Edward Binns

Edward Binns

  • Birthday: 1916-09-12
  • Deathday: 1990-12-04
  • Place of birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
  • Also know as: Ed Binns

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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

Portland Exposé

1957

As George Madison

The Man You Loved to Hate

1979

As Himself - Narrator (voice)

The Power Within

1979

As Gen. Tom Darrow

A Public Affair

1962

As Sen. Fred Baines

The Price of a Life

1967

As Narrator

Night Moves

1975

As Joey Ziegler

Young and Dangerous

1957

As Dr. Price

After School

1988

As Monsignor Frank Barrett

F.D.R.: The Last Year

1980

As General 'Pa' Watson

Without Warning!

1952

As Lt. Pete Hamilton

Oliver's Story

1978

As Phil Cavilleri

Lovin' Molly

1974

As Mr. Frye

'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

2020

As Self (archive footage)

Diary of the Dead

1976

As Mr. McNulty

Fireball Forward

1972

As Corps Commander

Fail Safe

1964

As Col. Jack Grady

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

1956

As Lt. Kennedy

The Americanization of Emily

1964

As Admiral Thomas Healy

Vice Squad

1953

As Al Barkis

Chubasco

1968

As Judge North

12 Angry Men

1957

As Juror 6

Curse of the Undead

1959

As Sheriff

The Verdict

1982

As Bishop Brophy

The Scarlet Hour

1956

As Sgt. Allen

The Pilot

1980

As Larry Zanoff

Desire in the Dust

1960

As Luke Connett

Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'

2000

As Self (archive footage)

Just an Old Sweet Song

1976

As Mr. Claypool

Heller in Pink Tights

1960

As Sheriff Ed McClain

The Man in the Net

1959

As State Police Capt. Green

Teresa

1951

As Sgt. Brown

The Murder That Wouldn't Die

1980

As Allan Battles

The Sheriff

1971

As Paulsen

Compulsion

1959

As Tom Daly

Judgment at Nuremberg

1961

As Senator Burkette

North by Northwest

1959

As Captain Junket

Patterns

1956

As Elevator Starter

Halls of Montezuma

1951

As First Soldier in Final Tracking Shot (uncredited)

Patton

1970

As Major General Walter Bedell Smith

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