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Richard Deacon
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).
As actor
Bad Manners
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
The Awakening of Cassie
No Man's Valley
The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood
Steve Martin: Comedy Is Not Pretty
Murder Can Hurt You!
The Gossip Columnist
Piranha
Getting Married
Rabbit Test
The Man from Clover Grove
Arsenic and Old Lace
Lady in Cement
Blackbeard's Ghost
The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
The Narco Men
The Gnome-Mobile
Enter Laughing
The King's Pirate
Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title
Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N.
Billie
Dear Heart
That Darn Cat!
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
The Patsy
The Birds
Critic's Choice
The Raiders