RICHARD DEACON (ACTOR)
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''For the sculptor, see Richard Deacon''
'Richard Deacon' (May 14, 1921 – August 8, 1984), born in Philadelphia, was an American television and motion picture actor.
He was a bald-pated and usually bespectacled character actor who often portrayed imperious authority figures. He made appearances on The Jack Benny Show as a salesperson. He had a brief role in Alfred Hitchcock's film ''The Birds'' and a larger role in the original ''Invasion of the Body Snatchers'', portraying a doctor in the "book-end" sequences added to the beginning and end of this film after its original previews. His best-known roles are Mel Cooley on ''The Dick Van Dyke Show'', Fred Rutherford on ''Leave It to Beaver'' (Mr. Baxter in the pilot episode, "It's a Small World") and as Roger "Cutes" Buell on ''The Mothers-in-Law''. He also appeared as a guest on the 1970s game show ''Match Game'', and played ''Horace Vandergelder'' opposite Phyllis Diller's ''Dolly Gallagher Levi'' in a touring production of the musical ''Hello, Dolly!''.
In real life, he was a gourmet chef. In the 1970s and 1980s, he wrote a series of cookbooks and hosted a television series on microwave cooking. He would stand behind a desk and say to customers "I'm standing behind here because in a moment of spontaneity, I sold my pants".
On August 8, 1984, Deacon died from cardiovascular disease at the age of 63.
Posthumously, he was revealed to have been gay, and his interview with Boze Hadleigh was published in Hadleigh's ''Hollywood Gays'' (ISBN# 1-56980-083-9/PN1995.9.H55H33), pp.67-76, although during his lifetime he made no particular secret of his sexual orientation. "Most would be surprised. Only because what you see on TV -- a serious guy in a suit, unsmiling -- isn't how anyone thinks of gay males."[1]
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'Richard Deacon' (May 14, 1921 – August 8, 1984), born in Philadelphia, was an American television and motion picture actor.
He was a bald-pated and usually bespectacled character actor who often portrayed imperious authority figures. He made appearances on The Jack Benny Show as a salesperson. He had a brief role in Alfred Hitchcock's film ''The Birds'' and a larger role in the original ''Invasion of the Body Snatchers'', portraying a doctor in the "book-end" sequences added to the beginning and end of this film after its original previews. His best-known roles are Mel Cooley on ''The Dick Van Dyke Show'', Fred Rutherford on ''Leave It to Beaver'' (Mr. Baxter in the pilot episode, "It's a Small World") and as Roger "Cutes" Buell on ''The Mothers-in-Law''. He also appeared as a guest on the 1970s game show ''Match Game'', and played ''Horace Vandergelder'' opposite Phyllis Diller's ''Dolly Gallagher Levi'' in a touring production of the musical ''Hello, Dolly!''.
In real life, he was a gourmet chef. In the 1970s and 1980s, he wrote a series of cookbooks and hosted a television series on microwave cooking. He would stand behind a desk and say to customers "I'm standing behind here because in a moment of spontaneity, I sold my pants".
On August 8, 1984, Deacon died from cardiovascular disease at the age of 63.
Posthumously, he was revealed to have been gay, and his interview with Boze Hadleigh was published in Hadleigh's ''Hollywood Gays'' (ISBN# 1-56980-083-9/PN1995.9.H55H33), pp.67-76, although during his lifetime he made no particular secret of his sexual orientation. "Most would be surprised. Only because what you see on TV -- a serious guy in a suit, unsmiling -- isn't how anyone thinks of gay males."[1]
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