Orson Bean (July 22, 1928 - February 7, 2020) was an American actor.
Among Bean's best known roles are Toby Marshall from How to Be Very, Very Popular, William Sawyer from Miracle on 34th Street, Hank Morgan from the 1970 version of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Bilbo and Frodo Baggins from the Rankin/Bass adaptations of The Lord of the Rings, Loren Bray from Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Dr. Lester from Being John Malkovich, Bill Gamble Sr. from Normal, Ohio and Roy Bender from Desperate Housewives.
Bean regularly appeared in talk shows, including the Jack Paar and Johnny Carson versions of The Tonight Show, as well as on shows with Ed Sullivan, Jackie Gleason, David Frost, Mike Douglas, Merv Griffin and Alan Thicke. As a game show panelist, he is best known for appearing in To Tell the Truth. His other game show credentials include What's My Line?, I've Got a Secret, Match Game, Tattletales, Pyramid, Super Password and Body Language. He hosted for a 1963 episode of To Tell the Truth and the 1985 pilot remake of Concentration; the latter became Classic Concentration, which was hosted by Alex Trebek.