# Orson Bean

orson bean (born Dallas Frederick Burrows; July 22, 1928 – February 7, 2020) 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 1960s through the 1980s 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 200 times.Bean became one of the first "neocelebrities" in television — someone who was "famous for being famous." == Early life == orson bean was born in Burlington, Vermont in 1928, while his third cousin twice removed, Calvin Coolidge, was President of the United States.