Richard Deacon Filmography

Still the Beaver

Actors: Barbara Billingsley, Jerry Mathers

Synopsis: Perhaps it's a blessing that old Ward Cleaver didn't live to see how his son Beaver (Jerry Mathers) turned out. Now in his mid-30s, the Beav is divorced, out of work, and living in his mother's house with his two children. Beaver's brother Wally, also married, is doing rather better, but his Read More

Alice: The Grass is Always Greener

Synopsis: Ready for a major role reversal? Well, that's just what happens when Mel (Vic Tayback) gives up his diner to become an executive employee for a major catering firm led by R.J. Meyerson (played by the great Richard Deacon). At the same time, the waitresses take over ownership of the diner, making Read More

The Awakening of Cassie

Synopsis: This is a romantic tale about a lovely artist who tastes the painful bliss of first love. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

No Man's Valley

Synopsis: In this television outing, condors run aerial reconnaissance to find new habitats that are free of human influence. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder Can Hurt You

Actors: Victor Buono, John Byner, Gavin MacLeod

Synopsis: Producer Aaron Spelling's made-for-TV Murder Can Hurt You is an unsubtle take-off of Neil Simon's theatrical feature Murder By Death. A crime is committed by the unknown, all-seeing Master Criminal. To solve the case, several top detectives are summoned, each one a takeoff of a popular TV gumshoe. Read More

The Happy Hooker Goes to Hollywood

Actors: Martine Beswicke, Adam West, Phil Silvers, Richard Deacon, Edie Adams

Synopsis: The notorious madam Xaviera Hollander travels to Tinseltown to film her illustrious autobiography in this comedy. The trouble begins when she encounters a few crooked producers looking to exploit her. Look for a variety of second-string and cult stars including Martine Beswick, Dick Miller, and Adam West Read More

B.J. and the Bear: Season 01

Actors: Greg Evigan, Claude Akins, Mills Watson, Richard Deacon, Ed Lauter, Slim Pickens

Piranha

Actors: Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy, Keenan Wynn, Dick Miller

Synopsis: The sophomore effort for director Joe Dante, a future protégé of Steven Spielberg, this low-budget, high-camp horror spoof of Jaws (1977) features several chiller stars of yesteryear. Insurance investigator Maggie McKeown (Heather Menzies) is dispatched to find two missing teenage hikers near Lost Read More

Getting Married

Actors: Richard Thomas, Bess Armstrong, Dena Dietrich, Fabian, Mark Harmon

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a news anchorwoman's prenuptial jitters increase dramatically when another man, a songwriter, falls deeply in love with her and decides that he would do anything to be her husband. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Honeymoon Suite

Green Acres: The Ex-Secretary

Actors: Elaine Joyce, Emmaline Henry, Richard Deacon, George Furth, Cliff Norton

Synopsis: Seeking the location of a New York repair shop for his broken antique watch, Oliver (Eddie Albert) gets in touch with his former secretary Carol Rush (Elaine Joyce), who is now working for a realtor. One thing leads to another, and by the end of the story Oliver and Carol have combined forces to Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Farm In the Ocean

Synopsis: In the sixth episode of a nine-part story arc, Granny tries to reconcile herself to the impending marriage between Elly May and Navy frogman Mark Templeton (Roger Torrey). Alas, Granny is still unable to shake the notion that Mark is more "frog" than "man." Her suspicions about Mark's amphibian Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Doctor, Cure My Frog

Synopsis: In the third episode of a nine-part story arc, the romance between Elly May and Navy frogman Mark Templeton (Roger Torrey) is progressing smoothly. Meanwhile, Granny continues to labor under the misapprehension that Mark is half-human, half-amphibian. To prevent Mark from lapsing into frog-hood Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Do You, Elly, Take This Frog?

Synopsis: In the fourth episode of a nine-part story arc, Navy frogman Mark Templeton (Roger Torrey) is on the verge of proposing to Elly May. Everyone in the Clampett clan is delighted -- everyone, that is, except Granny, who still believes that the designation "frogman" means that Mark is half-frog. In a Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: The Frog Family

Synopsis: In the fifth episode of a nine-part story arc, Elly May's engagement to Navy frogman Mark Templeton (Roger Torrey) continues to terrify Granny, who believes that Mark is half-man, half-frog. Granny has further convinced herself that the source of Mark's "frog side" is the Clampett swimming pool. Read More

The Narco Men

Actors: Lorenza Guerrieri

Synopsis: This is an English-dubbed version of the Spanish and Italian-made 1967crime action feature, also released with the name The Narco Men. It stars Tom Tryon, who shortly after this period left acting completely and went on to become a quite successful novelist. Harry Bell (Tryon) is an Interpol agent Read More

The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band

Actors: Walter Brennan, Buddy Ebsen, John Davidson, Lesley Ann Warren, Janet Blair

Synopsis: Set in 1888, this tuneful fact-based Disney production concerns the attempts of a musically talented family of Dakota pioneers -- who are politically divided on the upcoming presidential election -- to wrangle an invite to that year's Democratic convention in cosmopolitan St. Louis. Incumbent Read More

Blackbeard's Ghost

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette, Elsa Lanchester, Joby Baker

Synopsis: Blackbeard's Ghost was one of the first Disney productions released after Walt's death. Peter Ustinov stars as the eponymous wraith, who returns to Earth to come to aid of his descendant, elderly Elsa Lanchester. The villains want to kick Lanchester and her friends out of their group home so that Read More

The Mothers-in-Law: Season 02

Actors: Eve Arden, Kaye Ballard, Richard Deacon, Jerry Fogel, Herbert Rudley, Deborah Walley

Lady in Cement

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Richard Conte, Martin Gabel, Lainie Kazan

Synopsis: Tony Rome (Frank Sinatra) is a Miami private detective who discovers a lady in cement while scuba diving. Rome is hired by Gronsky (Dan Blocker) to find out if the woman is his missing girlfriend. He interviews Kit Forrest (Raquel Welch), a boozy socialite who had seen the woman at a drunken party Read More

The King's Pirate

Actors: Doug McClure, Jill St. John, Guy Stockwell, Mary Ann Mobley, Kurt Kasznar

Synopsis: This very economical remake of the 1952 Errol Flynn vehicle Against All Flags stars Doug McClure in the Flynn role. Cashiered from the royal navy in disgrace, McClure becomes a buccaneer, guiding his loyal crew to an island completely populated by cutthroats. Here he links up with pirate-captain Guy Stockwell Read More

I Dream of Jeannie: Who Are You Calling a Jeannie?

Synopsis: Just as Tony (Larry Hagman) developed amnesia in the first-season episode "I'll Never Forget What's Her Name", so too does Jeannie (Barbara Eden) lose her memory in this third-season offering. Unable to remember anything, Jeannie refuses to believe that she is a genie, going so far as to hire a Read More

The Gnome-Mobile

Actors: Walter Brennan, Tom Lowell, Matthew Garber, Karen Dotrice, Ed Wynn, Richard Deacon

Synopsis: The Gnome-Mobile was Walt Disney's first all-out fantasy since Mary Poppins. Walter Brennan stars in a dual role, as kindly lumber tycoon D. J. Mulrooney and the irascible (and much tinier) 943-year-old gnome Knobby. Mulrooney likes Knobby and his fellow gnomes, but the feeling isn't reciprocal Read More

Enter Laughing

Actors: José Ferrer, Reni Santoni, Shelley Winters, Elaine May, Jack Gilford

Synopsis: Carl Reiner's semi-autobiographical novel Enter Laughing makes a largely successful transition to the screen. Reni Santoni plays the Reiner character, here named David Kolowitz. A machinist's apprentice in Depression-era New York, David dreams of becoming the new Ronald Colman. Defying the wishes Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: A Plot for Granny

Synopsis: Hoping to purchase some farmland for Granny, Jed gets his signals crossed and ends up at the Happy Valley Cemetery. Likewise confused are cemetery-plot salesmen Brubaker (Richard Deacon) and Mortimer (Jesse White). Convinced that Granny has passed over to the other side, the two men try to sell Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Obnoxious, Offensive, Egomaniac, Etc.

Actors: Carl Reiner, Richard Deacon, Forrest Lewis

Synopsis: Fed up with their boss Alan Brady's tyrannical behavior, Rob (Dick Van Dyke), Sally (Rose Marie), and Buddy (Morey Amsterdam) capriciously dash off a script for the show festooned with insults directed at Alan. Of course, they've only done this to let off steam, and have no intention of submitting Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Talk to the Snail

Actors: Carl Reiner, Paul Winchell, Henry Gibson, Richard Deacon

Synopsis: Rob (Dick Van Dyke) comes across a crumpled network memo ordering his boss Alan Brady (Carl Reiner) to fire one of his writers. Certain that his job is on the chopping block, Rob reluctantly violates the edicts of his contract by looking for an outside writing assignment. His search leads to a Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Buddy Sorrell, Man and Boy

Actors: Richard Deacon, Pippa Scott, Ed Peck, Sheldon Golomb

Synopsis: Rob (Dick Van Dyke) and Sally (Rose Marie) suspect that something is amiss when Buddy (Morey Amsterdam) starts behaving strangely, making secret phone calls and leaving work before quitting time. At first, it seems that Buddy is visiting a psychiatrist -- but then, evidence falls in Rob's lap that Read More

Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title

Actors: Morey Amsterdam, Richard Deacon, Tim Herbert

Synopsis: Unfortunately, the comedy in this film is just about as crummy as its title. On the bright side, it does feature a number of veterans from popular TV sitcoms. It is set in a run-down diner where a bumbling short-order cook and a klutzy waitress work. They are so terrible at their jobs that they Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: A Day in the Life of Alan Brady

Actors: Carl Reiner, Richard Deacon, Jerry Paris, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Joyce Jameson

Synopsis: It is hardly surprising that Rob's overbearing, egotistical boss Alan Brady (Carl Reiner) has commissioned a filmed documentary about a "typical" day in his life. Nor is it unusual that Alan wants to film a key scene from the documentary in the living room of Rob (Dick Van Dyke) and Laura (Mary Tyler Moore Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Dear Sally Rogers

Actors: Richard Deacon, Richard Stahl, Bill Idelson

Synopsis: Once again guesting on the late-night "Stevie Parsons Show," Sally (Rose Marie) opts for a few quick laughs by advertising for a husband. The joke turns out to be no joke when thousands upon thousands of marriage proposals pour into the offices of the TV show. Carrying the stunt a step farther Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Gunslinger

Actors: Carl Reiner, Richard Deacon, Jerry Paris, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Allan Melvin

Synopsis: In keeping with producer Carl Reiner's edict, "Always leave 'em laughing," the final episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show (though not the final one to be shown) is one of the series' funniest outings. Assigned to write a cowboy sketch for his boss Alan Brady, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) dreams up an Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Last Chapter

Actors: Carl Reiner, Richard Deacon, Jerry Paris, Ann Morgan Guilbert

Synopsis: After five long years, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) finally finishes his autobiography. As he prepares to submit the masterpiece to a publisher, the series' cast revels in selected chapters -- thereby cuing lengthy excerpts from such past Dick Van Dyke Show episodes as "Where Did I Come From?," "The Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Bottom of Mel Cooley's Heart

Actors: Carl Reiner, Richard Deacon, Johnny Silver

Synopsis: Although he has grown accustomed to being insulted by his boss (and brother-in-law) Alan Brady (Carl Reiner), Mel Cooley (Richard Deacon) is nevertheless devastated when Alan loudly humiliates him in public. Disgusted by this spectacle, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) advises Mel to go into Alan's office and Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Redcoats Are Coming

Synopsis: In this marvelous spoof of "Beatlemania," singers Chad Stuart and Jeremy Clyde guest star as The Redcoats, a wildly popular British rock duo who've signed to appear on "The Alan Brady Show." Unfortunately, the Redcoats' horde of screaming teenaged fans make it impossible for the boys to rehearse Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Brother, Can You Spare $2500?

Synopsis: After he, Buddy (Morey Amsterdam), and Sally (Rose Marie) have labored for hours on this week's "Alan Brady Show" script, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) proceeds to lose the only copy of the script at Grand Central Station. Fortunately, the precious manuscript is recovered by a seedy bum (Gene Baylos); Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Boy #1, Boy #2

Synopsis: Against his better judgment, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) allows his son Ritchie (Larry Mathews) and the Helpers' son Freddie (Peter Oliphant) to be cast in a TV commercial. Just as Rob had feared, Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) and Millie Helper (Ann Morgan Guilbert) transform into the Stage Mothers from Hell Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Impractical Joke

Synopsis: In one of the series' best-ever episodes, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) is the victim of a practical joke perpetrated by Buddy (Morey Amsterdam) and his prankster pal Phil Franklin (Lennie Weinrib). At first delighted by the notion of ribbing Rob, Buddy is suddenly seized with paranoia as he wonders what Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Anthony Stone

Actors: Richard Deacon, Richard Angarola, Frank Adamo, Bob Hoffman

Synopsis: Rob (Dick Van Dyke) and Buddy (Morey Amsterdam) are dying with curiosity about the handsome stranger Sally (Rose Marie) met on a Caribbean cruise. Instead of prattling on and on about her latest "fella," Sally refuses to reveal anything about Anthony Stone (Richard Angarola) -- and that includes Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Coast-to-Coast Big Mouth

Actors: Carl Reiner, Richard Deacon, Dick Curtis

Synopsis: Season five of The Dick Van Dyke Show opens with one of the series' best episodes -- and an Emmy Award-winner to boot. While in the audience of "The Johnny Patrick Show," Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) is coerced to join host Patrick (Dick Curtis) on-stage, even though she's been warned that Johnny Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: A Show of Hands

Actors: Richard Deacon, Joel Fluellen, Henry Scott, Herkie Styles

Synopsis: While working on a costume for Ritchie's school play, Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) sticks her hands in a pot of permanent black dye. It gets worse: Rob (Dick Van Dyke) calls to tell Laura that they are expected to appear at a banquet to accept an award for Alan Brady. But wait, it gets even worse than Read More

That Darn Cat

Actors: Hayley Mills, Dean Jones, Dorothy Provine, Roddy McDowall, Neville Brand

Synopsis: Though overlong even for a Hayley Mills vehicle, That Darn Cat is an expert blend of laughs and suspense. The eponymous feline is D.C., a Siamese belonging to sisters Hayley Mills and Dorothy Provine. One evening, D.C. comes flouncing home with a lady's wristwatch attached to her neck. The watch Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Ugliest Dog in the World

Actors: Billy De Wolfe, Richard Deacon, George Tyne, Michael Conrad, Florence Halop

Synopsis: Billy De Wolfe guest-stars as a zany pet beautician (yes, pet beautician) in this canine spin on "Pygmalion." When a sketch on "The Alan Brady Show" involving a huge, ugly dog is cut just before air time, the staff is stuck with the aforementioned dog -- and of course no one wants to take care of Read More

Billie

Actors: Patty Duke, Jim Backus, Jane Greer, Warren Berlinger, Billy De Wolfe

Synopsis: Billie is a screen version of Ronald Alexander's perennial stage favorite Time Out For Ginger. Patty Duke plays a tomboyish high schooler who excels in athletics but who continues to strike out socially. Jim Backus and Jane Greer perform yeoman service as Duke's parents, who wonder how long it's Read More

The Patsy

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Ina Balin, Everett Sloane, Phil Harris, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: Toward the end of Jerry Lewis's Paramount studio period, Lewis slapped together this bitter comedy about Hollywood phoniness and fame that has to be the most rancid portrait of the Hollywood star system in the Rat Pack era this side of Clifford Odets. When a famous entertainer suddenly is killed Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Brain Center at Whipple's

Actors: Richard Deacon, Ted de Corsia, Thalmus Rasulala, Burt Conroy

Synopsis: Ruthlessly efficient businessman Wallace V. Whipple (Richard Deacon) runs roughshod over the feelings of his employees when he elects to fully automate his factory. Installing computers and robots, Whipple drives longtime worker Dickerson (Ted de Corsia) to take desperate measures to protect his Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: How to Spank a Star

Actors: Lola Albright, Richard Deacon

Synopsis: Rob (Dick Van Dyke) becomes temporary producer of "The Alan Brady Show" when temperamental guest star Paula Marshall (Lola Albright) refuses to work with Mel Cooley (Richard Deacon). Because Paula is one of Rob's favorite performers, Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) is none too happy that her husband and Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: I'd Rather Be Bald Than Have No Head at All

Actors: Richard Deacon, Ned Glass

Synopsis: In this classic episode, Rob (Richard Deacon) becomes obsessed with the notion that he's going bald. A trip to the barber (Ned Glass) doesn't provide much comfort, though Rob does come home with a hair-restoring formula that rather resembles a salad (and smells like one too). The situation is Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Return of Edwin Carp

Actors: Richard Haydn, Arlene Harris, Bert Gordon, Richard Deacon, Amzie Strickland

Synopsis: Rob (Dick Van Dyke) plans to devote an episode of "The Alan Brady Show" to a showcase of famous old radio comedians. The staff has no trouble lining up such venerable talent as Bert Gordon (the "Mad Russian" of The Eddie Cantor Show fame) and Arlene Harris (whose "Chatterbox" routines were Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Scratch My Car and Die

Actors: Richard Deacon, Ann Morgan Guilbert

Synopsis: Rob (Dick Van Dyke) has purchased a brand-new car, and is so paranoid over the notion of incurring the tiniest of scratches that he bans Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) from using the vehicle. Unfortunately, Laura is forced to drive the car to take Ritchie to school -- and just as unfortunately, when she Read More

My Favorite Martian: My Nephew, the Artist

Synopsis: In his efforts to help Tim (Bill Bixby) pay his household expenses, Uncle Martin (Ray Walston) tries to raise money by creating paintings in the exact styles of such famous artists as Van Gogh. The plan backfires when it is Tim, rather than Martin, who is lauded as an artistic genius--and as a Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: My Husband is the Best One

Actors: Valerie Yerke, Richard Deacon, Frank Adamo

Synopsis: During a lunchtime interview with Diane Moseby (Valerie Yerke) a reporter from "Newstime" who is doing a cover story on Alan Brady, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) is joined by Laura (Mary Tyler Moore). Thereafter, no matter how hard Rob tries to convince Diane that most of the credit for "The Alan Brady Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Third One from the Left

Actors: Richard Deacon, Cheryl Holdridge, Jimmy Murphy

Synopsis: Rob (Dick Van Dyke) is in a pickle when one of the "Alan Brady Show" dancers, 18-year-old Joan Delroy (Cheryl Holdridge), develops a crush on him. Although Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) finds the whole thing amusing, Rob can't see the humor in it. Not only is he old enough to be Joan's "father...er Read More

The Munsters: Pike's Pique

Synopsis: Gas company executive Borden T. Pike (Richard Deacon) wants to lay a new pipe in the basement of the Munster mansion. Unfortunately, Pike's employees run away in terror whenever they catch a glimpse of the monstrous (but harmless) Munster family. Figuring that the Munsters are deliberately Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Pen is Mightier Than the Mouth

Actors: Richard Deacon, Dick Patterson, Herb Vigran, Johnny Silver

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Sally (Rose Marie) is invited to appear on "The Stevie Parsons Show," a popular late-night chat-fest. She scores such a hit that Parsons (Dick Patterson) invites her back several times -- and before long, she is being courted as a regular guest. Only one Read More

The Disorderly Orderly

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Glenda Farrell, Everett Sloane, Karen Sharpe, Kathleen Freeman

Synopsis: In this comedy classic, Jerry Lewis plays Jerome Littlefield, an orderly in a mental hospital in this slapstick situation comedy that makes full use of Lewis's patented brand of screwball comedy. Dr. Jean Howard (Glenda Farrell) is the exasperated head of the sanitarium who almost becomes a Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Ghost of A. Chantz

Actors: Richard Deacon, Milton Parsons, Maurice Brenner

Synopsis: The usually ungenerous Mel Cooley (Richard Deacon) invites Rob (Dick Van Dyke), Laura (Mary Tyler Moore), Buddy (Morey Amsterdam), and Sally (Rose Marie) to spend a weekend at a fishing lodge -- only he forgets to make reservations. As a result, the gang is billeted at a vacant lakeside cabin Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: My Two Show-Offs and Me

Synopsis: Doris Singleton, best known to TV comedy fans as the nearsighted Caroline Appleby on I Love Lucy, appears in this episode as magazine writer Lorraine Gilman. Preparing a story on "The Alan Brady Show," Lorraine wants to sit in on a typical writing session. Head writer Rob (Dick Van Dyke) is Read More

Dear Heart

Actors: Glenn Ford, Geraldine Page, Michael Anderson, Jr., Barbara Nichols, Patricia Barry

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a middle-aged postmistress from a small town goes to a post office convention in New York and promptly falls in love with a man who is engaged to another. His fiancee is a widow with a teenage son. The man really wants a family, but he also really wants the Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: 4.5

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, the staff of "The Alan Brady Show" is invited to put on a performance for the men in the state penitentiary. The convict arranging the show is Lyle Delp (Don Rickles), who turns out to be an old friend of Rob (Dick Van Dyke) and Laura (Mary Tyler Moore).