Edward Binns
Born
12 September 1916 (109)
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Also known as
Ed Binns, Eddie Binns
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 ear...
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 (40)
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
2020
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
2000
After School
1988
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
Just an Old Sweet Song
1976
Diary of the Dead
1976
Night Moves
1975
Lovin' Molly
1974
The First Woman President
1974
Hunter
1973
Fireball Forward
1972
Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones
1971
The Sheriff
1971
The Tell-Tale Heart
1971
Patton
1970
Chubasco
1968
This Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is The Massage
1967
The Price of a Life
1967
The Plainsman
1966
The Americanization of Emily
1964
Fail Safe
1964
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
1962
A Public Affair
1962
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961
Desire in the Dust
1960
Heller in Pink Tights
1960
Curse of the Undead
1959
North by Northwest
1959
The Man in the Net
1959
Compulsion
1959
Young and Dangerous
1957
Portland Exposé
1957
12 Angry Men
1957