[1][2] Deacon was chosen for the part out of a field of 900 actors screen tested by producer John Heyman.
[3] Deacon has also portrayed Heumac in The Feathered Serpent (1976, 1978), Frank Miles in the 1978 TV series Lillie, and appeared with his brother, Eric, in the Peter Greenaway film, A Zed & Two Noughts (1985), as Oswald Deuce.
Neil Kincaid in British soap opera Emmerdale, the lover of established character Kim Tate (Claire King).
[6] He has been married twice, firstly to Rula Lenska (1977-1987), with whom he had a daughter, Lara Parker Deacon.
[7] In 1998 he married the French actress and producer Nathalie Bloch-Lainé.