Orson Bean
Orson Bean | |
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Bean in 1965 | |
| Born | Dallas Frederick Burrows July 22, 1928 Burlington, Vermont, U.S. |
| Died | February 7, 2020 (aged 91) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1952–2020 |
| Spouses | Jacqueline de Sibour
(m. 1956; div. 1962)Carolyn Maxwell
(m. 1965; div. 1981) |
| Children | 4 |
Orson Bean (born Dallas Frederick Burrows; July 22, 1928 – February 7, 2020) was an American film, television, and stage actor and comedian. He was a game show and talk show host and a "mainstay of Los Angeles’ small theater scene." 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. "A storyteller par excellence", he was a favorite of Johnny Carson, appearing on The Tonight Show more than 200 times.
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.