After his show business debut in New York as a stand up comic, Orson Bean headed for Broadway and won a Theatre World Award for his role in Almanac and a Tony nomination for Subways Are for Sleeping. He went on to roles in such feature films as Inner Space, Love Sick, 40 Deuce, Lola, and Anatomy of a Murder. He had a recurring role in the television series The Facts of Life and also starred in the television films Girl in the Song Title, and A Change of Heart. He has guest starred in the television series Murder, She Wrote, on the CBS Television Network, and The Fall Guy.

Orson is also well known to television audiences for his numerous appearances on such game shows as To Tell the Truth and I've Got a Secret, as well as for his more than 200 guest and guest-host stints on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. He is the author of the books Me and the Orgone and Too Much Is Not Enough, and a humorous cat-lover's book, 25 Ways to Cook a Mouse (For the Gourmet Cat).

He was born in Burlington, Vermont, and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is part of the L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award-winning Pacific Resident Theatre Ensemble in Venice. Bean has starred in Ensemble productions of such plays as A Christmas Carol and The Playboy of the Western World. His birth date is July 22.

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