ACTOR

Orson Bean

1928 - 2020

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Orson Bean (born Dallas Frederick Burrows; July 22, 1928 – February 7, 2020) was an American film, television, and stage actor and comedian. He was a game show and talk show host and a "mainstay of Los Angeles’ small theater scene." He appeared frequently on several televised game shows from the 1960s through the 1980s and was a longtime panelist on the television game show To Tell the Truth. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Orson Bean has received more than 4,347,429 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Orson Bean is the 2,365th most popular actor (down from 1,935th in 2019), the 3,760th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,214th in 2019) and the 1,085th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Orson Bean ranks 2,365 out of 13,578. Before him are Tom Holland, Lloyd Bacon, Patricia Bredin, Hank Azaria, Alexander Kaidanovsky, and Behrouz Vossoughi. After him are Jerry Springer, Savely Kramarov, Antonio Aguilar, Elisha Cuthbert, Cheng Pei-pei, and Madeleine Lebeau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Orson Bean ranks 243. Before him are Franciszek Pieczka, Horace Silver, William Berger, Kevin Hagen, Pierre Étaix, and Vincent Gigante. After him are Hans Herrmann, Abdellatif Filali, Steingrímur Hermannsson, Nicolas Roeg, Yevgeny Svetlanov, and Alan Sillitoe. Among people deceased in 2020, Orson Bean ranks 216. Before him are Alfred Worden, Pierino Prati, Silvio Marzolini, Daria Nicolodi, Mad Mike Hoare, and Lee Konitz. After him are McCoy Tyner, Milton Glaser, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Robert Shavlakadze, Marian Jaworski, and Ernesto Brambilla.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Orson Bean ranks 3,760 out of 20,380. Before him are Edwin Drake (1819), Hank Azaria (1964), Bill W. (1895), SZA (1990), Bret Easton Ellis (1964), and Laura Bridgman (1829). After him are Lori Lightfoot (1962), Golden State Killer (1945), Albert Sidney Johnston (1803), David Foster Wallace (1962), Bix Beiderbecke (1903), and Tiger Woods (1975).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Orson Bean ranks 1,085. Before him are Elizabeth Banks (1974), Peggy Lipton (1946), Tuesday Weld (1943), William Baldwin (1963), Lloyd Bacon (1889), and Hank Azaria (1964). After him are Dean Jones (1931), Sarah Paulson (1974), Robert Foxworth (1941), Michael Richards (1949), Darlene Conley (1934), and Ken Jenkins (1940).

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