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Profile of Orson Bean
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Orson Bean |
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22nd July 1928 |
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Burlington, Vermont, USA |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Orson Bean, born Dallas Frederick Burroughs (July 22, 1928 in Burlington, Vermont), is an American film actor.
Bean is a second cousin to former President of the United States Calvin Coolidge. He is best known as a long-time panelist on the television game show To Tell The Truth.
He was one of those actors who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s.
On one To Tell The Truth episode in 1965, the panel was to try to guess which of three contestants was the real Harvard University Chief of Police... one George Burroughs, Orson's father. The happily stunned Orson disqualified himself from the questioning.
Two of his significant credits were playing the main characters Bilbo and Frodo Baggins in the 1977 and 1980 Rankin/Bass animated adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, and The Return of the King.
Orson Bean has been happily married to much-younger actress Alley Mills since 1993.
Selected filmography
- Being John Malkovich (1999)
- Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993)
- Innerspace (1987)
- The Hobbit (1977)
- The Return of the King (1980)
Books
- Me and the Orgone (1971) ISBN 0967967015
- Too Much Is Not Enough (1988) ISBN 0818404655
- 25 Ways to Cook a Mouse for the Gourmet Cat (1994) ISBN 1559721995
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