1963Winner
Best Performance
The Birds
Richard Deacon
Actor
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
May 14, 1922
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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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1956Nominee
Best Performance
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978Nominee
Best Performance
Piranha
Career Highlights
1954Highlight
Best Performance
Them!
1959Highlight
Best Performance
A Summer Place