Orson Bean is an American film, television, and stage actor. He appeared frequently on televised game shows in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, including being a long-time panelist on the television game show To Tell the Truth.
Susannah Bean, Max Bean, Michele Bean, Ezekiel Bean
Parents
Marian Ainsworth, George Frederick Burrows
Nicknames
Dallas Frederick Burroughs , Dr. Orson Bea , Dallas Frederick Burrows
Nominations
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical
Movies
Being John Malkovich, Anatomy of a Murder, The Hobbit, Innerspace, Alien Autopsy, Frank McKlusky, C.I., Forty Deuce, The Return of the King, Soccer Dog: European Cup, Chance of a Lifetime, Garfield in the Rough, The Lather Effect, Instant Karma, Safe Harbor, The Star Wagon, Lola, Two-Legged Rat Bast...
TV Shows
Normal, Ohio, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, I've Got a Secret, Make Me Laugh (original), The Blue Angel, Forever Fernwood
Star Sign
Cancer
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Quote
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[referring to one of the world's deadliest snakes] The Gaboon Viper, so named because it bites you on the gaboon.
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[on his pierced left ear] I say it's for purposes self-adornment. That's all. And, you know, we are the only species in life where the male is less grand than the female. [The Tonight Show, May 25, 1978]
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[on his pierced left ear] What the hell? I think, you know, if a pirate can wear an earring, why can't I wear an earring? Why should we be the only male of a species that isn't into adornment? [The Tonight Show, Feb. 5, 1976]
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The trap is man's armored character structure and there's only one way out of it. It's not drugs and it's not religion and it's not politics. It's going back to the old apple tree and trying to do better than Adam and Eve did.
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Fact
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"My best friend, greatest support system, and incredible grandfather has posted his entire award winning one man show on YouTube for the world to see for free. He had an offer to bring the show to NY but instead decided he just wanted to spread joy for all to be able to see (and laugh, and cry etc). That speaks more about his character than anything I could write here. In summary: do yourself a favor and watch this.".
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Frequent contributor to "Big Hollywood", which was the original blog created by his late son-in-law, Andrew Breitbart. "Big Hollywood" has become one of many subsections of Breitbart.com.
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He studied drama at HB Studios in Greenwich Village in New York City.
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Father-in-law of Andrew Breitbart. His wife is Susannah (Susie) Bean.
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On one To Tell the Truth (1956) episode in 1965, the panel was to try to guess which of three contestants was the police chief of Harvard University. The happily stunned Bean disqualified himself from the questioning as it was his own father.
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Was the founder of the arts-oriented 15th Street School of New York.
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Though blacklisted for his outspoken liberal views in the early 1950s, he had become an ardent supporter of Richard Nixon during the 1968 Presidential election year. Nixon had been a notorious "Red-Baiter" in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s.
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Bean made frequent guest appearances on "The Tonight Show" (with both Jack Paar and Johnny Carson).
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Was nominated for Broadway's 1962 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Musical) for "Subways Are for Sleeping."
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Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith. pg. 38. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387