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Richard Deacon

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Richard Deacon

May 14, 1922 – Aug 8, 1984141 titles 75 movies · 66 TV
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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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Richard Lewis Deacon

Born

May 14, 1922 – Aug 8, 1984

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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1948 1 title(s)

1950 3 title(s)

1951 1 title(s)

1952 1 title(s)

1953 3 title(s)

1954 7 title(s)

1955 14 title(s)

1956 6 title(s)

1957 17 title(s)

1958 7 title(s)

1959 13 title(s)

1960 4 title(s)

1961 6 title(s)

1962 4 title(s)

1963 6 title(s)

1964 3 title(s)

1965 7 title(s)

1966 4 title(s)

1967 5 title(s)

1968 5 title(s)

1969 2 title(s)

1970 1 title(s)

1971 2 title(s)

1972 1 title(s)

1975 2 title(s)

1976 2 title(s)

1977 2 title(s)

1978 3 title(s)

1979 1 title(s)

1980 4 title(s)

1981 1 title(s)

1982 1 title(s)

1984 2 title(s)