Richard Deacon

★ Acting #30,529

1922 - 1984 (age 62) • Acting

Born: 5/14/1922 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Died: 8/8/1984 (age 62)

Known for: Acting

Richard Deacon

★ Acting #30,529

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).

Known For

The Twilight Zone

85%

Wallace V. Whipple

1959

I Dream of Jeannie

78%

Harley Z. Poof

1965

Bonanza

75%

Captain Shark

1959

The Munsters

79%

Borden T. Pike

1964

The Addams Family

80%

Mortimer Phelps

1964

Get Smart

80%

Unknown

1965

The Love Boat

63%

Dr. Yates

1977

Blackbeard's Ghost

67%

Dean Wheaton

1968

The Hoboken Chicken Emergency

57%

City Councilman

1984

Bad Manners

59%

Ticket Salesman

1984

The Awakening of Cassie

1982

No Man's Valley

70%

Panda (voice)

1981

The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood

35%

Joseph Rottman

1980

Murder Can Hurt You!

Mr. Burnice

1980

The Gossip Columnist

73%

Director

1980

Steve Martin: Comedy Is Not Pretty

70%

King of Cey What

1980

Trapper John, M.D.

66%

Unknown

1979

Piranha

60%

Earl Lyon

1978

Getting Married

60%

Wedding Director

1978

Rabbit Test

45%

First Newscaster

1978

The Love Boat

63%

Dr. Yates

1977

CHiPs

68%

Mr. Singleton

1977

Alice

70%

Unknown

1976

The Man from Clover Grove

80%

Charlie Strange

1975

The Lost Saucer

60%

Unknown

1975

Honeymoon Suite

Unknown

1972

McMillan & Wife

71%

/ Luther Dorfman

1971

The Pet Set

67%

Self

1971

Night Gallery

78%

Man with Mallet (segment "How to Cure the Common Vampire")

1970

Love, American Style

62%

Boyd Daniels / Charlie / Charles Furman

1969

Arsenic and Old Lace

70%

Mr. Witherspoon

1969

Lady in Cement

62%

Arnie Sherwin

1968

Here's Lucy

67%

Loan Officer / Harvey Hoople

1968

The Narco Men

Records Clerk

1968

The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band

61%

Charlie Wrenn

1968

Blackbeard's Ghost

67%

Dean Wheaton

1968