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Frederick "Fred" Rutherford is a fictional character in the television sitcom Leave It to Beaver. The show aired October 4, 1957 to June 20, 1963. The show aired October 4, 1957 to June 20, 1963. Fred is portrayed by Richard Deacon .
Richard Lewis Deacon (May 14, 1922 [2] [3] – August 8, 1984) was an American television and motion picture actor, [4] best known for playing supporting roles in television shows such as The Dick Van Dyke Show, [5] Leave It to Beaver, [6] and The Jack Benny Program, [7] along with minor roles in films such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) [8] and Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963).
Guests: Richard Deacon as Fred Rutherford, Frank Bank as Clarence "Lumpy" Rutherford, Helen Parrish as Geraldine Rutherford. In future episodes, "Geraldine" would become "Gwendolyn". This is the last time in the series that Hugh Beaumont's voice-over sets up the story at the beginning of the episode.
Its reception led to a new first-run, made-for-cable series, The New Leave It to Beaver (1984–1989), with Beaver and Lumpy Rutherford running Ward's old firm (where Lumpy's pompous, demanding father — played by Richard Deacon in the original series — had been the senior partner), Wally as a practicing attorney and expectant father, June ...
Richard Deacon as Fred Rutherford, the Beaver's new employer reprising his role as Ward Cleaver's co-worker in the original series; Ed Begley Jr. as Hubert "Whitey" Whitney, the Beaver's childhood friend in the original series, Whitey was played by Stanley Fafara; Corey Feldman as Corey Cleaver, the Beaver's older son
Moving back in with his mother, he finds a new job with his late father's former co-worker, Fred Rutherford. Meanwhile, Wally and his wife are struggling to start their own family amidst fertility ...
Diane Brewster appears as Miss Simms, a secretary, with Richard Deacon as Mr. Baxter, Miss Simms' boss. Brewster and Deacon would find roles in the series as Miss Canfield, Beaver's second grade teacher, and Fred Rutherford, Ward's co-worker and father of "Lumpy," Eddie Haskell's easily duped henchman/bully.
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