A character actor who specialized in comically pompous roles, Richard Deacon is best known as the strait-laced, cowardly TV producer Mel Cooley on the '60s TV sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show.
Richard Deacon
May 14, 1921 - August 8, 1984 (aged 63)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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A character actor who specialized in comically pompous roles, Richard Deacon is best known as the strait-laced, cowardly TV producer Mel Cooley on the '60s TV sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show.
