

His wife is best known for her performance as the mother on TV’s “ The Wonder Years. Carolyn Maxwell is known for Black Mirror (1981), Gas (1981) and Les chiens chauds (1980).
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His last movie part was in “The Equalizer 2” in 2018. On Broadway, Bean was in the original cast of “Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?” in the 1950s, and received a Tony Award nomination in 1961 for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for “Subways Are for Sleeping.” Orson Bean’s full name is Dallas Frederick Burrows and his nickname is Orson Bean. He was pronounced dead at the scene in front of the Pacific Resident Theatre, where he and his wife, actress Allison “Alley” Mills, were company members, according to CNN affiliate KABC.īean was a frequent participant on quiz shows like “To Tell the Truth,” “Super Password” and “Match Game.” He made guest appearances on shows from “The Twilight Zone” to “ Grace and Frankie.” He had regular roles on “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman” and “Dr. Years before Orson’s birth, his father had also served. His father worked in the Vermont police and later served as the chief of the campus police at ‘Harvard University.’. Orson Bean, a familiar face on TV game shows and series from Hollywood’s Golden Age to Netflix, was fatally struck by a car Friday evening while walking across a busy boulevard in Los Angeles, police said.īean, 91, was walking off the crosswalk when he was struck by a vehicle and fell, then was struck by a second vehicle, police said. Orson Bean was born Dallas Frederick Burrows, on July 22, 1928, in Burlington, Vermont, U.S., into the upper-middle-class family of George Burrows and Marian Ainsworth.
