Orson Bean
Acting
Biography
Orson Bean (born Dallas Frederick Burrows; July 22, 1928 – February 7, 2020) was an American film, television, and stage actor, as well as a comedian, writer, and producer. He appeared frequently on televised game shows from the 1960s through the 1980s and was a longtime panelist on the television game show To Tell the Truth.
On February 7, 2020, while walking near Venice Boulevard and Shell Avenue, in Venice, California, Bean was struck by two cars, with the second striking him fatally. He was 91.
As actor 102
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Modern Family
2009
Desperate Housewives
2004
Two and a Half Men
2003
The Love Boat
1977
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
How I Met Your Mother
2005
The Closer
2005
The King of Queens
1998
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Cold Case
2003
The Facts of Life
1979
Diagnosis: Murder
1993
The Twilight Zone
1959
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Hot in Cleveland
2010
Love, American Style
1969
Ellen
1994
What's My Line?
1950
Superstore
2015
Will & Grace
1998
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
1993
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
Studio One
1948
Naked City
1958
I've Got a Secret
1952
Grace and Frankie
2015
Vicki!
1992
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
Becker
1998
Dinah!
1974
7th Heaven
1996
Kraft Television Theatre
1947
Family Law
1999
Reading Rainbow
1983
Omnibus
1952
The Millionaire
1955
Ally McBeal
1997
Tiny Toon Adventures
1990
Monsters
1988
The Sarah Silverman Program.
2007
Teachers
2016
The Phil Silvers Show
1955
Commander in Chief
2005
The Equalizer 2
2018
Another Period
2015
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
Ellery Queen
1975
NET Playhouse
1966
Vacation Playhouse
1963
Anatomy of a Murder
1959
Being John Malkovich
1999
Women's Murder Club
2007
Jacob's Ladder
1990
The Hobbit
1977
Forever Fernwood
1977
Innerspace
1987
Normal, Ohio
2000
The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman
2006
The Return of the King
1980
Frank McKlusky, C.I.
2002
Alien Autopsy
2006
Yesterday's Dreams
2005
Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels
2004
Chance of a Lifetime
1991
Where's Charley?
1957
The Blue Angel
1954
D-Minus
2011
How to Be Very, Very Popular
1955
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
2019
Two-Legged Rat Bastards
2011
Sleep Cycle
2014
The Star Wagon
1966
Twinky
1970
Final Judgement
1992
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
2021
Game of Life
2007
Soccer Dog 2: European Cup
2004
Just My Imagination
1992
Skateboard
1978
A Golden Christmas 3
2012
Burning Down the House
2001
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
2022
Garfield in the Rough
1984
Instant Karma
1990
Crossroads
2006
Knee High P.I.
2003
Mattie Fresno and the Holoflux Universe
2007
Forty Deuce
1982
Showdown at Ulcer Gulch
1956
Hating Breitbart
2012
The Gristle
2004
Two by Saroyan: 'Once Around the Block' and 'My Heart's in the Highlands'
1960
Miracle On 34th Street
1959
Smart Alec
1986
Ashley's Ashes
2010
UnBowed
1999
The Spy Who Returned from the Dead
1974
Mr. Bevis
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1970