Deacon often portrayed pompous, prissy, and/or imperious figures in film and television. He made appearances on The Jack Benny Program as a salesman and a barber, and on NBC's Happy as a hotel manager. He made a brief appearance in Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds (1963). He played a larger role in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) as a physician in the "book-end" sequences added to the beginning and end of the film after its original previews.
In Carousel (1956), the film adaptation of the Rodgers & Hammerstein stage musical, Deacon had a bit role as the policeman who admonishes Julie and Mr. Bascombe about Billy Bigelow in the "bench scene". It was one of the few films in which he did not wear glasses, as were his roles in Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955), and the 1954 costumer Désirée, where he played Jean Simmons' elder brother, an 18th-century Marseilles silk merchant. Philadelphia native Deacon played the role of Morton Stearnes' butler, George Archibald, whose courtroom testimony is a turning point in The Young Philadelphians (1959), starring Paul Newman. He played an imbibing justice of the peace, Reverend Zaron, in the 1957 Budd Boetticher western Decision at Sundown.
In 1971, Deacon co-starred, along with Elaine Joyce, in the final episode of Green Acres, which was a backdoor pilot for a proposed sitcom titled "The Blonde" or "Carol". Joyce played Oliver's former "dizzy blonde" secretary, Carol Rush, who now lives in Los Angeles with her sister and brother-in-law. Deacon played her no-nonsense boss, Mr. Oglethorpe, whom Carol manages to save from a real estate scam. The pilot was not picked up.
In 1969, he co-starred on Broadway as Horace Vandergelder in the long-running musical Hello, Dolly!, reuniting him onstage with Diller, who played the title character.[11]
In 1983, Deacon reprised his role of Fred Rutherford in the television movie Still the Beaver, a sequel to the original TV series. When the television movie spawned a series of the same name on The Disney Channel, he was to reprise the role but died weeks before the series began production.
In 1984, Deacon had a cameo role in the teen comedy film Bad Manners.
Personal life
Although he was born in Philadelphia, he and his family later moved to Binghamton, New York, living on the west side of that city. He attended West Junior High and Binghamton Central High School, where fellow Binghamton resident Rod Serling was a classmate.[12][13] After high school, he worked as an orderly at Binghamton General Hospital.[14]
During World War II, Deacon served in the United States Army medical corps. In 1946, upon completion of his service, he returned to Binghamton. He attended Ithaca College, first as a medical student, but later developed an interest in acting.[14] In 1949, Deacon, along with several other male actors, was admitted to Bennington College as a student/assistant in the drama department.[15]
Deacon was a gourmetchef in addition to working as an actor. In the 1970s and 1980s, he wrote a series of cookbooks and hosted a Canadian television series on microwave oven cooking.[1]
While not widely known during Deacon's lifetime, he was a charitable man. At his memorial service, a number of people previously unknown to Deacon's friends and colleagues spoke of how Deacon had provided for needy people and charitable organizations during his life.[16]
According to academic writers David L. Smith and Sean Griffin, Deacon was gay, and was among "a number of actors and actresses who were closeted homosexuals" working in Hollywood and often employed in Disney films.[17][18]
^National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; WWII Draft Registration Cards for New York State, 10/16/1940 - 03/31/1947; Record Group: Records of the Selective Service System, 147
^"High School Friend on Serling's 'Twilight'". Los Angeles Times. April 14, 1964. p. C11. ProQuest168543480. Two high school friends meet in their first professional association when Richard Deacon appears in his first non-comic portrayal and his first starring role in Rod Serling's drama, 'The Brain at Whipple's' on 'Twilight Zone' in May. Deacon and Serling attended the same school in Binghamton, N.Y.
^Handte, Jerry (August 10, 1984). "Deacon's teacher recalls 'stage-struck' boy". The Binghamton Evening Press. p. 9. ProQuest2044421150. The 62-year-old Philadelphia native, who came to Binghamton as a boy, died of apparently natural causes, possibly after a heart attack, at his West Los Angeles home, a coroner's spokesman said. [...] He had visited his hometown last year, for the world premiere of the movie Twilight Zone, based on the hit television series created by the late Rod Serling, the TV writer from Binghamton. Deacon and Serling were classmates and friends at West Junior and the old Binghamton Central High School.
^ abSmith, Gerald R. (June 4, 2016). "Binghamton's link to the Petries". Press & Sun Bulletin. p. 2A. ProQuest2059699400. He was born in Philadelphia in 1921, but at the age of 10, his father, Joseph Deacon, obtained a job as a salesman for the Franklin Research Co. and moved the family to Binghamton. Richard and his brother Frederick Bruce Deacon grew up on the west side of the city of Binghamton at 121 Crary Ave. His home was only a few blocks from another famous Binghamtonian, Rod Serling, who lived on Bennett Avenue. Both boys would attend Binghamton High School. Richard was a few years ahead of Rod and would graduate in 1938. After high school, Richard wandered a bit looking for a new life. He got a job at Binghamton General Hospital working as an orderly because he thought he wanted to be a doctor. [...] World War II broke out, and because so many young working men joined the armed services, Richard tried to join the Navy. But they turned him down; instead, the recruiter sent him across the street to the Army because, as Richard said later, the Army would take anyone. [...] Richard served in the medical corps during the war. At one time, he was in charge of the laboratory services for a 5,000-bed hospital. After the war, Richard came back and attended Ithaca College to study medicine. It was at this time that he realized medicine was not his calling, and he tried acting.
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