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Orson Bean, Actor Who Voiced Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, Dies at 91

posted by martyb on Monday February 10 2020, @02:40AM   Printer-friendly
from the R.I.P. dept.

kreuzfeld writes:

Readers here include many avid JRR Tolkien fans. Now, coming not long after the death of Christopher Tolkien (JRR's prolific son) comes a new fatality, Orson Bean:

Born July 22, 1928, Bean was a star of the small and big screen. [...] He is also one of the first actors to portray a hobbit, as he voiced both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins in the Rankin/Bass animated TV films The Hobbit and The Return of the King in the late 1970s. Before Elijah Wood or Martin Freeman, Tolkien fans had Bean as the voice in their head while re-reading the novels.

Here are his entries on IMDb and Wikipedia.

Love them or hate them, the Rankin/Bass films & Bean's key roles in them defined the Tolkien experience for a generation of viewers.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Unixnut on Monday February 10 2020, @08:33AM

    by Unixnut (5779) on Monday February 10 2020, @08:33AM (#956285)

    I actually read TFA to make sure, but yes, he did in fact die in that awful way. It should have been mentioned in the summary IMO, just because at 91. most people would assume he died of natural causes (at least I did).

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