Actor-Comedian Orson Bean, 91, Hit and Killed by Car in LA [Andrew Breitbart’s Father-in-Law]

The Epoch Times ^ | February 8, 2020 Updated: February 8, 2020 | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

[E. Pluribus Unum]

People can change. Orson did. Thanks, Qiviut.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/how-orson-bean-found-god-2.php

[E. Pluribus Unum]

When I was 16 and had been driving three days my “friends” talked me into a drag race on Missouri Bottoms Road.

Got up to 80 MPH and then discovered that the road was flooded.

Lost complete control at 80 mph and did God only knows how many 360-degree turns.

When the car came to rest my 62 Impala was stuck in the mud.

Gary pulled it out with his 63 Falcon and I took it to the car wash and that was it.

I and my two “friends” should have been dead, and I knew it.

Fifty years later I’m still kicking and I have never drag raced again.

[Rastus]

He was a long, long time ago, but he was very conservative in his later years. He is the one who pushed Andrew Breitbart into conservatism, not the other way around. As I said in the other thread, he was on the left but he was too nice a guy to stay there long.

[nutmeg]

what a sad way to go. Make to 91 and get taken out by a car.

VERY sad. I always liked Orson Bean. I remember him from way back on 'To Tell The Truth'.

Prayers for his daughter (the late Andrew Breitbart's wife) and Orson Bean's entire family. RIP, Orson Bean.

[nutmeg]

Wow, that’s amazing! We’re all very glad you’re still here, RummyChick. :-)

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

He also was the voice of Bilbo in one of the cartoon versions of The Hobbit. I probably have it on VHS in a box in the attic.

[wardaddy]

Kitty was from a prominent Louisiana Jewish family with strong antebellum roots and plantations and a grandfather I think who was a Jewish CSA general

My mother knew her from when my mom was miss Mississippi

I think kitty was a broadway actress more than anything

[BradyLS]

I reckon so. But I did watch a lot of Gilligan’s Island growing up and saw enough of To Tell The Truth to remember, Kitty, Orson, Peggy (Cass), and Gary Moore. Kitty and Lovey seemed to me the same sort of archetype: wealthy socialites with a distinct manner of speaking and style befitting it (and decent people besides).

[wardaddy]

Her family history is fascinating

[Pelham]

"Rosen gives an overview of Jewish participation in the Confederate States Army (CSA) during the American Civil War of 1861–1865, and their attachment to the extant Confederate States of America.

"Even though Jews were only 2,000 out of 1 million members of the CSA, Rosen shows that both Sephardi Jews, who had been in the South for a long time, and Ashkenazi Jews, most of whom were immigrants from Prussia, joined the Confederacy alongside their neighbors and served honorably.

"While the book mentions well-known Jewish Confederates such as Judah P. Benjamin, Moses Ezekiel, David Levy Yulee, Abraham Myers and Phoebe Pember, and lesser known Jewish Confederates like Henry M. Hyams, Benjamin F. Jonas, Adolph Proskauer and Alexander Hart, it is also full of vignettes about the lives of ordinary Southern Jewish families who sent their sons to the war front, as well as their daughters and mothers, who often acted as Confederate informants.

[wardaddy]

As you can well imagine I have a signed copy of the book and I make sure all my Jewish friends know that

I can be kind of obnoxious LOL