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).
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Acting History
1984
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency as City Councilman
1984Bad Manners as Ticket Salesman
1982The Awakening of Cassie
1981No Man's Valley as Panda (voice)
1980The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood as Joseph Rottman
1980Murder Can Hurt You! as Mr. Burnice
1980The Gossip Columnist as Director
1980Steve Martin: Comedy Is Not Pretty as King of Cey What
1979Trapper John, M.D.
1978Piranha as Earl Lyon
1978Getting Married as Wedding Director
1978Rabbit Test as First Newscaster
1977The Love Boat as Dr. Yates
1977CHiPs as Mr. Singleton
1976Alice
1975The Man from Clover Grove as Charlie Strange
1975The Lost Saucer
1972Honeymoon Suite
1971McMillan & Wife
1971McMillan & Wife as Luther Dorfman
1971The Pet Set as Self
1970Night Gallery as Man with Mallet (segment "How to Cure the Common Vampire")
1969Love, American Style as Charlie
1969Love, American Style as Charles Furman
1969Love, American Style as Boyd Daniels
1969Arsenic and Old Lace as Mr. Witherspoon
1968Lady in Cement as Arnie Sherwin
1968Here's Lucy as Harvey Hoople
1968Here's Lucy as Loan Officer
1968Persecución hasta Valencia as Records Clerk
1968The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band as Charlie Wrenn
1968Blackbeard's Ghost as Dean Wheaton
1967The Mothers-in-Law as Roger Buell
1967The King's Pirate as Swaine
1967The Gnome-Mobile as Ralph Yarby
1967Enter Laughing as Pike
1967Rango
1966The Pruitts of Southampton as Baldwin
1966Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N. as Survival Manual Narrator
1966Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title as Mr. Travis / Police Chief
1966The Carol Channing Show as Leon Thatcher
1965Billie as Principal Arnold Wilson
1965That Darn Cat! as Drive-in-Manager
1965I Dream of Jeannie as Harley Z. Poof
1965Get Smart
1965Green Acres as Mr. Oglethorpe
1965John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! as Maginot
1965Dear Heart as Mr. Cruikshank
1964The Munsters as Borden T. Pike
1964The Addams Family as Mortimer Phelps
1964The Patsy as Sy Devore
1963The Raiders as Commissioner Mailer
1963Who's Minding the Store? as Tie Salesman
1963Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Self
1963My Favorite Martian as Mr. Bentley
1963The Birds as Mitch's City Neighbor
1963Critic's Choice as Harvey Rittenhouse
1962The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1962The Beverly Hillbillies
1962The Beverly Hillbillies as Mr. Brubaker
1962That Touch of Mink as Mr. Miller
1962About Time as The Butler
1961Lover Come Back as Dr. Melnick
1961Everything's Ducky as Dr. Deckham
1961The Dick Van Dyke Show as Mel Cooley
196187th Precinct as Martin
1961All in a Night's Work as Fur Salesman (uncredited)
1961Mister Ed
1961Mister Ed as Tatti (voice) (uncredited)
1961Mister Ed as Dr. Baker
1960North to Alaska as Angus - Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
1960My Three Sons
1960Guestward, Ho!
1960Pete and Gladys
1959A Summer Place as Pawnbroker (uncredited)
1959-30- as Chapman
1959The Untouchables as Bill Skidmore
1959Hawaiian Eye as Funeral Director
1959Bourbon Street Beat
1959The Twilight Zone as Wallace V. Whipple
1959The Man Who Understood Women as Rossi (uncredited)
1959The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis as Cecil Ellingboe
1959Bonanza as Captain Shark
1959It Started with a Kiss as Capt. Porter (uncredited)
1959The Silent Kill as Michael Gilmore
1959The Young Philadelphians as George Archibald
1959The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker as Sheriff
1958The Last Hurrah as Graves (uncredited)
1958A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed as Milburn Schroeder
195877 Sunset Strip as Wallace Friend
1958The Rifleman
1958The Ed Wynn Show as Conway
1958The Donna Reed Show
1958The High Cost of Loving as Obstetrician (uncredited)
1957Jack Benny Christmas Shopping Show as Shirt Salesman
1957Kiss Them for Me as Bill Hotchkiss (uncredited)
1957Decision at Sundown as Reverend Zaron
1957The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour as Winslow (uncredited)
1957My Man Godfrey as Farnsworth
1957Leave It to Beaver as Fred Rutherford
1957The Real McCoys
1957The Real McCoys as Mr. Laidlaw
1957Maverick as Floyd Gimbel
1957Perry Mason as Wilmer Beaslee
1957The Thin Man
1957The Hired Man as Harry Attwood
1957Designing Woman as Larry Musso (uncredited)
1957Date with the Angels
1957The Spirit of St. Louis as Charles Levine - President, Columbia Aircraft Co. (uncredited)
1957Spring Reunion as Sidney (uncredited)
1957Affair in Reno as H.L. Denham
1957Annette as Uncle Archie McCleod
1956The Power and the Prize as Howard Carruthers
1956The Solid Gold Cadillac as Williams (uncredited)
1956The Proud Ones as Barber (uncredited)
1956The Kettles in the Ozarks as Big Trout
1956Hot Blood as Mr. Swift (uncredited)
1956Invasion of the Body Snatchers as Emergency Room Doctor
1956Invasion of the Body Snatchers as Dr. Harvey Bassett (uncredited)
1955Good Morning, Miss Dove as Mr. Spivvy (uncredited)
1955The 20th Century Fox Hour as Paul Erickson
1955Screen Director's Playhouse as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
1955My Sister Eileen as Baker's Receptionist (uncredited)
1955Navy Log
1955The Great Gildersleeve
1955Gunsmoke as Botkin
1955Lay That Rifle Down as Glover Speckleton
1955Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy as Semu
1955This Island Earth as Spacecraft Pilot
1955Blackboard Jungle as Mr. Stanley (uncredited)
1955The Millionaire as Jeweler
1955The Millionaire as Foundation Rep. Gibson
1955Prince of Players as Theatre Manager
1955The Bob Cummings Show as District Attorney
1954Cry Vengeance as Bartender at The Cameo Room
1954Désirée as Etienne Clary
1954December Bride
1954December Bride as James, Desi Arnaz's Butler
1954Private Hell 36 as Mr. Mace (uncredited)
1954Shield for Murder as The Professor
1954Them! as Bald Reporter at L.A. News Conference
1954Public Defender as Truant Officer
1953Invaders from Mars as MP
1953The Life Of Riley as Chauffeur
1952The Ford Television Theatre as Planter O'Toole
1951Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Dr. Thomas Gregory
1950The Jack Benny Program as Shirt Salesman
1950The Jack Benny Program
1950Lux Video Theatre as Sheldon
1950Lux Video Theatre as Norton
1950The Bob Hope Show as Self
1948Ford Theatre