List of Famous people named Orson

Here are some famous Orsons:

Orson Welles

George Orson Welles
First Name Orson
Born on May 6, 1915
Died on October 10, 1985 (aged 70)
Height 183 cm | 6'0

George Orson Welles was an American actor, director, screenwriter and producer who is remembered for his innovative work in radio, theatre and film. He is considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time.

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Orson Bean

Dallas Frederick Burrows
First Name Orson
Born on July 22, 1928
Died on February 7, 2020 (aged 91)

Orson Bean was a veteran American film, television, and stage actor, and a comedian, writer, and producer. He was a game show and talk show host and a "mainstay of Los Angeles’s 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. "A storyteller par excellence", he was a favorite of Johnny Carson, appearing on The Tonight Show over 200 times.

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Orson Scott Card

First Name Orson
Born on August 24, 1951 (age 73)

Orson Scott Card is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) won both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award. A feature film adaptation of Ender's Game, which Card co-produced, was released in 2013. Card also wrote the Locus Fantasy Award-winning series The Tales of Alvin Maker (1987–2003).

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