Orson Bean | |
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Bean in 1965 | |
Born | Dallas Frederick Burrows July 22, 1928 Burlington, Vermont, U.S. |
Died | February 7, 2020 Los Angeles, California, U.S. | (aged 91)
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Years active | 1952–2020 |
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Children | 4 |
Orson Bean (born Dallas Frederick Burrows; July 22, 1928 – February 7, 2020) was an American film, television, and stage actor. He was a game show and talk show host[1][2][3][4][5] and a "mainstay of Los Angeles’ small theater scene."[2] He appeared frequently on several televised game shows from the 1960s through the 1980s and was a longtime panelist on the television game show To Tell the Truth.[2] "A storyteller par excellence",[4] he was a favorite of Johnny Carson, appearing on The Tonight Show more than 200 times.[6]
In the 1960s, Bean remarked in an interview that he became known as a "neocelebrity who's famous for being famous" for his appearances as a panellist on television prime-time gameshows.[2]
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