Edward Binns

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 1916-09-12

Died: 1990-12-04

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Halls of Montezuma	First Soldier in Final Tracking Shot (uncredited)	59
2	1951	Teresa	Sgt. Brown	58
3	1952	Without Warning!	Lt. Pete Hamilton	60
4	1953	Vice Squad	Al Barkis	59
5	1956	Tragedy in a Temporary Town	Anderson	62
6	1956	Patterns	Elevator Starter	72
7	1956	The Scarlet Hour	Sgt. Allen	53
8	1956	Beyond a Reasonable Doubt	Lt. Kennedy	69
9	1957	12 Angry Men	Juror 6	85
10	1957	Portland Exposé	George Madison	58
11	1957	Young and Dangerous	Dr. Price	60
12	1959	Compulsion	Tom Daly	71
13	1959	Curse of the Undead	Sheriff	54
14	1959	The Man in the Net	State Police Capt. Green	52
15	1959	North by Northwest	Captain Junket	80
16	1960	Heller in Pink Tights	Sheriff Ed McClain	57
17	1960	Desire in the Dust	Luke Connett	40
18	1961	Judgment at Nuremberg	Senator Burkette	80
19	1962	A Public Affair	Sen. Fred Baines	0
20	1962	Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man	Brakeman	48
21	1964	Fail Safe	Col. Jack Grady	78
22	1964	The Americanization of Emily	Admiral Thomas Healy	67
23	1967	The Price of a Life	Narrator	0
24	1967	This Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is The Massage	Narration	100
25	1968	Chubasco	Judge North	35
26	1970	Patton	Major General Walter Bedell Smith	75
27	1971	The Tell-Tale Heart		85
28	1971	The Sheriff	Paulsen	60
29	1971	Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones	Pedro	0
30	1972	Fireball Forward	Corps Commander	50
31	1973	Hunter	Owen Larkdale	0
32	1974	Lovin' Molly	Mr. Frye	47
33	1975	Night Moves	Joey Ziegler	67
34	1976	Diary of the Dead	Mr. McNulty	70
35	1976	Just an Old Sweet Song	Mr. Claypool	0
36	1978	Oliver's Story	Phil Cavilleri	48
37	1978	Stubby Pringle's Christmas	Red	0
38	1979	The Power Within	Gen. Tom Darrow	0
39	1979	The Man You Loved to Hate	Self - Narrator (voice)	63
40	1980	The Murder That Wouldn't Die	Allan Battles	20
41	1980	F.D.R.: The Last Year	General 'Pa' Watson	58
42	1980	The Pilot	Larry Zanoff	67
43	1982	The Verdict	Bishop Brophy	74
44	1988	After School	Monsignor Frank Barrett	23
45	2000	Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'	Self (archive footage)	0
46	2020	'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War	Self (archive footage)	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1947	Kraft Television Theatre		75
2	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse		63
3	1948	Studio One	Joe Doyle	50
4	1949	Suspense		49
5	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents		56
6	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents	Dan Thompson	56
7	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Silas	63
8	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Prosecutor	63
9	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars		73
10	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Daniels	73
11	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame		86
12	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Red	86
13	1952	Omnibus	Bitter ex-beau	60
14	1952	Omnibus		60
15	1953	General Electric Theater	Harry Wilson	63
16	1953	Letter to Loretta	Governor Jim Pierson	65
17	1954	Inner Sanctum		70
18	1954	Climax!	Lieutenant Lewis	33
19	1955	Gunsmoke	Bill Strapp	66
20	1955	Navy Log		45
21	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Mr. Brown	77
22	1955	Matinee Theater		50
23	1956	Telephone Time		63
24	1956	State Trooper	Frederick Walden	50
25	1956	State Trooper	Harley Bender	50
26	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Abel McHugh	55
27	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Sam Tompkins	55
28	1957	Richard Diamond, Private Detective	Lieutenant Larrabee	62
29	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel		74
30	1957	Wagon Train	Sheriff Bill Strode	63
31	1957	Wagon Train	Jud Steele	63
32	1957	Wagon Train	Major Starbuck	63
33	1957	The Thin Man		76
34	1957	M Squad	Wally Gardner	52
35	1957	Perry Mason	Lloyd Castle	77
36	1957	Perry Mason	Charles Griffin	77
37	1957	Alcoa Theatre	Captain Posen	65
38	1957	Alcoa Theatre	Major Robert Fielding	65
39	1958	The Rifleman		70
40	1959	One Step Beyond	Fred Graham	56
41	1959	Brenner		50
42	1959	The DuPont Show with June Allyson	Colonel Baldwin	63
43	1959	The Twilight Zone	Bob Donlin	84
44	1959	The Twilight Zone	General Walters	84
45	1959	The Untouchables	Dr. Samuels	79
46	1959	The Detectives		56
47	1960	Thriller	Lt. Giddeon	64
48	1960	The Aquanauts	Ed Barron	55
49	1960	Checkmate	Harl Stoner	41
50	1960	Outlaws		62
51	1960	Route 66		63
52	1961	The Asphalt Jungle		50
53	1961	The Defenders	Victor Fergusson	62
54	1961	The Defenders	District Attorney Wolf	62
55	1961	Cain's Hundred	Capt. Ernest Lemoyne	47
56	1961	Dr. Kildare	Ben Laney	55
57	1961	Dr. Kildare	Peter De Gravio	55
58	1961	The New Breed	Crafts	70
59	1962	The Virginian	Colonel John Briscoe	65
60	1962	The Virginian	Mike McCormick	65
61	1962	The Virginian	Pa McRae	65
62	1962	The Nurses	Dr. Anson Kiley	50
63	1962	Stoney Burke		57
64	1963	The Dakotas		57
65	1963	The Fugitive	George Savano	72
66	1963	The Fugitive	Josh Kovaks	72
67	1963	The Fugitive	Angstrom	72
68	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Captain Sloane	57
69	1964	Daniel Boone	Seth Jennings	69
70	1965	Run for Your Life	Colonel Delaney	72
71	1965	Laredo		63
72	1965	The Wild Wild West	Colonel Roper	75
73	1965	The Loner	Manet	57
74	1965	The F.B.I.	Bill Hollis	55
75	1965	The F.B.I.	Barney Simms	55
76	1966	Blue Light		50
77	1966	Tarzan		67
78	1967	Captain Nice		57
79	1967	Ironside	Charlie Culver	68
80	1967	Judd for the Defense		75
81	1968	It Takes a Thief	Wally Powers	70
82	1968	It Takes a Thief	Wallie Powers	70
83	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Mills	71
84	1970	McCloud		71
85	1970	The Bold Ones: The Senator	Arthur Beresford	30
86	1971	Cannon		65
87	1972	The Brian Keith Show		50
88	1972	MAS*H	General Korshak	79
89	1973	Police Story		69
90	1974	The Manhunter		50
91	1974	The Rockford Files	Everet Alton Benson	75
92	1974	Police Woman	John Solvana	63
93	1976	Alice		71
94	1977	Lucan		60
95	1985	The Equalizer	Father Martin O'Donohugh	72

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