Known For: American actor (1928–2020)
Category: Actors
Occupation: autobiographer, stage actor, film actor, television actor, voice actor
Country: United States of America
City: Burlington
Date of Birth: Sunday, 22 July 1928
Died: 2020-02-07 00:00:00 in Q773853
Orson Bean was an American film, television, and stage actor. 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.
| BirthPlace | Burlington |
| Education | Q5025512, Q5629067 |
| Awards | Q1131356, Q1813995 |
| Spouses | Alley Mills, Carolyn Maxwell, Rain Winslow |
| Children | Susannah Bean |
| Wikipedia | Orson_Bean |
Bean was born in Burlington, Vermont, in 1928, while his first 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 20-year member of the campus police of Harvard College. Bean said his house was "full of causes". He left home at 16 after his mother died by suicide. Bean graduated from Rindge Technical High School in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1946. He then joined the United States Army and was stationed in Japan for a year. Following his military service, Bean began working in small venues as a stage magician before moving in the early 1950s to stand-up comedy. He studied theatre at HB Studio.
