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.
Filmography (126)
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
2020
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
2000
After School
1988
The Equalizer
1985
The Verdict
1982
The Pilot
1980
The Murder That Wouldn't Die
1980
F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980
The Man You Loved to Hate
1979
The Power Within
1979
Oliver's Story
1978
Stubby Pringle's Christmas
1978
Lucan
1977
Just an Old Sweet Song
1976
Diary of the Dead
1976
Alice
1976
Night Moves
1975
Lovin' Molly
1974
The First Woman President
1974
The Manhunter
1974
The Rockford Files
1974
Police Woman
1974
Hunter
1973
Police Story
1973
Fireball Forward
1972
M*A*S*H
1972
The Brian Keith Show
1972
The Tell-Tale Heart
1971
Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones
1971
The Sheriff
1971
Cannon
1971
Patton
1970
McCloud
1970
The Bold Ones: The Senator
1970
Chubasco
1968
Hawaii Five-O
1968
It Takes a Thief
1968
The Name of the Game
1968
This Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is The Massage
1967
The Price of a Life
1967
Judd, for the Defense
1967
Captain Nice
1967
Ironside
1967
The Plainsman
1966
Tarzan
1966
Blue Light
1966
The F.B.I.
1965
Laredo
1965
Run for Your Life
1965
The Wild Wild West
1965
The Loner
1965
Fail Safe
1964
The Americanization of Emily
1964
Daniel Boone
1964
The Fugitive
1963
The Dakotas
1963
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
A Public Affair
1962
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
1962
The Virginian
1962
The Nurses
1962
Stoney Burke
1962
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961
Cain's Hundred
1961
The New Breed
1961
Dr. Kildare
1961
The Defenders
1961
The Asphalt Jungle
1961
The Investigators
1961
Heller in Pink Tights
1960
Desire in the Dust
1960
Route 66
1960
Outlaws
1960
Thriller
1960
The Aquanauts
1960
Checkmate
1960
North by Northwest
1959
Compulsion
1959
The Man in the Net
1959
Curse of the Undead
1959
The Twilight Zone
1959
One Step Beyond
1959
The Detectives
1959
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
Brenner
1959
The Untouchables
1959
The Rifleman
1958
Portland Exposé
1957
Young and Dangerous
1957
12 Angry Men
1957
Perry Mason
1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
The Thin Man
1957
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957
M Squad
1957
Alcoa Theatre
1957
Wagon Train
1957
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
1956
The Scarlet Hour
1956
Tragedy in a Temporary Town
1956
Patterns
1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
Telephone Time
1956
State Trooper
1956
Conflict
1956
Gunsmoke
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Matinee Theater
1955
Navy Log
1955
Climax!
1954
Inner Sanctum
1954
Vice Squad
1953
General Electric Theater
1953
Letter to Loretta
1953
Without Warning!
1952
Omnibus
1952
Teresa
1951
Halls of Montezuma
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Lux Video Theatre
1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Suspense
1949
Studio One
1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
Kraft Television Theatre
1947
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