Orson Bean (born Dallas Frederick Burrows; July , â€" February , )
was a veteran American film, television, and stage actor, and a
comedian, writer, and producer. He was a game show and talk show host
and a "mainstay of Los Angeles’s small theater scene." He appeared
frequently on several televised game shows from the s through the s
and was a long-time 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 over times.Bean became one of
the first "neocelebrities" in television â€" someone who was "famous
for being famous."Orson Bean was born in Burlington, Vermont in ,
while his third cousin twice removed, Calvin Coolidge, was President
of the United States. Bean was the son of Marian Ainsworth (née
Pollard) and George Frederick Burrows. His father was a founding
member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a fund-raiser for
the Scottsboro Boys' defense, and a -year member of the campus police
of Harvard College. Bean said his house was "full of causes". He left
home at after his mother committed suicide.
was a veteran American film, television, and stage actor, and a
comedian, writer, and producer. He was a game show and talk show host
and a "mainstay of Los Angeles’s small theater scene." He appeared
frequently on several televised game shows from the s through the s
and was a long-time 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 over times.Bean became one of
the first "neocelebrities" in television â€" someone who was "famous
for being famous."Orson Bean was born in Burlington, Vermont in ,
while his third cousin twice removed, Calvin Coolidge, was President
of the United States. Bean was the son of Marian Ainsworth (née
Pollard) and George Frederick Burrows. His father was a founding
member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a fund-raiser for
the Scottsboro Boys' defense, and a -year member of the campus police
of Harvard College. Bean said his house was "full of causes". He left
home at after his mother committed suicide.
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