page_title: Orson Bean
hierarchical_section_title: Orson Bean
caption_attribution_description: Photo of Orson Bean as Mr. Bevis and William Schallert as the policeman from the Twilight Zone episode "Mr. Bevis".
context_page_description: Orson Bean 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."
context_section_description: 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."
caption: William Schallert and Orson Bean in "Mr. Bevis", a 1960 episode of
  The Twilight Zone
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