Edward Binns
Actor
Born September 12, 1916 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
Self (archive footage)
After School
Monsignor Frank Barrett
Whatever it Takes
Mr. Kingsley
The Equalizer
Father Martin O'Donohugh
The Verdict
Bishop Brophy
The Pilot
Larry Zanoff
F.D.R.: The Last Year
General 'Pa' Watson
The Murder That Wouldn't Die
Allan Battles
The Man You Loved to Hate
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Power Within
Gen. Tom Darrow
Stubby Pringle's Christmas
Red
Oliver's Story
Phil Cavilleri
Lucan
Just an Old Sweet Song
Mr. Claypool
Alice
Diary of the Dead
Mr. McNulty
Night Moves
Joey Ziegler
The Rockford Files
Everet Alton Benson
Police Woman
John Solvana
The Manhunter
Lovin' Molly
Mr. Frye
The First Woman President
Joe Tumulty
Police Story
Hunter
Owen Larkdale
M*A*S*H
General Korshak
The Brian Keith Show
Fireball Forward
Corps Commander
Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones
Pedro
Cannon
The Sheriff
Paulsen
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Bold Ones: The Senator
Arthur Beresford
McCloud
Patton
Major General Walter Bedell Smith
Hawaii Five-O
Mills
The Name of the Game
Dan Borden
Chubasco
Judge North
It Takes a Thief
Wally Powers
Judd, for the Defense
Ironside
Charlie Culver
This Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is The Massage
Narration
Captain Nice
The Price of a Life
Narrator
Tarzan
The Plainsman
Lattimer
Blue Light
The F.B.I.
Bill Hollis
The Loner
Manet
The Wild Wild West
Colonel Roper
Laredo
Run for Your Life
Colonel Delaney
The Americanization of Emily
Admiral Thomas Healy
Fail Safe
Col. Jack Grady
Daniel Boone
Seth Jennings
The Fugitive
George Savano
The Dakotas
Stoney Burke
The Nurses
Dr. Anson Kiley
The Virginian
Colonel John Briscoe
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
Brakeman
A Public Affair
Sen. Fred Baines
Judgment at Nuremberg
Senator Burkette
The Investigators
Jim Corbin
The New Breed
Crafts
Dr. Kildare
Ben Laney
Cain's Hundred
Capt. Ernest Lemoyne
The Defenders
Victor Fergusson
The Asphalt Jungle
Desire in the Dust
Luke Connett
Route 66
Outlaws
Checkmate
Harl Stoner
The Aquanauts
Ed Barron
Thriller
Lt. Giddeon
Heller in Pink Tights
Sheriff Ed McClain
Curse of the Undead
Sheriff
The Detectives
The Untouchables
Dr. Samuels
The Twilight Zone
Bob Donlin
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Colonel Baldwin
North by Northwest
Captain Junket
The Man in the Net
State Police Capt. Green
Brenner
Roy Brenner
Compulsion
Tom Daly
One Step Beyond
Fred Graham
The Rifleman
Keely Thompson
Young and Dangerous
Dr. Price
Alcoa Theatre
Captain Posen
Perry Mason
Lloyd Castle
The Thin Man
M Squad
Wally Gardner
Wagon Train
Sheriff Bill Strode
Have Gun, Will Travel
Portland Exposé
George Madison
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Lieutenant Larrabee
12 Angry Men
Juror 6
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Abel McHugh
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Lt. Kennedy
Telephone Time
The Scarlet Hour
Sgt. Allen
Patterns
Elevator Starter
Tragedy in a Temporary Town
Anderson
Matinee Theater
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Mr. Brown
Navy Log
Gunsmoke
Bill Strapp
Climax!
Lieutenant Lewis
Inner Sanctum
Letter to Loretta
Governor Jim Pierson
Vice Squad
Al Barkis
General Electric Theater
Harry Wilson
Omnibus
Bitter ex-beau
Without Warning!
Lt. Pete Hamilton
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Teresa
Sgt. Brown
Halls of Montezuma
First Soldier in Final Tracking Shot (uncredited)
Robert Montgomery Presents
Suspense
Studio One
Joe Doyle
The Philco Television Playhouse
Kraft Television Theatre