Orson Bean
American actor
Died when: 91 years 200 days (1098 months)Star Sign: Leo
Orson Bean (born Dallas Frederick Burrows;July 22, 1928 – February 7, 2020) was an American film, television, and stage actor, comedian, writer, and producer.
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.
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