Orson BeanFilmography

Born:: July 22, 1928 in Burlington, VT
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: "My name is Orson Bean. Harvard '47, Yale Nothing." Actually, that oft-repeated introduction is a double deception: actor Orson Bean didn't go to Harvard, and his name isn't really Orson Bean. As a boy magician, Dallas Frederick Burrows borrowed the first half of his stage name from another...Read More

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Alien Autopsy

Actors: Ant McPartlin, Declan Donnelly, Bill Pullman, Götz Otto, Morwenna Banks

Synopsis: Director Jonny Campbell teams with screenwriter William Davies for this satirical look at the notorious, purportedly genuine "Alien Autopsy" video that fascinated viewers worldwide before being exposed as an elaborately staged hoax in 1995. Aired in America by the Fox network, the Alien Autopsy Read More

4/14/06
Crossroads

Actors: Jacob Pitts, Amy Acker, Alan Arkin, Frank Langella, Orson Bean

Synopsis: A frustrated seminary student weighs the prospect of life as a family man against a future in the clergy after meeting a beautiful volunteer while conducting missionary work on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana. Peter (Jacob Pitts) is just two years into his seminary studies when he begins to suspect Read More

2006
The Gristle

Actors: Michael Dorn, Barry Corbin, Orson Bean, Richard Riehle, Carsten Norgaard

Synopsis: David Portlock's darkly comic film about race, The Gristle, concerns a pair of struggling medical technicians who get a moonlighting gig to deliver kidneys to a Senator. Complications ensue when a drug deal set to go down in the same place and at the same time leads to the wrong deliveries being Read More

2001
Normal, Ohio [TV Series]

Actors: John Goodman, Joely Fisher, Anita Gillette

2000
Ally McBeal: In Search of Pygmies

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol, Lucy Liu, Portia de Rossi

2000
Being John Malkovich

Actors: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich, Orson Bean, Mary Kay Place

Synopsis: Would you pay money to journey into the mind of the star of Con Air, The Killing Fields, and In The Line of Fire? Puppeteer Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) is having money problems, so he takes a temporary job as a file clerk on the seventh-and-a-half floor of a large office building. One day, while Read More

10/29/99
Unbowed

Actors: Tembe Locke, Jay Tavare, Ron Glass, Edward Albert, Orson Bean

Synopsis: Nanci Rossov directs this cross-cultural drama about captured Native Americans enrolled in a turn of the century "Negro" college. The film opens with Richard (Chuma Hunter-Gault) and Cleola (Tembi Locke) announcing their engagement. Though the college prides itself on its integrationist Read More

1999
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: Season 06

Synopsis: The sixth and final season of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman ushers in two new regulars: Alex Menesas, replacing Michelle Bonilla in the role of Colorado Springs' schoolteacher Theresa Morales; and John Schneider, briefly introduced the previous season as wealthy ex-prospector Daniel Simon, a friend of Read More

1997
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: Season 05

Synopsis: Additions to the cast of characters on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman during the series' fifth year on the air include Katie Sully (played by various female members of the Calabreese family), newborn daughter of Colorado Springs' lady doctor, Michaela "Mike" Quinn (Jane Seymour), and her mountaineer Read More

1996
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: Season 04

Synopsis: Season four of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman welcomes three new cast members to the fold. Jessica Bowman takes over from Erika Flores in the role of Colleen Cooper, foster daughter of Colorado Springs' lady doctor Michaela "Mike" Quinn (Jane Seymour); Jason Leland Adams (who had portrayed General Read More

1995
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: Season 03

Synopsis: There is reason aplenty to celebrate in the course of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman's third season. For one, Dr. Michaela "Mike" Quinn (Jane Seymour) and mountain man Sully (Joe Lando) have become engaged; for another, Colorado Springs finally becomes linked to the transcontinental railroad; and Read More

1994
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: Bad Water

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: Sully (Joe Lando) reluctantly agrees to guide Dr. Mike (Jane Seymour) to the high mountain stream that she believes is the source of mercury poisoning. Despotic mine owner Craig Harding (Michael Cavanaugh) captures Sully and Dr. Mike as trespassers and refuses to allow them to return to Colorado Read More

1993
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: Father's Day

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: Dr. Mike (Jane Seymour) faces the breakup of her adopted family when Ethan Cooper (Ben Murphy), father of Matthew (Chad Allen), Colleen (Erika Flores), and Brian (Shawn Toovey), shows up in Colorado Springs. Promising not to desert the kids again, Ethan fills their heads with fanciful stories of a Read More

1993
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: Great American Medicine Show

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: Dissolute Civil War surgeon Doc Eli (Robert Culp) is now barnstorming with his own "Kickapoo Indian Miracle Elixir" medicine show. At first regarding Eli as a charlatan, Dr. Mike (Jane Seymour) is forced to rely on his long-dormant surgical skills when Myra (Helene Udy) falls victim to an ovarian Read More

1993
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: Running Ghost

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: Sully (Joe Lando) is beaten up by a band of scurrilous buffalo hunters, hired to clear the land on behalf of the incoming railroad. Though paralyzed, Sully vows to wreak vengeance against his attackers and to stem their slaughter of the local bison herds. Meanwhile, a slick con artist, posing as a Read More

1993
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Cowboy's Lullaby

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: John Schneider guest stars as Red McCall, an impoverished cowboy who is reduced to robbing Loren's (Alan Young) store in order to provide for his half-breed baby. Realizing he can no longer care for his child, Red leaves the baby with Dr. Mike (Jane Seymour) -- who, in turn, is unable to find a Read More

1993
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Prisoner

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: After a raid on Black Kettle's Cheyenne settlement, the imperious and sadistic General Custer (Darren Dalton) insists that Dr. Mike (Jane Seymour) treat all of his injured soldiers before even looking at the more seriously wounded Indian prisoners. To make sure that Dr. Mike follows his orders Read More

1993
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: Season 01

Synopsis: The two-hour debut episode of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman stars Jane Seymour as Michaela "Mike" Quinn, one of the few women doctors practicing in the year 1868. Following the death of her father and medical partner, Dr. Mike leaves her hometown of Boston to set up a practice in the wild-and-wooly Read More

1993
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: Portraits

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: Kevin Rogers guest stars as David Watkins, a famed Civil War photographer. As the townsfok argue over who will be include and who will be left out of Watkins' proposed panoramic portrait of Colorado Springs, Dr. Mike (Jane Seymour) comes to realize that the photographer is suffering from diabetes Read More

1993
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: Season 02

Synopsis: Season two of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman introduces a new arrival in the town of Colorado Springs: Dorothy Jennings (Barbara Babcock), sister-in-law of crotchety storekeeper Loren Bray (Orson Bean). Given shelter by Dr. Michaela "Mike" Quinn (Jane Seymour) while escaping the wrath of her abusive Read More

1993
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman [TV Series]

Synopsis: Enjoying astonishing (and well-deserved) popularity at a time in TV history when dramatic programs trafficking in "family values" were few and far between, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman was also one of the last of that hardy breed known as the "TV Western." Set in Colorado Springs, CO, in the years Read More

1993
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Secret

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: Dr. Mike (Jane Seymour) and Sully (Joe Lando) come to the rescue of Zack (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a mentally challenged youth who has suffered ill treatment at the hands of his guardian. The rest of the community shuns Zack, not only because he is "simple-minded," but because he is apparently the Read More

1993
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: Rite of Passage

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: Matthew (Chad Allen) wants to marry Swedish immigrant girl Ingrid (Jennifer Youngs), but Dr. Mike (Jane Seymour) thinks that he is much too young. To prove his adoptive mother wrong, Matthew talks Sully (Joe Lando) into letting him participate in a grueling four-day Cheyenne ritual. Sully agrees Read More

1993
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: Happy Birthday

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: Barber Jake Slicker (Jim Knobeloch) goes off on a drunken binge after accidentally causing a customer to die of blood poisoning through the use of a dirty razor. Since Dr. Mike (Jane Seymour) is the one who leveled the accusation at Jake, it is up to her to get him to pull himself back together. Read More

1993
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Operation

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: While hiking with Sully (Joe Lando), Brian (Shawn Toovey) impulsively jumps out of a tree and sustains what at first seems to be a minor head injury. Already angry at Sully for allowing this to happen, Dr. Mike (Jane Seymour) is beside herself with rage and grief when Brian lapses into a coma. Read More

1993
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: Heroes

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: Her "romantic" experience gleaned from pulp magazines, Colleen (Erika Flores) develops a crush on Sully (Joe Lando) after he saves her life. Colleen then deliberately gets lost in the woods, hoping to be rescued again -- and nearly dies of frostbite. Meanwhile, Hank (William Shockley) foments Read More

1993
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Visitor

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: Jane Wyman guest stars as Elizabeth Quinn, the wealthy Bostonian mother of Dr. Michaela "Mike" Quinn (Jane Seymour). Summoned to Colorado Springs by Sully (Joe Lando), the snobbish Elizabeth makes no secret of her disapproval of her daughter's profession and surroundings. The gap between mother Read More

1993
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: Epidemic

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: No sooner has Dr. Michaela "Mike" Quinn (Jane Seymour) hung up her shingle in Colorado Springs than the community is hit with an influenza epidemic. Using Charlotte's (Diane Ladd) recently foreclosed boarding house as a temporary clinic, Dr. Mike does her best to treat the disease, but the Read More

1993
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Healing

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: Irascible storekeeper Loren Bray (Orson Bean) holds his former son-in-law, Sully (Joe Lando), responsible for the early death of Loren's daughter Abigail. Thus, when he realizes that he still holds the mortgage to Sully's homestead -- now also the home of Dr. Mike (Jane Seymour) -- Loren jumps at Read More

1993
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: Law of the Land

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: Johnny Cash guest stars as Kid Cole, a famous gunslinger who hopes to live a life of peaceful retirement in Colorado Springs. The Kid's dreams are shattered when he is recruited as temporary sheriff. His first assignment: To prevent the outraged townsfolk from lynching Swedish immigrant Jon (Christopher Keene Kelly Read More

1993
Final Judgement

Synopsis: In this drama, a renegade Los Angeles priest, Father Daniel Tyrone, must return to his gang-land roots to prove himself innocent of killing a stripper. His investigation leads him to the seamy underbelly of the pornographic film industry. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Chance of a Lifetime

Synopsis: In this romance, a widowed businesswoman, believing she has an incurable disease begins a series of romantic encounters only to discover that she has been misdiagnosed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1991
Instant Karma

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Chelsea Noble, David Cassidy, Glenn Hirsch, James Gallery, Orson Bean

Synopsis: Craig Sheffer stars as Zane, a TV producer looking for romance. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

4/20/90
Murder, She Wrote: Town Father

Synopsis: Up for re-election as mayor of Cabot Cove, Sam Booth (Richard Paul) figures that his staunch anti-development platform will enable him to easily defeat his pro-development opponent. Unfortunately, Sam's campaign is seriously compromised when a strange woman shows up in town and accuses the Read More

1989
Innerspace

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, Fiona Lewis

Synopsis: Director Joe Dante infuses this science fiction comedy with the visual razzle-dazzle and manic, goofball performances typical of his cartoon-inspired sensibilities. Navy test pilot Lt. Tuck Pendleton (Dennis Quaid) has volunteered for a highly dangerous medical experiment. A submersible craft Read More

7/1/87
The Movie Maker

Actors: Natasha Kautsky, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Orson Bean, Anthony Alda

Synopsis: This low-budget film about raising funds to make a movie offers inventive plotting from director Jim Wilson. Alec Carroll (Ben Glass) is off on one misadventure after another as he beats the bushes trying to get sponsors for his independently produced film. His story itself seems unlikely but his Read More

1986
Murder, She Wrote: Keep the Home Fries Burning

Synopsis: Along with her friends Amos (Tom Bosley) and Seth (William Windom), Jessica (Angela Lansbury) decides to sample the cooking at Cabot Cove's newest tourist attraction, the Joshua Peabody Inn. Casting a pall over the evening is a batch of spoiled strawberry preserves, causing several patrons to Read More

1986
Forty Deuce

Actors: Orson Bean, Kevin Bacon, Mark Keyloun, Harris Laskaway, Tom Citera

Synopsis: The seamy underworld of Manhattan's 42nd street provides the background for this gritty drama that centers around a sleazy male prostitute, addicted to heroin, who tries to get drug money by selling a tender runaway boy to a homosexual. The kid soon over-doses on heroin and dies. The prostitute Read More

1982
The Return of the King

Actors: Orson Bean

Synopsis: The second of Rankin/Bass' animated TV specials based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, Return of the King plots the quest to defeat the evil wizard Sauron. Frodo, nephew of The Hobbit protagonist Bilbo Baggins, vows to destroy the Ring, even if it costs him his own life. He carries the Ring to the Read More

1980
The Hobbit

Synopsis: J.R.R. Tolkien's classic book about the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins and his unexpected adventures came to life in this animated, televised adaptation by Rankin-Bass Productions. Enthusiasts of Tolkien's lengthy and more demanding Lord of the Rings trilogy, as well as adult readers of The Hobbit, may be Read More

1978
Skateboard

Actors: Allen Garfield, Kathleen Lloyd, Leif Garrett, Richard Van Der Wyk, Tony Alva

Synopsis: This lively actioner was made to cash in on the skateboard mania of the mid 1970s. It is the story of a Hollywood agent who finds himself in deep trouble with a powerful bookie. Now he must come up with the cash he owes or face certain death. To make a fast buck, he creates a team of exceptionally Read More

1977
The Spy Who Returned From the Dead

Synopsis: In this espionage drama, a leading US agent fakes his death and then begins working as a double agent for an enemy country. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
Lola

Actors: Charles Bronson, Susan George, Trevor Howard, Michael Craig, Honor Blackman

Synopsis: A couple tries to hold their relationship together despite the twenty-three year gap in their ages in this romantic comedy/drama. Scott Wardman (Charles Bronson) is an 39-year-old American author living in England who supports himself by writing pornographic novels. Scott meets Twinky (Susan Read More

1969
The Star Wagon

Actors: Orson Bean, Dustin Hoffman

Synopsis: Dustin Hoffman was only a few months away from his star-making role in The Graduate when he appeared in this television adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's satiric dark comedy. A disgruntled inventor (Orson Bean) whose career is going nowhere finally comes up with something that could change the Read More

1967
The Twilight Zone: Mr. Bevis

Actors: Orson Bean, Henry Jones, Charles Lane, William Schallert, Horace McMahon

Synopsis: Scriptwriter Rod Serling had intended the June 3, 1960, Twilight Zone episode as the pilot for a TV series starring Burgess Meredith, but when Meredith balked, the title role was recast with Orson Bean. A natural-born eccentric and misfit, James B.W. Bevis somehow or other warrants the special Read More

1960
Anatomy of a Murder

Actors: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O'Connell, George C. Scott, Eve Arden, Kathryn Grant

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Robert Traver (the pseudonym for Michigan Supreme Court justice John D. Voelker), Anatomy of a Murder stars James Stewart as seat-of-the-pants Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler. Through the intervention of his alcoholic mentor, Parnell McCarthy (Arthur O'Connell) Read More

1959
Playhouse 90: Charley's Aunt

Actors: Art Carney, Jeanette MacDonald, Tom Tryon, Orson Bean, Jackie Coogan

Synopsis: Art Carney plays the title role, so to speak, in this live, 90-minute Playhouse 90 adaptation of Brandon Thomas' classic stage farce Charley's Aunt. The play's basic premise--Oxford undergrad Lord Fancourt Babberly (Carney) must pose as the elderly aunt of his roommate Charley Wyckeham so that Read More

1957
How to Be Very, Very, Popular

Actors: Betty Grable, Sheree North, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Tommy Noonan

Synopsis: Betty Grable's final film was a remake of the 1934 Bing Crosby-Miriam Hopkins musicomedy She Loves Me Not, which in turn was based on a play by Howard Lindsay. Betty and Sheree North star as a couple of striptease "artistes" who have the bad luck to witness a murder. Hoping to evade the killer Read More

1955
Studio One: The Square Peg

1952

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