
Edward Binns
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Biography
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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

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The F.B.I.

The Twilight Zone

The Virginian

Perry Mason

General Electric Theater

Ironside

Studio One

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Lux Video Theatre

Dr. Kildare

Hawaii Five-O

Cannon

Police Story

Climax!

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Have Gun, Will Travel

The Rockford Files

The Philco Television Playhouse

Police Woman

Wagon Train

Gunsmoke

The Fugitive

Thriller

McCloud

The Equalizer

Suspense

The Defenders

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Omnibus

M*A*S*H

Daniel Boone

Alice

M Squad

Route 66

Checkmate

Letter to Loretta

Matinee Theater

Telephone Time

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

Cain's Hundred

Laredo

Tarzan

The Manhunter

The Wild Wild West

Outlaws

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

The Thin Man

The Loner

Kraft Television Theatre

The Aquanauts

Alcoa Theatre

The Bold Ones: The Senator

The Brian Keith Show

Captain Nice

Patton

North by Northwest

Judgment at Nuremberg

Teresa

Heller in Pink Tights

The Scarlet Hour

Run for Your Life

The Pilot

12 Angry Men

Robert Montgomery Presents

Oliver's Story

Hunter

The Nurses

Brenner
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