Edward Binns
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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Films (48)
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
2020 · Self (archive footage)
After School
1988 · Monsignor Frank Barrett
Whatever it Takes
1986 · Mr. Kingsley
The Verdict
1982 · Bishop Brophy
The Pilot
1980 · Larry Zanoff
F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980 · General 'Pa' Watson
The Murder That Wouldn't Die
1980 · Allan Battles
The Man You Loved to Hate
1979 · Self - Narrator (voice)
The Power Within
1979 · Gen. Tom Darrow
Stubby Pringle's Christmas
1978 · Red
Oliver's Story
1978 · Phil Cavilleri
Just an Old Sweet Song
1976 · Mr. Claypool
Diary of the Dead
1976 · Mr. McNulty
Night Moves
1975 · Joey Ziegler
Lovin' Molly
1974 · Mr. Frye
The First Woman President
1974 · Joe Tumulty
Hunter
1973 · Owen Larkdale
Fireball Forward
1972 · Corps Commander
Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones
1971 · Pedro
The Sheriff
1971 · Paulsen
The Tell-Tale Heart
1971 · Police Officer
Patton
1970 · Major General Walter Bedell Smith
Chubasco
1968 · Judge North
This Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is The Massage
1967 · Narration
The Price of a Life
1967 · Narrator
The Plainsman
1966 · Lattimer
The Americanization of Emily
1964 · Admiral Thomas Healy
Fail Safe
1964 · Col. Jack Grady
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
1962 · Brakeman
A Public Affair
1962 · Sen. Fred Baines
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961 · Senator Burkette
Desire in the Dust
1960 · Luke Connett
Heller in Pink Tights
1960 · Sheriff Ed McClain
Curse of the Undead
1959 · Sheriff
North by Northwest
1959 · Captain Junket
The Man in the Net
1959 · State Police Capt. Green
Compulsion
1959 · Tom Daly
Young and Dangerous
1957 · Dr. Price
Portland Exposé
1957 · George Madison
12 Angry Men
1957 · Juror 6
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
1956 · Lt. Kennedy
The Scarlet Hour
1956 · Sgt. Allen
Patterns
1956 · Elevator Starter
Tragedy in a Temporary Town
1956 · Anderson
Vice Squad
1953 · Al Barkis
Without Warning!
1952 · Lt. Pete Hamilton
Teresa
1951 · Sgt. Brown
Halls of Montezuma
1951 · First Soldier in Final Tracking Shot (uncredited)
Séries (78)
The Equalizer
1985 · Father Martin O'Donohugh
Lucan
1977
Alice
1976
The Rockford Files
1974 · Everet Alton Benson
Police Woman
1974 · John Solvana
The Manhunter
1974
Police Story
1973
M*A*S*H
1972 · General Korshak
The Brian Keith Show
1972
Cannon
1971
The Bold Ones: The Senator
1970 · Arthur Beresford
McCloud
1970
Hawaii Five-O
1969 · Mills
The Name of the Game
1968 · Dan Borden
It Takes a Thief
1968 · Wally Powers, Wallie Powers
Judd, for the Defense
1967
Ironside
1967 · Charlie Culver
Captain Nice
1967
Tarzan
1966
Blue Light
1966
The F.B.I.
1965 · Bill Hollis, Barney Simms
The Loner
1965 · Manet
The Wild Wild West
1965 · Colonel Roper
Laredo
1965
Run for Your Life
1965 · Colonel Delaney
Daniel Boone
1964 · Seth Jennings
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963 · Captain Sloane
The Fugitive
1963 · George Savano, Josh Kovaks, Angstrom
The Dakotas
1963
Stoney Burke
1962
The Nurses
1962 · Dr. Anson Kiley
The Virginian
1962 · Colonel John Briscoe, Mike McCormick, Pa McRae
The Investigators
1961 · Jim Corbin
The New Breed
1961 · Crafts
Dr. Kildare
1961 · Ben Laney, Peter De Gravio
Cain's Hundred
1961 · Capt. Ernest Lemoyne
The Defenders
1961 · Victor Fergusson, District Attorney Wolf
The Asphalt Jungle
1961
Route 66
1960
Outlaws
1960
Checkmate
1960 · Harl Stoner
The Aquanauts
1960 · Ed Barron
Thriller
1960 · Lt. Giddeon
The Detectives
1959
The Untouchables
1959 · Dr. Samuels
The Twilight Zone
1959 · Bob Donlin, General Walters
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959 · Colonel Baldwin
Brenner
1959 · Roy Brenner
One Step Beyond
1959 · Fred Graham
The Rifleman
1958 · Keely Thompson
Alcoa Theatre
1957 · Captain Posen, Major Robert Fielding
Perry Mason
1957 · Lloyd Castle, Charles Griffin
The Thin Man
1957
M Squad
1957 · Wally Gardner
Wagon Train
1957 · Sheriff Bill Strode, Jud Steele, Major Starbuck
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957 · Lieutenant Larrabee
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · Abel McHugh, Sam Tompkins
State Trooper
1956 · Frederick Walden, Harley Bender
Conflict
1956
Telephone Time
1956
Matinee Theater
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Mr. Brown
Navy Log
1955
Gunsmoke
1955 · Bill Strapp
Climax!
1954 · Lieutenant Lewis
Inner Sanctum
1954
Letter to Loretta
1953 · Governor Jim Pierson
General Electric Theater
1953 · Harry Wilson
Omnibus
1952 · Bitter ex-beau
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Red
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · Daniels
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · Silas, Prosecutor
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950 · Dan Thompson
Suspense
1949
Studio One
1948 · Joe Doyle
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
Kraft Television Theatre
1947