
Place of Birth:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Date of Birth:
5/14/1922
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).

The Birds

Critic's Choice

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

The Gnome-Mobile

Piranha

Getting Married

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy

Billie

Cry Vengeance

Lady in Cement

Enter Laughing

The Young Philadelphians

Blackbeard's Ghost

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

The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood

No Man's Valley

Good Morning, Miss Dove

Dear Heart

Rabbit Test

A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed

Spring Reunion

It Started with a Kiss

Désirée

The King's Pirate

My Man Godfrey

Everything's Ducky

That Touch of Mink

This Island Earth

Lay That Rifle Down

Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N.

Jack Benny Christmas Shopping Show

The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band

Bad Manners

Steve Martin: Comedy Is Not Pretty

Them!

The Awakening of Cassie

Invaders from Mars

Private Hell 36

The Last Hurrah

Murder Can Hurt You!

Blackboard Jungle

The Hired Man

The Silent Kill

-30-

A Summer Place

The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker

The Hoboken Chicken Emergency

Persecución hasta Valencia

The Spirit of St. Louis

Decision at Sundown

The Solid Gold Cadillac

The Man from Clover Grove

The Raiders

That Darn Cat!

Kiss Them for Me

Affair in Reno

Designing Woman

The Gossip Columnist

Who's Minding the Store?

Arsenic and Old Lace

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

About Time

The Kettles in the Ozarks

The Proud Ones

Hot Blood

North to Alaska

The Patsy

Prince of Players

Shield for Murder

The Man Who Understood Women

Lover Come Back

The High Cost of Loving

All in a Night's Work

The Power and the Prize

My Sister Eileen

Invasion of the Body Snatchers