Edward Binns

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 Appearances)

'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

2020

Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'

2000

After School

1988

The Equalizer

1985

The Verdict

1982

The Pilot

1980

F.D.R.: The Last Year

1980

The Murder That Wouldn't Die

1980

The Man You Loved to Hate

1979

The Power Within

1979

Stubby Pringle's Christmas

1978

Oliver's Story

1978

Lucan

1977

Just an Old Sweet Song

1976

Alice

1976

Diary of the Dead

1976

Night Moves

1975

The Rockford Files

1974

Police Woman

1974

The Manhunter

1974

The First Woman President

1974

Lovin' Molly

1974

Police Story

1973

Hunter

1973

M*A*S*H

1972

The Brian Keith Show

1972

Fireball Forward

1972

Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones

1971

Cannon

1971

The Sheriff

1971

The Tell-Tale Heart

1971

The Bold Ones: The Senator

1970

McCloud

1970

Patton

1970

Hawaii Five-O

1968

The Name of the Game

1968

Chubasco

1968

It Takes a Thief

1968

Judd for the Defense

1967

Ironside

1967

This Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is The Massage

1967

Captain Nice

1967

The Price of a Life

1967

Tarzan

1966

The Plainsman

1966

Blue Light

1966

The F.B.I.

1965

The Loner

1965

The Wild Wild West

1965

Laredo

1965

Run for Your Life

1965

The Americanization of Emily

1964

Fail Safe

1964

Daniel Boone

1964

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

1963

The Fugitive

1963

The Dakotas

1963

Stoney Burke

1962

The Nurses

1962

The Virginian

1962

Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man

1962

A Public Affair

1962

Judgment at Nuremberg

1961

The Investigators

1961

The New Breed

1961

Dr. Kildare

1961

Cain's Hundred

1961

The Defenders

1961

The Asphalt Jungle

1961

Desire in the Dust

1960

Route 66

1960

Outlaws

1960

Checkmate

1960

The Aquanauts

1960

Thriller

1960

Heller in Pink Tights

1960

Curse of the Undead

1959

The Detectives

1959

The Untouchables

1959

The Twilight Zone

1959

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

1959

North by Northwest

1959

The Man in the Net

1959

Brenner

1959

Compulsion

1959

One Step Beyond

1959

The Rifleman

1958

Young and Dangerous

1957

Alcoa Theatre

1957

Perry Mason

1957

M Squad

1957

The Thin Man

1957

Wagon Train

1957

Have Gun, Will Travel

1957

Portland Exposé

1957

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

1957

12 Angry Men

1957

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

1956

State Trooper

1956

Conflict

1956

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

1956

Telephone Time

1956

The Scarlet Hour

1956

Patterns

1956

Tragedy in a Temporary Town

1956

Matinee Theater

1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1955

Navy Log

1955

Gunsmoke

1955

Climax!

1954

Inner Sanctum

1954

Letter to Loretta

1953

Vice Squad

1953

General Electric Theater

1953

Omnibus

1952

Without Warning!

1952

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951

Teresa

1951

Halls of Montezuma

1951 Debut

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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