Edward Binns
Age: 74 | From: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1916-09-12 14:12:44
Death: 1990-12-04 14:12:44
Aliases: Ed Binns , Eddie Binns , Edwards Binns , Edwared Binns
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 43
TV Involvements: 46
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
Robert Montgomery Presents
(1950) Dan Thompson
Climax!
(1954) Lieutenant Lewis
Hawaii Five-O
(1968) Mills
The Twilight Zone
(1959) General Walters
Thriller
(1960) Lt. Giddeon
Studio One
(1948) Joe Doyle
The Virginian
(1962) Pa McRae
M Squad
(1957) Wally GardnerActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2000 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1988 | Monsignor Frank Barrett | |
| 1985 | Father Martin O'Donohugh | |
| 1982 | Bishop Brophy | |
| 1980 | Larry Zanoff | |
| General 'Pa' Watson | ||
| Allan Battles | ||
| 1979 | Himself - Narrator (voice) | |
| Gen. Tom Darrow | ||
| 1978 | Red | |
| Phil Cavilleri | ||
| 1977 | N/A | |
| 1976 | Mr. Claypool | |
| N/A | ||
| Mr. McNulty | ||
| 1975 | Joey Ziegler | |
| 1974 | N/A | |
| Everet Alton Benson | ||
| N/A | ||
| Mr. Frye | ||
| 1973 | N/A | |
| 1972 | General Korshak | |
| N/A | ||
| Corps Commander | ||
| 1971 | N/A | |
| Paulsen | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1970 | N/A | |
| Major General Walter Bedell Smith | ||
| 1968 | Mills | |
| Judge North | ||
| Wally Powers | ||
| 1967 | N/A | |
| Charlie Culver | ||
| Narration | ||
| N/A | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 1966 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| 1965 | Bill Hollis | |
| Barney Simms | ||
| Manet | ||
| Colonel Roper | ||
| N/A | ||
| Colonel Delaney | ||
| 1964 | Admiral Thomas Healy | |
| Col. Jack Grady | ||
| Seth Jennings | ||
| 1963 | N/A | |
| Josh Kovaks | ||
| George Savano | ||
| Angstrom | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1962 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Colonel John Briscoe | ||
| Mike McCormick | ||
| Pa McRae | ||
| Brakeman | ||
| Sen. Fred Baines | ||
| 1961 | Senator Burkette | |
| Crafts | ||
| Ben Laney | ||
| Peter De Gravio | ||
| Capt. Ernest Lemoyne | ||
| Victor Fergusson | ||
| District Attorney Wolf | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1960 | Luke Connett | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Harl Stoner | ||
| Ed Barron | ||
| Lt. Giddeon | ||
| Sheriff Ed McClain | ||
| 1959 | N/A | |
| Bob Donlin | ||
| General Walters | ||
| Colonel Baldwin | ||
| Captain Junket | ||
| State Police Capt. Green | ||
| N/A | ||
| Sheriff | ||
| Tom Daly | ||
| Fred Graham | ||
| 1958 | N/A | |
| 1957 | Dr. Price | |
| Lloyd Castle | ||
| Charles Griffin | ||
| N/A | ||
| Wally Gardner | ||
| N/A | ||
| George Madison | ||
| Lieutenant Larrabee | ||
| Juror 6 | ||
| Captain Posen | ||
| 1956 | Abel McHugh | |
| Sam Tompkins | ||
| Frederick Walden | ||
| Lt. Kennedy | ||
| N/A | ||
| Sgt. Allen | ||
| Elevator Starter | ||
| Anderson | ||
| 1955 | N/A | |
| Mr. Brown | ||
| N/A | ||
| Bill Strapp | ||
| 1954 | Lieutenant Lewis | |
| N/A | ||
| 1953 | Governor Jim Pierson | |
| Al Barkis | ||
| Harry Wilson | ||
| 1952 | Lt. Pete Hamilton | |
| 1951 | N/A | |
| Red | ||
| N/A | ||
| Daniels | ||
| Sgt. Brown | ||
| First Soldier in Final Tracking Shot (uncredited) | ||
| 1950 | Silas | |
| Prosecutor | ||
| N/A | ||
| Dan Thompson | ||
| 1949 | N/A | |
| 1948 | Joe Doyle | |
| N/A | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
