This weekend, news of the death of Orson Bean, an actor in numerous American films and series, was celebrated at the age of 91. His death occurred on Friday, February 7, after being hit by a car. The performer was born on July 22, 1928 in Burlington, Vermont, USA, and began performing on stage as a magician, for the 1950s to move to stand-up comedy.
Orson Bean was born the Dallas Frederick Burrows name in 1928.
His participations began to grow more and more, and he ended up being ‘regular’ of shows such as ‘The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ and ‘The Tonight Shows’. He also became on Broadway and was nominated for a Tony Award for the musical ‘Subways are for Sleeping’. Beyond his stint in the charts, the audience remembers him more than anything for his television roles in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1976), ‘Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman’ (1990), ‘Normal, Ohio’ (2000) and ‘Desperate Housewives’, among other strips.
He was also in films such as ‘Being John Malkovich’ (1999). The accident that took his life occurred on Friday night, when Bean was crossing a street in the Venice neighborhood. There he was grazed and shot down by a car, then hit by a second vehicle, police officer Drake Madison reported. Both drivers remained at the scene and investigations conclude that this was an accident.
