Desperate Housewives star Orson Bean dies aged 91 after being struck cars
Desperate Housewives actor Orson Bean has died at the age of 91 after being struck by two vehicles.
Bean was crossing a street in Venice, Los Angeles on Friday (February 7) when the fatal accident happened, TMZ has reported.
Los Angeles Police Department Captain Brian Wendling (via ABC News) has explained that Bean was walking in the Venice neighbourhood when he was first clipped by a vehicle and then struck by another, leading to the fatality.
"The car coming westbound did not see him and clipped him and he went down. A second vehicle was coming up, was distracted by people trying to slow him down and then looked up and then a second traffic collision occurred and that one was fatal."
The police have started an investigation, but according to the report the accident was being inquired as a "traffic-related" death.
During the 1960s to 1980s, Bean frequently appeared on game shows, most famous for starring on Tell The Truth and Match Game.
One of his movie roles was in Being John Malkovich, where he starred alongside John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, and Catherine Keener, John Malkovich and Charlie Sheen.
During his acting career, the veteran actor appeared in a number of Broadway productions and was nominated for a Tony Award for the 1961-1962 musical Subways Are for Sleeping.
He also starred in Desperate Housewives between 2009 and 2012 and had roles in Two and a Half Men and How I Met Your Mother.
Bean was married to actress Alley Mills and the couple share four children together.
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