William Henry Rorke (October 23, 1910 – August 19, 1987) was an American actor best known for playing Col. Dr. Alfred E. Bellows on the 1960s American sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. Rorke was unashamedly gay, as Jeannie co-star Barbara Eden stated in her 2011 biography Jeannie Out of the Bottle. She commented that Rorke and his partner, Justus Addiss, lived together for many years in Studio City, along with their menagerie of dogs. He and Addiss would often invite the cast over for parties. Eden described Hayden as a prince who was a good friend of all and always managed to keep up the spirits of the I Dream of Jeannie cast, often in difficult circumstances.
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