Orson Bean was Andrew Breitbart’s father in law.<\/p>\n
If you were a TV viewer in the 1960s, you couldn’t\u00a0 not know his name, face and voice.\u00a0\u00a0 He was everywhere on TV as a panelist on TV game shows like To Tell the Truth, Match Game, $25,000 pyramid, Password, What’s my Line, etc…\u00a0 Current TV viewers probably know him as Roy Bender on Desperate Housewives.<\/p>\n
Synapses immediately fired off when I read that he was Breitbart’s father in law.\u00a0\u00a0 I had a faint memory that Orson Bean was a major leftist in his youth, which turns out to be correct.\u00a0 Orson Bean was one of the people blacklisted in Hollywood in the 1950s for being pro-union and attending Communist organizing meetings.<\/p>\n
Here is a bit more to fill in the gaps:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.thedqtimes.com\/pages\/castpages\/other\/orsonbeanblacklistinterview.htm<\/p>\n
(DQ Times is a fan site of the TV show Dr Quinn, which Orson Bean acted in)<\/p>\n
Orson Bean’s real name is Dallas Frederick Burroughs – he was born in Burlington Vermont, and his father would go on to be head of security at Harvard University.\u00a0\u00a0 He took up the stage name of Orson Bean, borrowing the Orson from Orson Welles.<\/p>\n
Orson Bean had been writing occasional items on Breitbart’s Big Hollywood web site, and it’s well worth reading:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/bighollywood.breitbart.com\/author\/obean\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Orson Bean was Andrew Breitbart’s father in law. If you were a TV viewer in the 1960s, you couldn’t\u00a0 not know his name, face and voice.\u00a0\u00a0 He was everywhere on TV as a panelist on TV game shows like To … Continue reading