Edward Binns
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 12, 1916
- Died
- December 4, 1990 (aged 74)
- Birthplace
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography
Edward Binns (September 12, 1916 – December 4, 1990) was an American stage, film, and television actor. He had a wide-spanning career in film and television, often portraying competent, hard working, and purposeful characters in his various roles. Binns was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. One of the first members of the newly formed Actors Studio, Binns began studying with Elia Kazanin the fall of 1947. After appearing in a number of Broadway plays, Binns began appearing in films in the early 1950s. Some of his notable roles include playing Juror #6 in 12 Angry Men and Lieutenant GeneralWalter Bedell Smith in the Academy Award-winning film Patton (1970). Binns featured in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest as a police detective. He played a key role as bomber pilot Colonel Grady in the 1964 film Fail-Safe. Binns also appeared in dozens of television programs including NBC's legal drama Justice, Rod Cameron's syndicated State Trooper, the syndicated adventure series Whirlybirds, the ABC/Warner Brotherswestern series, The Dakotas, the ABC rodeo drama, Stoney Burke, and ABC's war drama 12 O'Clock High. He was cast in CBS's Richard Diamond, Private Detective (as Larrabee in the 1958 episode "Pension Plan"), The Investigators and Thriller (U.S. TV series). Binns appeared as Colonel Robert Baldwin with June Allyson as his screen wife, Eleanor Baldwin, in the 1961 episode "Without Fear" of Allyson's CBS anthology series, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. Also that year he made two guest appearances on Perry Mason, first as Lloyd Castle in "The Case of the Angry Dead Man," then as Charles Griffin in "The Case of the Malicious Mariner," and in an episode of The Asphalt Jungle. He had a leading role in Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone in the 1960 episode "I Shot an Arrow into the Air". Binns also appeared in two episodes of ABC's The Untouchables as gunman Steve Ballard and in a later episode as a doctor. He was a cast member of CBS's The Nurses from 1962 through 1964. He appeared in an episode of the ABC espionage drama Blue Light early in 1966, and in ABC's It Takes a Thief (1969–1970) with Robert Wagner. Binns also appeared in one episode of the ABC series A Man Called Shenandoah, with Robert Horton, as General Korshak on CBS's M*A*S*H, in an episode of NBC's The Brian Keith Show, and in three episodes of ABC's The Fugitive. His distinctive voice was also heard in hundreds of radio and television commercials. Binns died from a heart attack at the age of seventy-four while traveling from New York City to his home inConnecticut. His ashes were scattered at his residence.
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Filmography
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
After School
Movie · as Monsignor Frank Barrett
Whatever it Takes
Movie · as Mr. Kingsley
The Equalizer
TV · as Father Martin O'Donohugh · 1 ep
The Verdict
Movie · as Bishop Brophy
The Pilot
Movie · as Larry Zanoff
The Murder That Wouldn't Die
Movie · as Allan Battles
F.D.R.: The Last Year
Movie · as General 'Pa' Watson
The Man You Loved to Hate
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Power Within
Movie · as Gen. Tom Darrow
Oliver's Story
Movie · as Phil Cavilleri
Stubby Pringle's Christmas
Movie · as Red
Lucan
TV · 1 ep
Just an Old Sweet Song
Movie · as Mr. Claypool
Diary of the Dead
Movie · as Mr. McNulty
Alice
TV · 1 ep
Night Moves
Movie · as Joey Ziegler
Lovin' Molly
Movie · as Mr. Frye
The First Woman President
Movie · as Joe Tumulty
The Manhunter
TV · 1 ep
The Rockford Files
TV · as Everet Alton Benson · 1 ep
Police Woman
TV · as John Solvana · 1 ep
Hunter
Movie · as Owen Larkdale
Police Story
TV · 1 ep
Fireball Forward
Movie · as Corps Commander
M*A*S*H
TV · as General Korshak · 1 ep
The Brian Keith Show
TV · 1 ep
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · as Police Officer
Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones
Movie · as Pedro
The Sheriff
Movie · as Paulsen
Cannon
TV · 1 ep
Patton
Movie · as Major General Walter Bedell Smith
McCloud
TV · 1 ep
The Bold Ones: The Senator
TV · as Arthur Beresford · 1 ep
Hawaii Five-O
TV · as Mills · 1 ep
Chubasco
Movie · as Judge North
It Takes a Thief
TV · as Wally Powers, Wallie Powers · 3 eps
The Name of the Game
TV · as Dan Borden · 1 ep
This Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is The Massage
Movie · as Narration
The Price of a Life
Movie · as Narrator
Judd, for the Defense
TV · 2 eps
Captain Nice
TV · 1 ep
Ironside
TV · as Charlie Culver · 1 ep
The Plainsman
Movie · as Lattimer
Tarzan
TV · 2 eps
Blue Light
TV · 1 ep
The F.B.I.
TV · as Bill Hollis, Barney Simms · 1 ep
Laredo
TV · 1 ep
Run for Your Life
TV · as Colonel Delaney · 1 ep
The Wild Wild West
TV · as Colonel Roper · 1 ep
The Loner
TV · as Manet · 1 ep
Fail Safe
Movie · as Col. Jack Grady
The Americanization of Emily
Movie · as Admiral Thomas Healy
Daniel Boone
TV · as Seth Jennings · 1 ep
The Fugitive
TV · as George Savano, Josh Kovaks, Angstrom · 1 ep
The Dakotas
TV · 1 ep
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV · as Captain Sloane · 1 ep
A Public Affair
Movie · as Sen. Fred Baines
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
Movie · as Brakeman
The Virginian
TV · as Colonel John Briscoe, Mike McCormick, Pa McRae · 1 ep
The Nurses
TV · as Dr. Anson Kiley · 97 eps
Stoney Burke
TV · 1 ep
Judgment at Nuremberg
Movie · as Senator Burkette
Cain's Hundred
TV · as Capt. Ernest Lemoyne · 1 ep
The New Breed
TV · as Crafts · 1 ep
Dr. Kildare
TV · as Ben Laney, Peter De Gravio · 1 ep
The Defenders
TV · as Victor Fergusson, District Attorney Wolf · 1 ep
The Asphalt Jungle
TV · 1 ep
The Investigators
TV · as Jim Corbin · 1 ep
Heller in Pink Tights
Movie · as Sheriff Ed McClain
Desire in the Dust
Movie · as Luke Connett
Route 66
TV · 2 eps
Outlaws
TV · 1 ep
Thriller
TV · as Lt. Giddeon · 1 ep
The Aquanauts
TV · as Ed Barron · 1 ep
Checkmate
TV · as Harl Stoner · 1 ep
North by Northwest
Movie · as Captain Junket
Compulsion
Movie · as Tom Daly
The Man in the Net
Movie · as State Police Capt. Green
Curse of the Undead
Movie · as Sheriff
The Twilight Zone
TV · as Bob Donlin, General Walters · 1 ep
One Step Beyond
TV · as Fred Graham · 1 ep
The Detectives
TV · 1 ep
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
TV · as Colonel Baldwin · 1 ep
Brenner
TV · as Roy Brenner · 17 eps
The Untouchables
TV · as Dr. Samuels · 1 ep
The Rifleman
TV · as Keely Thompson · 1 ep
Portland Exposé
Movie · as George Madison
Young and Dangerous
Movie · as Dr. Price
12 Angry Men
Movie · as Juror 6
Perry Mason
TV · as Lloyd Castle, Charles Griffin · 1 ep
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV · 1 ep
The Thin Man
TV · 1 ep
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
TV · as Lieutenant Larrabee · 1 ep
M Squad
TV · as Wally Gardner · 1 ep
Alcoa Theatre
TV · as Captain Posen, Major Robert Fielding · 1 ep
Wagon Train
TV · as Sheriff Bill Strode, Jud Steele, Major Starbuck · 1 ep
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Movie · as Lt. Kennedy
The Scarlet Hour
Movie · as Sgt. Allen
Tragedy in a Temporary Town
Movie · as Anderson
Patterns
Movie · as Elevator Starter
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV · as Abel McHugh, Sam Tompkins · 1 ep
Telephone Time
TV · 1 ep
State Trooper
TV · as Frederick Walden, Harley Bender · 1 ep
Conflict
TV · 1 ep
Gunsmoke
TV · as Bill Strapp · 1 ep
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as Mr. Brown · 1 ep
Matinee Theater
TV · 2 eps
Navy Log
TV · 2 eps
Climax!
TV · as Lieutenant Lewis · 1 ep
Inner Sanctum
TV · 4 eps
Vice Squad
Movie · as Al Barkis
General Electric Theater
TV · as Harry Wilson · 1 ep
Letter to Loretta
TV · as Governor Jim Pierson · 1 ep
Without Warning!
Movie · as Lt. Pete Hamilton
Omnibus
TV · as Bitter ex-beau · 1 ep
Teresa
Movie · as Sgt. Brown
Halls of Montezuma
Movie · as First Soldier in Final Tracking Shot (uncredited)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Red · 2 eps
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV · as Daniels · 1 ep
Lux Video Theatre
TV · as Silas, Prosecutor · 1 ep
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV · as Dan Thompson · 1 ep
Suspense
TV · 3 eps
Studio One
TV · as Joe Doyle · 1 ep
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV · 3 eps
Kraft Television Theatre
TV · 2 eps