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Actor Born: July 22, 1928 in Burlington, VT Biography:"My name is Orson Bean. Harvard '47, Yale Nothing." Actually, that oft-repeated introduction is a double deception: actor Orson Bean didn't go to Harvard, and his name isn't really Orson Bean. As a boy magician, Dallas Frederick Burrows borrowed the first half of his stage name from another prestidigitator of note, Orson Welles. Bean made his legitimate stage bow in 1945, then worked up a nightclub comedy act which premiered in New York at the now-defunct Blue Angel (in 1954, he hosted a summer-replacement TV series emanating from this celebrated nightspot). Landing on Broadway in the 1953 production "Men of Distinction", Bean won a Theatre World Award for his work in the 1954 revue "John Murray Anderson's Almanac", and Critics' Circle Awards for his performances in "Mister Roberts" and Say Darling. His later stage credits included Broadway's Subways are for Sleeping (1962) and "Never too Late" (1964)... Full Biography
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