Richard Deacon

Acting

Richard Deacon

Born 1922-05-14 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 76 films

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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Filmography

76 films
Bad Manners poster

Four teens on the run from an orphanage spring a fellow orphan recently adopted by a rich family, t…

Bad Manners

★ 5.9 1984

Piranha poster

When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests beco…

Piranha

★ 6.0 1978

Rabbit Test poster

Lionel's life turns around after a one-night stand on top of a pinball table... he becomes the worl…

Rabbit Test

★ 4.5 1978