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Richard Deacon (May 14, 1921 – August 8, 1984), born in Philadelphia, was an American television and motion picture actor. The bald and usually bespectacled character actor often portrayed pompous or imperious figures. He made appearances on The Jack Benny Show as a salesman and a barber, and on NBC's Happy as a hotel manager. He had a brief role in Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds (1963), and a larger role in the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), as a physician in the "book-end" sequences added to the beginning and end of this film after its original previews. He... MORE

Richard Deacon (May 14, 1921 – August 8, 1984), born in Philadelphia, was an American television and motion picture actor. The bald and usually bespectacled character actor often portrayed pompous or imperious figures. He made appearances on The Jack Benny Show as a salesman and a barber, and on NBC's Happy as a hotel manager. He had a brief role in Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds (1963), and a larger role in the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), as a physician in the "book-end" sequences added to the beginning and end of this film after its original previews. He portrayed the historically infamous Chairman of the Columbia Aircraft Corp, Charles A. Levine, who, in February 1927, refused to sell Charles Lindbergh his company's recently acquired Bellanca monoplane for Lindbergh’s famous trans-atlantic flight unless his company could choose the crew. Deacon later immortalized the scene in the 1957 release of the Billy Wilder/Jimmy Stewart adaptation of Lindbergh’s Pulitzer Prize winning account of his famous flight, The Spirit of St. Louis. His best-known roles are Mel Cooley on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966) and Fred Rutherford on Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963), LESS