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Richard Deacon

Highest Rated:
100% The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956)
Lowest Rated:
33% North to Alaska (1960)
Birthday:
May 14, 1921
Birthplace:
Not Available
Bio:
Very early in his stage career, Richard Deacon was advised by Helen Hayes to abandon all hopes of becoming a leading man: instead, she encouraged him to aggressively pursue a career as a character actor. Tall, bald, bespectacled and bass-voiced since high school, Deacon heeded Ms. Hayes' advice, and…

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 33% - 100%
Number of Movies: 50
Box Office Since 2001: --
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
1984 Growing Pains (Bad Manners)
  • Ticket Salesman
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1983 Still the Beaver
  • Actor
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1982 Awakening of Cassie
  • Actor
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1981 No Man's Valley
  • Actor
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1980 The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood (Hollywood Blue)
  • Actor
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1978 70% Piranha
  • Earl
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1968 80% Blackbeard's Ghost
  • Dean Wheaton
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1968 Lady in Cement
  • Arnie Sherwin
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1968 The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
  • Charlie Wrenn
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1967 The Gnome-Mobile
  • Ralph Yarby
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1967 44% Enter Laughing
  • Pike
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1966 Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title
  • Police Chief
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1965 93% That Darn Cat!
  • Drive-in Manager
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1965 Billie
  • Principal Wilson
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1964 Dear Heart
  • Mr. Cruikshank
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1964 80% The Patsy
  • Sy Devore
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1964 60% The Disorderly Orderly
  • Mr. Courtney
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1964 John Goldfarb, Please Come Home
  • Maginot
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1963 40% Who's Minding the Store?
  • Tie salesman
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1963 95% The Birds
  • Man in Elevator
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1962 78% That Touch of Mink
  • Mr. Miller
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1962 Critic's Choice
  • Harvey Rittenhouse
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1961 Everything's Ducky
  • Dr. Deckham
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1961 88% Lover Come Back
  • Dr. Melnick
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1960 33% North to Alaska
  • Angus Desk Clerk
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1959 67% The Young Philadelphians (The City Jungle)
  • George Archibald
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1959 83% A Summer Place
  • Pawnbroker
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1958 88% The Last Hurrah
  • Graves
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1957 Decision at Sundown
  • Zaron
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1957 84% The Spirit of St. Louis
  • Levine
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1957 Kiss Them for Me
  • Bill Hotchkiss
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1957 My Man Godfrey
  • Farnsworth
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1956 The Proud Ones
  • Barber
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1956 Kettles in the Ozarks
  • Cod Head
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1956 When Gangland Strikes
  • Actor
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1956 97% Invasion of the Body Snatchers
  • Dr. Harvey Bassett
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1956 83% Carousel
  • Policeman
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1956 Francis in the Haunted House
  • Jason
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1956 83% Hot Blood
  • Mr. Swift
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1956 100% The Solid Gold Cadillac
  • Williams
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1956 The Power and the Prize
  • Howard Carruthers
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1955 33% Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
  • Semu
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1955 69% This Island Earth
  • Pilot
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1955 76% Blackboard Jungle
  • Actor
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1955 Good Morning, Miss Dove
  • Mr. Spivey
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1955 Lay That Rifle Down
  • Glover Speckleton
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1955 My Sister Eileen
  • George
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1954 Rogue Cop
  • Stacy
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1954 Desirée
  • Etienne
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1954 100% Them!
  • Actor
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