

Richard Deacon
Acting
May 14, 1922
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
August 8, 1984
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 Filmography


The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood

Steve Martin: Comedy Is Not Pretty

Blackbeard's Ghost

The King's Pirate

The Gnome-Mobile

Enter Laughing

Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N.

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

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

Dear Heart

The Patsy

That Touch of Mink

Everything's Ducky

The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker

Affair in Reno

The Power and the Prize

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy

Private Hell 36
