1959

Désirée
1954

The King's Pirate
1967

My Man Godfrey
1957

Everything's Ducky
1961

That Touch of Mink
1962

This Island Earth
1955

Lay That Rifle Down
1955

Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N.
1966

Jack Benny Christmas Shopping Show
1957

The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
1968

Bad Manners
1984

Steve Martin: Comedy Is Not Pretty
1980

Them!
1954

The Awakening of Cassie
1982

Invaders from Mars
1953

Private Hell 36
1954

The Last Hurrah
1958

Murder Can Hurt You!
1980

Blackboard Jungle
1955

The Silent Kill
1959

The Hired Man
1957

-30-
1959

A Summer Place
1959

The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
1959

The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
1984

Persecución hasta Valencia
1968

The Spirit of St. Louis
1957

Decision at Sundown
1957

The Solid Gold Cadillac
1956

The Man from Clover Grove
1975

The Raiders
1963

That Darn Cat!
1965

Kiss Them for Me
1957

Affair in Reno
1957

Designing Woman
1957

The Gossip Columnist
1980

Who's Minding the Store?
1963

Arsenic and Old Lace
1969

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
1965

About Time
1962

The Kettles in the Ozarks
1956

The Proud Ones
1956

Hot Blood
1956

North to Alaska
1960

The Patsy
1964

Shield for Murder
1954

Prince of Players
1955

The Man Who Understood Women
1959

Lover Come Back
1961

The High Cost of Loving
1958

All in a Night's Work
1961

The Power and the Prize
1956

My Sister Eileen
1955

Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956
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