RIP - Actor-comedian Orson Bean, 91, hit and killed by car in LA

[Laura PourMeADrink]

https://news.yahoo.com/actor-comedian-orson-bean-91-114135652.html

Dallas Frederick Burrows, he never lost the Yankee accent that proved a perfect complement to the dry, laconic storytelling that established him as popular humorist. He had picked the stage name Orson Bean “because it sounded funny.”

His father, George, was a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union and Bean recalled later that his “house was filled with causes.”

[hopeforchange2008]

1. I loved seeing him in Grace and Frankie recently.

He was a hoot!

[Siwsan]

2. I just finished reading about this on another source. Absolutely heartbreaking

He lived a good life, and deserved a more gentle end.

[RobertDevereaux]

3. Fascinating life...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Bean

[50 Shades Of Blue]

4. How awful. Condolences to his family.

I was shocked when I learned his daughter was married to Andrew Breitbart...

[Laura PourMeADrink]

7. Ironic since born in Burlington VT and his dad founding father ACLU

[suegeo]

5. Andrew Breitbart is still dead!

Breitbart was a nazi.

[Greybnk48]

6. Brietbart's father-in-law.

I assumed he went hard right in his old age, contrary to his dad.

[tishaLA]

8. He did.

"Meanwhile, his politics turned more conservative. He became related to a leading rightwing commentator, Andrew Breitbart, when his daughter, Susannah, married him. Breitbart died in 2012 and Steve Bannon, later a top adviser to Donald Trump, took over Breitbart’s eponymous website, for which Bean had penned occasional columns."

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/feb/08/orson-bean-actor-car-los-angeles

[Greybnk48]

13. What a shame. n/t

[milestogo]

9. I remember him.

Funny guy.

[LakeArenal]

10. He was witty. I learned what that meant from him.

[Awsi Dooger]

11. Oh no...even if I assumed he was already dead

I don't think he would mind that comment

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

12. This week... Glad I'm not a celebrity.

Sad to hear. He seemed to be a good sort.