Richard Deacon

Richard Deacon is known for acting, with films including The Birds, A Summer Place, Them!. Browse the full filmography and find where to stream on sseenn.

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).

Filmography

• The Birds (1963)
• A Summer Place (1959)
• Them! (1954)
• Piranha (1978)
• The Gnome-Mobile (1967)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
• Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)
• North to Alaska (1960)
• Invaders from Mars (1953)
• That Touch of Mink (1962)
• That Darn Cat! (1965)
• Désirée (1954)
• The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
• The Young Philadelphians (1959)
• Decision at Sundown (1957)
• Blackboard Jungle (1955)
• Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
• This Island Earth (1955)
• Lover Come Back (1961)
• The Last Hurrah (1958)
• Who's Minding the Store? (1963)
• Lady in Cement (1968)
• Designing Woman (1957)
• The Patsy (1964)