Edward Binns
Acting • Born 1916-09-12 – Died 1990-12-04
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 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
145 credits
North by Northwest
Movie • 1959
Captain Junket
Fail Safe
Movie • 1964
Col. Jack Grady
Judgment at Nuremberg
Movie • 1961
Senator Burkette
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Movie • 1956
Lt. Kennedy
Patton
Movie • 1970
Major General Walter Bedell Smith
The Verdict
Movie • 1982
Bishop Brophy
Night Moves
Movie • 1975
Joey Ziegler
Without Warning!
Movie • 1952
Lt. Pete Hamilton
Compulsion
Movie • 1959
Tom Daly
The Americanization of Emily
Movie • 1964
Admiral Thomas Healy
Heller in Pink Tights
Movie • 1960
Sheriff Ed McClain
Portland Exposé
Movie • 1957
George Madison
The Man in the Net
Movie • 1959
State Police Capt. Green
The Scarlet Hour
Movie • 1956
Sgt. Allen
Vice Squad
Movie • 1953
Al Barkis
The Pilot
Movie • 1980
Larry Zanoff
This Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is The Massage
Movie • 1967
Narration
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
Movie • 2000
Self (archive footage)
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Curse of the Undead
Movie • 1959
Sheriff
Oliver's Story
Movie • 1978
Phil Cavilleri
Young and Dangerous
Movie • 1957
Dr. Price
Lovin' Molly
Movie • 1974
Mr. Frye
Teresa
Movie • 1951
Sgt. Brown
After School
Movie • 1988
Monsignor Frank Barrett
The Man You Loved to Hate
Movie • 1979
Self - Narrator (voice)
Chubasco
Movie • 1968
Judge North
The Murder That Wouldn't Die
Movie • 1980
Allan Battles
Halls of Montezuma
Movie • 1951
First Soldier in Final Tracking Shot (uncredited)
A Public Affair
Movie • 1962
Sen. Fred Baines
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie • 1971
The Price of a Life
Movie • 1967
Narrator
F.D.R.: The Last Year
Movie • 1980
General 'Pa' Watson
Desire in the Dust
Movie • 1960
Luke Connett
Stubby Pringle's Christmas
Movie • 1978
Red
Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones
Movie • 1971
Pedro
Tragedy in a Temporary Town
Movie • 1956
Anderson
The Sheriff
Movie • 1971
Paulsen
The Power Within
Movie • 1979
Gen. Tom Darrow
Just an Old Sweet Song
Movie • 1976
Mr. Claypool
Diary of the Dead
Movie • 1976
Mr. McNulty
12 Angry Men
Movie • 1957
Juror 6
Fireball Forward
Movie • 1972
Corps Commander
Patterns
Movie • 1956
Elevator Starter
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
Movie • 1962
Brakeman
Hunter
Movie • 1973
Owen Larkdale
The Plainsman
Movie • 1966
Lattimer
The First Woman President
Movie • 1974
Joe Tumulty
Alice
TV • 1976
M*A*S*H
TV • 1972
General Korshak
Cain's Hundred
TV • 1961
Capt. Ernest Lemoyne
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Bill Hollis
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Mills
Route 66
TV • 1960
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Bill Strapp
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Lloyd Castle
Studio One
TV • 1948
Joe Doyle
The Equalizer
TV • 1985
Father Martin O'Donohugh
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Harry Wilson
Cannon
TV • 1971
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Bob Donlin
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
General Walters
Laredo
TV • 1965
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Mr. Brown
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
George Savano
Outlaws
TV • 1960
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
Run for Your Life
TV • 1965
Colonel Delaney
Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Seth Jennings
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Josh Kovaks
Police Story
TV • 1973
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Colonel John Briscoe
Thriller
TV • 1960
Lt. Giddeon
Lucan
TV • 1977
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Silas
The Aquanauts
TV • 1960
Ed Barron
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
McCloud
TV • 1970
The Thin Man
TV • 1957
One Step Beyond
TV • 1959
Fred Graham
Climax!
TV • 1954
Lieutenant Lewis
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
TV • 1957
Lieutenant Larrabee
M Squad
TV • 1957
Wally Gardner
Judd for the Defense
TV • 1967
Matinee Theater
TV • 1955
Tarzan
TV • 1966
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
Navy Log
TV • 1955
The Rifleman
TV • 1958
The Dakotas
TV • 1963
Alcoa Theatre
TV • 1957
Captain Posen
Captain Nice
TV • 1967
The New Breed
TV • 1961
Crafts
The Brian Keith Show
TV • 1972
The Detectives
TV • 1959
The Nurses
TV • 1962
Dr. Anson Kiley
Suspense
TV • 1949
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
The Manhunter
TV • 1974
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Abel McHugh
Inner Sanctum
TV • 1954
Stoney Burke
TV • 1962
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Ben Laney
Telephone Time
TV • 1956
The Defenders
TV • 1961
Victor Fergusson
The Defenders
TV • 1961
District Attorney Wolf
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
TV • 1959
Colonel Baldwin
Brenner
TV • 1959
Roy Brenner
The Asphalt Jungle
TV • 1961
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Governor Jim Pierson
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Angstrom
Blue Light
TV • 1966
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Prosecutor
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Peter De Gravio
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Barney Simms
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Mike McCormick
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Pa McRae
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Daniels
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Sam Tompkins
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Dan Thompson
State Trooper
TV • 1956
Frederick Walden
Checkmate
TV • 1960
Harl Stoner
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Charles Griffin
The Wild Wild West
TV • 1965
Colonel Roper
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Red
It Takes a Thief
TV • 1968
Wally Powers
Ironside
TV • 1967
Charlie Culver
The Loner
TV • 1965
Manet
The Rockford Files
TV • 1974
Everet Alton Benson
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Sheriff Bill Strode
The Untouchables
TV • 1959
Dr. Samuels
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Jud Steele
Kraft Television Theatre
TV • 1947
Police Woman
TV • 1974
John Solvana
Alcoa Theatre
TV • 1957
Major Robert Fielding
The Bold Ones: The Senator
TV • 1970
Arthur Beresford
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV • 1963
Captain Sloane
Omnibus
TV • 1952
Bitter ex-beau
Omnibus
TV • 1952
State Trooper
TV • 1956
Harley Bender
It Takes a Thief
TV • 1968
Wallie Powers
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Major Starbuck
The Investigators
TV • 1961
Jim Corbin
The Name of the Game
TV • 1968
Dan Borden