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Richard Deacon: A Flappable Foil by Trav S.D.

Bald-pated, bespectacled character actor Richard Deacon (1921-1984) was one of the great comic foils of all time, and one of the first to spring entirely from the television era. For over a decade he was a sitcom staple, first as Lumpy's father Fred Rutherford on Leave it to Beaver (1957-1963), then as the humorless Mel […]

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:03AM on May 14, 2019

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