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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 12, 1916
Died
December 4, 1990
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Also Known As
- Ed Binns
- Eddie Binns
- Edwards Binns
- Edwared Binns
Edward Binns
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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.
Known For
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Self (archive footage)
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
2020
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
2000
2.1
Monsignor Frank Barrett
After School
1988
7.1
Father Martin O'Donohugh
The Equalizer
1985
7.4
Bishop Brophy
The Verdict
1982
6.7
Larry Zanoff
The Pilot
1980
5.8
General 'Pa' Watson
F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980
2.0
Allan Battles
The Murder That Wouldn't Die
1980
6.3
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Man You Loved to Hate
1979
0.0
Gen. Tom Darrow
The Power Within
1979
Credits
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
as Self (archive footage)
2020
0.0
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
as Self (archive footage)
2000
0.0
After School
as Monsignor Frank Barrett
1988
2.1
The Equalizer
as Father Martin O'Donohugh
1985
7.1
The Verdict
as Bishop Brophy
1982
7.4
The Pilot
as Larry Zanoff
1980
6.7
F.D.R.: The Last Year
as General 'Pa' Watson
1980
5.8
The Murder That Wouldn't Die
as Allan Battles
1980
2.0
The Man You Loved to Hate
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1979
6.3
The Power Within
as Gen. Tom Darrow
1979
0.0
Stubby Pringle's Christmas
as Red
1978
0.0
Oliver's Story
as Phil Cavilleri
1978
4.6
Lucan
1977
6.0
Just an Old Sweet Song
as Mr. Claypool
1976
7.0
Alice
1976
7.1
Diary of the Dead
as Mr. McNulty
1976
7.0
Night Moves
as Joey Ziegler
1975
6.7
The Rockford Files
as Everet Alton Benson
1974
7.6
Police Woman
as John Solvana
1974
6.2
The Manhunter
1974
5.0
Lovin' Molly
as Mr. Frye
1974
4.1
The First Woman President
as Joe Tumulty
1974
0.0
Police Story
1973
6.9
Hunter
as Owen Larkdale
1973
0.0
M*A*S*H
as General Korshak
1972
7.9
The Brian Keith Show
1972
5.0
Fireball Forward
as Corps Commander
1972
5.0
Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones
as Pedro
1971
0.0
Cannon
1971
6.6
The Sheriff
as Paulsen
1971
5.3
The Tell-Tale Heart
1971
8.5
The Bold Ones: The Senator
as Arthur Beresford
1970
3.0
McCloud
1970
7.1
Patton
as Major General Walter Bedell Smith
1970
7.5
Hawaii Five-O
as Mills
1968
7.1
Chubasco
as Judge North
1968
3.0
It Takes a Thief
as Wally Powers
1968
7.2
It Takes a Thief
as Wallie Powers
1968
7.2
Judd for the Defense
1967
7.5
Ironside
as Charlie Culver
1967
6.8
This Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is The Massage
as Narration
1967
9.0
Captain Nice
1967
5.7
The Price of a Life
as Narrator
1967
0.0
Tarzan
1966
6.7
The Plainsman
as Lattimer
1966
4.8
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Blue Light
1966
5.0
The F.B.I.
as Bill Hollis
1965
5.4
The F.B.I.
as Barney Simms
1965
5.4
The Loner
as Manet
1965
5.7
The Wild Wild West
as Colonel Roper
1965
7.6
Laredo
1965
6.3
Run for Your Life
as Colonel Delaney
1965
7.2
The Americanization of Emily
as Admiral Thomas Healy
1964
6.6
Fail Safe
as Col. Jack Grady
1964
7.8
Daniel Boone
as Seth Jennings
1964
7.0
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Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as Captain Sloane
1963
5.7
The Fugitive
as George Savano
1963
7.2
The Fugitive
as Josh Kovaks
1963
7.2
The Fugitive
as Angstrom
1963
7.2
The Dakotas
1963
5.7
Stoney Burke
1962
5.7
The Nurses
as Dr. Anson Kiley
1962
4.2
The Virginian
as Colonel John Briscoe
1962
6.4
The Virginian
as Mike McCormick
1962
6.4
The Virginian
as Pa McRae
1962
6.4
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
as Brakeman
1962
5.2
A Public Affair
as Sen. Fred Baines
1962
0.0
Judgment at Nuremberg
as Senator Burkette
1961
8.0
The Investigators
as Jim Corbin
1961
5.0
The New Breed
as Crafts
1961
7.0
Dr. Kildare
as Ben Laney
1961
5.5
Dr. Kildare
as Peter De Gravio
1961
5.5
Cain's Hundred
as Capt. Ernest Lemoyne
1961
4.7
The Defenders
as Victor Fergusson
1961
5.9
The Defenders
as District Attorney Wolf
1961
5.9
The Asphalt Jungle
1961
5.0
Desire in the Dust
as Luke Connett
1960
3.3
Route 66
1960
6.3
Outlaws
1960
6.2
Checkmate
as Harl Stoner
1960
4.1
The Aquanauts
as Ed Barron
1960
5.5
Thriller
as Lt. Giddeon
1960
6.6
Heller in Pink Tights
as Sheriff Ed McClain
1960
5.7
The Detectives
1959
6.1
The Untouchables
as Dr. Samuels
1959
7.8
The Twilight Zone
as Bob Donlin
1959
8.5
The Twilight Zone
as General Walters
1959
8.5
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as Colonel Baldwin
1959
6.3
North by Northwest
as Captain Junket
1959
8.0
The Man in the Net
as State Police Capt. Green
1959
4.9
Brenner
as Roy Brenner
1959
5.0
Curse of the Undead
as Sheriff
1959
5.4
Compulsion
as Tom Daly
1959
7.1
One Step Beyond
as Fred Graham
1959
5.6
The Rifleman
1958
7.1
Young and Dangerous
as Dr. Price
1957
6.0
Alcoa Theatre
as Captain Posen
1957
6.5
Alcoa Theatre
as Major Robert Fielding
1957
6.5
Perry Mason
as Lloyd Castle
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Charles Griffin
1957
7.7
M Squad
as Wally Gardner
1957
5.2
The Thin Man
1957
7.5
Wagon Train
as Sheriff Bill Strode
1957
6.6
Wagon Train
as Jud Steele
1957
6.6
Wagon Train
as Major Starbuck
1957
6.6
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
7.3
Portland Exposé
as George Madison
1957
5.8
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
as Lieutenant Larrabee
1957
6.2
12 Angry Men
as Juror 6
1957
8.5
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Abel McHugh
1956
6.0
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Sam Tompkins
1956
6.0
🎬
State Trooper
as Frederick Walden
1956
5.0
🎬
State Trooper
as Harley Bender
1956
5.0
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
as Lt. Kennedy
1956
6.8
Telephone Time
1956
6.3
The Scarlet Hour
as Sgt. Allen
1956
5.1
Patterns
as Elevator Starter
1956
7.2
Tragedy in a Temporary Town
as Anderson
1956
6.2
Matinee Theater
1955
5.0
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Mr. Brown
1955
7.8
🎬
Navy Log
1955
4.5
Gunsmoke
as Bill Strapp
1955
6.6
Climax!
as Lieutenant Lewis
1954
3.3
Inner Sanctum
1954
7.0
Letter to Loretta
as Governor Jim Pierson
1953
6.5
Vice Squad
as Al Barkis
1953
5.7
General Electric Theater
as Harry Wilson
1953
6.4
Omnibus
as Bitter ex-beau
1952
6.0
Omnibus
1952
6.0
Without Warning!
as Lt. Pete Hamilton
1952
5.9
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Red
1951
8.6
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Daniels
1951
7.2
Teresa
as Sgt. Brown
1951
5.8
Halls of Montezuma
as First Soldier in Final Tracking Shot (uncredited)
1951
5.9
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Silas
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Prosecutor
1950
6.3
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
5.6
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Dan Thompson
1950
5.6
Suspense
1949
4.9
Studio One
as Joe Doyle
1948
5.0
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
6.3
Kraft Television Theatre
1947
7.5