...And no, I did not know he is Breitbart's father-in-law.
I had no idea either. I remember him on some of the old game shows when I was a kid, but I couldn't remember which ones, so I Wiki'd him....
Bean was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s for attending two Communist Party meetings, but made numerous appearances on television and in the theater. A conservative Christian, he came out in support of the Proposition 8 ballot initiative in California. He is father-in-law to Andrew Breitbart and describes his own children, who are all married, as "little communists"...
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...He now lives in Los Angeles with his third wife, actress Alley Mills, who is twenty-three years his junior and whom he married in 1993... (That's the mom on "The Wonder Years", one of my faves from years ago.)