He played the title character in the 1960 Twilight Zone episode "Mr. He hosted a pilot for a revival of Concentration in 1985 which was picked up later on as Classic Concentration with Alex Trebek in 1987. Bean appeared on Super Password and Match Game among other game shows. Apparently no one knew his real name was Burrows as Kitty Carlisle humorously admitted in her questioning. On Jhis father appeared as a subject of the panel he had to disqualify himself from participating. He was a regular panelists on To Tell the Truth in versions from the late 1950s through 1991. Bean was a frequent guest on The Tonight Show (with both Jack Paar and Johnny Carson) and appeared on game shows originating in New York. His vocal mannerisms were ideal for the mock-serious tone of the show and he became the show's master of ceremonies ("Dr. In 1952, Bean made a guest appearance on NBC Radio's weekly hot-jazz series The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street. Given his success on that occasion, Bean decided to keep using the odd-sounding but memorable name. On another night, however, the musician suggested "Orson Bean" and the comedian received a great response from the audience, a reaction so favorable that it resulted in a job offer that same evening from a local theatrical booking agent. One night, for example, the piano player suggest "Roger Duck" but the young comedian got very few laughs after using that name in his performance. He credited its origin to a piano player named Val at " Hurley's Log Cabin", a restaurant and nightclub in Boston, Massachusetts, where he had once performed according to Bean, every evening before he went on stage at the nightclub, Val would suggest to him a silly name to use when introducing himself to the audience. In an interview on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1974, Bean recounted the source of his new name. It was during that time when he stopped using his birth name professionally and adopted the stage name Orson Bean. While stationed in post-war Japan, he developed and refined a magic act during his off-duty hours.įollowing his military service, Dallas began working in small venues as a stage magician before transitioning in the early 1950s to stand-up comedy. Dallas graduated from the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School and between 1946 and the end of 1947, he served 18 months in the United States Army. Among his other relatives is Calvin Coolidge, who was president of the United States at the time of his birth and was his first cousin twice removed. His father was a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) a fund-raiser for the Scottsboro Boys' defense and a 20-year member of the campus police of Harvard College. As mentioned above, Orson Bean was born Dallas Frederick Burrows in Burlington, Vermont the son of Marian Ainsworth (nee Pollard) and George Frederick Burrows.
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