";s:4:"text";s:2915:" Bean who appeared in Miracle on 34th street, Murder She Wrote and Desperate Housewives in his long-spanning career died after being struck by two separate cars. We lost a member of the Breitbart family last night, legendary actor-comedian Orson Bean — father-in-law of the late Andrew Breitbart. Bean was reportedly struck by a vehicle while crossing a street in the city’s beachfront neighborhood of Venice, FOX 11 of Los Angeles reported. Orson Bean passed away on February 7, 2020 at the age of 91. 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." The actor was hit while out walking between Venice Boulevard and Shell Avenue on Friday in Los Angeles. Orson Bean, the witty actor and comedian who enlivened the game show “To Tell the Truth” and played a crotchety merchant on “Dr. Orson Bean was so sweet. Below is an Associated Press wire on Bean’s life and his iconic career. Following reports of Bean’s death in Los Angeles, tributes began to pour in from prominent figures across the political spectrum, including Barbra Streisand, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larry Edler, and Ann Coulter. In his last interview with the celebrated actor, Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow said that the news company that Andrew built would not have been possible without Orson Bean. Actor Orson Bean, local theater mainstay who rose to fame as a 1950s TV personality, dies. Orson Bean died in Los Angeles on Friday after being struck and killed by a car in Los Angeles.