Richard Deacon

Richard Deacon
Date of Birth: 14 May 1921
Country: USA
Total Credits at Criticker: 49 (Actor)
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The Birds
Birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people, in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness. (imdb)
Carousel
Billy is sent down "from above" for one day to try and make amends for mistakes he made in life. Billy worked at the carnival running the carousel... (imdb)
Piranha
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
The Disorderly Orderly
Jerome Littlefield is a very nice guy who works in a hospital. The problem is that he can't do anything right, so he destroys everything in his way... (imdb)
Blackboard Jungle
The Original 50's classic about a decent middle aged school teacher who goes to teach in an unruly high school filled with thugs led by Vic Morrow... (imdb)
Blackbeard\
In this comedy, Peter Ustinov is the famous pirate's ghost that returns to our time. Blackbeard has been cursed by his last wife who was a notorious witch, so that he will never die. (imdb)
That Touch of Mink
Cathy Timberlake is an old fashioned country girl who meets the man of her dreams, Philip Shayne, after his Rolls Royce splashes her with mud on her way to a job interview. Philip is a romantic businessman who is taken by Cathy's honest heart. There's one problem, he's not interested in marriage while Cathy has never thought of anything else. (imdb)
The Gnome-Mobile
An eccentric millionaire and his grandchildren are embroiled in the plights of some forest gnomes who are searching for the rest of their tribe. While helping them, the millionaire is suspected of being crazy because he's seeing gnomes! He's committed, and the niece and nephew and the gnomes have to find him and free him. (imdb)
Invaders from Mars
Little David MacLean has a problem--all the adults in town begin acting strangely shortly after he sees strange lights settling behind a hill near his home. As more and more adults are affected, he must turn to the pretty Dr. Blake for protection. Eventually, he must confront his fears in the unusual conclusion. (imdb)
The Patsy
When a star comedian dies, his comedy team, decides to train a nobody to fill the shoes of the Star in a big TV show (a Patsy). But the man they choose, bellboy Stanley Belt, cant do anything right. The big TV show is getting closer, and Stanley gets worse all the time. (imdb)
The Last Hurrah
An aging politician (Spencer Tracy) tries to get re-elected one last time in the changing world of the 1950s when TV started to play a bigger part in politics. Based loosely on the career of multi-term Boston Mayor James Michael Curley, this film examines the good and evil inherent in politics and all the things that go into an election. Tracy's uphill battle to stay in office is set against the political machinery that preyed on ethnic hatred and old-time money. (imdb)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
In Egypt Peter and Freddie find the archaeologist Dr. Zoomer murdered before they can return to America. A medallion leads them to a crypt where a revived mummy provides the terror. (imdb)
Designing Woman
On a vacation, sports journalist Mike meets designer Marilla. They fall in love and marry right away. However back at home they realize that they're living in different worlds and know nothing about each other and exes and angry mobsters get in the way of their happily ever after though. Written by Tom Zoerner {Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de}
A Summer Place
A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples. (imdb)
Decision at Sundown
Bart Allison arrives in Sundown planning to kill Tate Kimbrough. Three years earlier he believed Kimbrough was responsible for the death of his wife. He finds Kimbrough and warns him he is going to kill him but gets pinned down in the livery stable by Kimbrough's stooge the Sheriff Sam is shot in the back after being told he could leave safely. Some of the townsmen change sides and disarm the Sheriff's men forcing him to face Allison alone... (imdb)
The Proud Ones
Marshal Silver is run out of town under suspicion of being a trigger-happy killer after shooting a hired gun of Honest John Barrett. A placid life in a new town is interrupted by the reappearance of Barrett, old enemies and the son of the hired gun from years ago, Anderson. (imdb)
Shield for Murder
A vicious cop (Edmond O'Brien) kills a drug runner and steals $25,000 from the corpse. He then frames everyone in sight in order to keep to the money to buy a model home for his tarty girl friend. Copying "Kiss of Death," he even flings a man down a flight of stairs. (imdb)
Critic\
Bob Hope is a New York theater critic and his wife (Lucille Ball in their final motion picture pairing) writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Hope must either get out of reviewing the play or cause the breakup of his marriage. Based on the Broadway play by Ira Levin. (imdb)
Dear Heart
Single and alone, Evie arrives in New York for the annual Postmasters' convention. Staying at her hotel is a womanising salesman newly promoted to his marketing department and trying to adjust to having become engaged. When his path crosses Evie's, she wonders if this is finally the man for her, while her ways just seem to annoy him. At least to start with. (imdb)
Enter Laughing
A young would-be actor seeks his first break. (imdb)
The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
In early 1900s' Pennsylvania, Mr. Pennypacker has two company offices and two families with a combined total of 17 children. With an office in Harrisburg and an office in Philadelphia, he has successfully kept two separate homes. However, when an emergency requires his oldest son to find him, Mr. Pennypacker's dual life is revealed. (imdb)
Don\
A man is mistaken by foreign agents for a defecting cosmonaut and must prove his identity while evading capture. (imdb)
Francis in the Haunted House
On a gloomy night outside the old MacLeod castle, Francis, a talking mule, witnesses the castle's curator, Mr. Jason, and handyman Hugo murder lawyer Roger Andrews. Much wackiness ensues (TCM)
The Kettles in the Ozarks
Ma and the kids head back to the Ozarks for a visit with Uncle Sedge (essentially a Pa Kettle replacement). He's working his way through a twenty years long relationship with Miss Bedelia Baines. (imdb)
The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
The Bower Family Band petitions the Democratic National Committee to sing a Grover Cleveland rally song at the 1888 convention, but decide instead to move to the Dakota territory on the urging of a suitor to their eldest daughter. There, Grampa Bower causes trouble with his pro-Cleveland ideas, as Dakota residents are overwhelmingly Republican, and hope to get the territory admitted as two states (North and South Dakota) rather than one in order to send four Republican senators to Washington. (imdb)
Rabbit Test
Lionel's life turns around after a one-night stand on top of a pinball table... he becomes the world's first pregnant man! (imdb)
The King\
Handsome British officer, Lt. Brian FLEMING is sent undercover to infiltrate a lively band of pirates. Lt. Brain soon finds himself involved with the Captain's girlfriend. Then Lt. FLEMING finds himself having to work quickly and smartly to capture a band of thieves. (imdb)
The Power and the Prize
Based on a novel by Howard Swiggert, The Power and the Prize sets up a premise that had far more relevance in 1956 than it does today. Robert Taylor stars as a American business executive working in England. Taylor wants to marry European refugee Elizabeth Mueller, but is warned by his boss (Burl Ives) that such things just aren't done. Taylor digs in his heels, and at the end is supported in his marital decision by his less hidebound fellow executives. (allrovi.com)
The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood
Xaviera goes to Hollywood with the idea of making a movie based on her famous book. However, she is stymied in her efforts by several producers who have other ideas. (Ebay)
The Scarlet Hour
Carol Ohmart and Tom Tryon star as Paulie and Marsh, respectively the film's villainess and protagonist. Knowing that Marsh is hopelessly in love with her, Paulie uses him as a dupe in an upcoming jewelry heist. Only after a killing has occurred does Marsh come to his senses. Jody Lawrance, whose previous career as a Columbia contract player had led nowhere, is "introduced" as the good girl to whom Marsh eventually retreats. (allrovi.com)
Affair in Reno
A female detective falls in love with a public relations man. (imdb)
Lay That Rifle Down
In this musical comedy, a young woman endures the drudgery of working as a charwoman in her aunt's hotel. She is not paid much for her hard work. To make her drab existence a little more exciting, she enrolls in a correspondence charm course, which unbeknownst to her is a scam. Soon the swindlers show up and plan to use her to help them con her aunt and a bank president out of their money. (allmovie.com)
Leave It to Beaver
The Cleavers are the 1950's 'All-American Family' in this 'feel-good' family sitcom. Parents Ward and June, and older brother Wally, try to keep Theodore ('the Beaver') out of trouble. However, Beaver continues to end up in one kind of jam or another. Unlike real life, these situations are always easily resolved to the satisfaction of all involved and the Beaver gets off with a few stern moralistic words of parental advice. Instigator and troublemaker Eddie Haskell is an older kid who always man
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The misadventures of a TV writer both at work and at home. Rob, Buddy and Sally write for the Alan Brady TV show under the thumb of Brady's brother-in-law Mel. Rob and Laura live in new Rochelle next-door to Jerry and Millie.
Still the Beaver
Reunites most of the members of the Cleaver clan, Wally, June, and of course, the Beaver. Their father Ward has passed away. Wally's married to Mary Ellen and a successful lawyer and has everything to make his life complete except for a child. The Beaver is married but unfortunately is still the same which is why his wife threw him out. With nowhere else to go, he goes home. And he also decides that he wants to raise his children, in his hometown of Mayfield. His wife, who decides that she hasn'
Date with the Angels
New bride Vickie and her insurance salesman husband Gus involve their friends and neighbors in a variety of comic episodes.
No Man\
Elliot, a rare California condor, must find a hideaway for endangered animals before man drives them over the brink into extinction. (imdb)
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