Edward Binns
Acting
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.
The Americanization of Emily
as Admiral Thomas Healy
Age 48 (now 74)
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
as Self (archive footage)
Age 103 (now 74)
The Man You Loved to Hate
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Age 62 (now 74)
Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones
as Pedro
Age 55 (now 74)
This Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is The Massage
as Narration
Age 50 (now 74)
The Americanization of Emily
as Admiral Thomas Healy
Age 48 (now 74)
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
as Brakeman
Age 45 (now 74)
Halls of Montezuma
as First Soldier in Final Tracking Shot (uncredited)
Age 34 (now 74)
The Bold Ones: The Senator
as Arthur Beresford
Age 54 (now 74)
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as Captain Sloane
Age 47 (now 74)
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as Colonel Baldwin
Age 43 (now 74)
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
as Lieutenant Larrabee
Age 40 (now 74)
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Abel McHugh
Age 40 (now 74) Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Sam Tompkins
Age 40 (now 74)
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Also Known As
Ed Binns, Eddie Binns, Edwards Binns, Edwared Binns
IMDB
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