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Edward Binns

Edward Binns

Actor · 1916 – 1990 · 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.

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  • Movie8.6

    12 Angry Men

    1957 · 10K votes

  • Movie8.0

    North by Northwest

    1959 · 4.6K votes

  • Movie7.4

    Patton

    1969 · 1.3K votes

  • Movie7.5

    The Verdict

    1982 · 767 votes

  • Movie8.0

    Judgment at Nuremberg

    1961 · 988 votes

  • Movie7.8

    Fail Safe

    1964 · 498 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Night Moves

    1975 · 376 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

    1956 · 130 votes

  • Movie7.1

    Compulsion

    1959 · 173 votes

  • Movie6.7
  • Movie4.9

    Lovin' Molly

    1974 · 8 votes

  • Movie4.8

    Oliver's Story

    1978 · 31 votes

  • Movie5.6
  • Movie5.9

    Halls of Montezuma

    1951 · 43 votes

  • Movie5.2

    The Man in the Net

    1959 · 20 votes

  • Movie7.1

    Diary of the Dead

    1976 · 8 votes

  • Movie5.5

    Curse of the Undead

    1959 · 38 votes

  • Movie5.6

    The Plainsman

    1966 · 7 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Heller in Pink Tights

    1960 · 32 votes

  • Movie7.2

    Patterns

    1956 · 57 votes

  • Movie6.9

    F.D.R.: The Last Year

    1980 · 4 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie6.1

    Vice Squad

    1953 · 27 votes

  • Movie5.3

    The Scarlet Hour

    1956 · 24 votes

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  • TV7.7

    Perry Mason

    1957 · 139 votes

  • TV6.8

    Ironside

    1967 · 71 votes

  • TV5.7

    Dr. Kildare

    1961 · 19 votes

  • TV7.1

    The Rifleman

    1958 · 54 votes

  • TV7.6

    The Rockford Files

    1974 · 133 votes

  • TV7.9

    M*A*S*H

    1972 · 769 votes

  • TV7.3

    The Fugitive

    1963 · 63 votes

  • TV7.1

    The Equalizer

    1985 · 69 votes

  • TV6.6

    Wagon Train

    1957 · 31 votes

  • TV7.2

    Hawaii Five-O

    1969 · 164 votes

  • TV7.0

    Daniel Boone

    1964 · 34 votes

  • TV7.0

    Alice

    1976 · 63 votes

  • TV5.3

    Matinee Theater

    1955 · 7 votes

  • TV6.0
  • TV7.3

    Have Gun, Will Travel

    1957 · 44 votes

  • TV8.5

    The Twilight Zone

    1959 · 1.1K votes

  • TV7.8

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    1955 · 265 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Name of the Game

    1968 · 13 votes

  • TV5.9
  • TV5.7

    One Step Beyond

    1959 · 15 votes

  • TV6.3

    The Defenders

    1961 · 11 votes

  • TV6.7

    Cannon

    1971 · 41 votes

  • TV6.5

    The Virginian

    1962 · 35 votes

  • TV7.1

    Run for Your Life

    1965 · 7 votes