Acting · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA · Born September 12, 1916
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.
Movie'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
2020
as Self (archive footage)
MovieAfter School
1988
as Monsignor Frank Barrett
MovieWhatever it Takes
1986
as Mr. Kingsley
TVThe Equalizer
1985
as Father Martin O'Donohugh
MovieThe Verdict
1982
as Bishop Brophy
MovieThe Pilot
1980
as Larry Zanoff
MovieF.D.R.: The Last Year
1980
as General 'Pa' Watson
MovieThe Murder That Wouldn't Die
1980
as Allan Battles
MovieThe Man You Loved to Hate
1979
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MovieThe Power Within
1979
as Gen. Tom Darrow
MovieStubby Pringle's Christmas
1978
as Red
MovieOliver's Story
1978
as Phil Cavilleri
TVLucan
1977
MovieJust an Old Sweet Song
1976
as Mr. Claypool
TVAlice
1976
MovieDiary of the Dead
1976
as Mr. McNulty
MovieNight Moves
1975
as Joey Ziegler
TVThe Rockford Files
1974
as Everet Alton Benson
TVPolice Woman
1974
as John Solvana
TVThe Manhunter
1974
MovieLovin' Molly
1974
as Mr. Frye
MovieThe First Woman President
1974
as Joe Tumulty
TVPolice Story
1973
MovieHunter
1973
as Owen Larkdale
TVM*A*S*H
1972
as General Korshak
TVThe Brian Keith Show
1972
MovieFireball Forward
1972
as Corps Commander
MovieTarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones
1971
as Pedro
TVCannon
1971
MovieThe Sheriff
1971
as Paulsen
MovieThe Tell-Tale Heart
1971
TVThe Bold Ones: The Senator
1970
as Arthur Beresford
TVMcCloud
1970
MoviePatton
1970
as Major General Walter Bedell Smith
TVHawaii Five-O
1968
as Mills
TVThe Name of the Game
1968
as Dan Borden
MovieChubasco
1968
as Judge North
TVIt Takes a Thief
1968
as Wally Powers
TVJudd, for the Defense
1967
TVIronside
1967
as Charlie Culver
MovieThis Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is The Massage
1967
as Narration
TVCaptain Nice
1967
MovieThe Price of a Life
1967
as Narrator
TVTarzan
1966
MovieThe Plainsman
1966
as Lattimer
TVBlue Light
1966
TVThe F.B.I.
1965
as Bill Hollis
TVThe Loner
1965
as Manet
TVThe Wild Wild West
1965
as Colonel Roper
TVLaredo
1965
TVRun for Your Life
1965
as Colonel Delaney
MovieThe Americanization of Emily
1964
as Admiral Thomas Healy
MovieFail Safe
1964
as Col. Jack Grady
TVDaniel Boone
1964
as Seth Jennings
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
as Captain Sloane
TVThe Fugitive
1963
as George Savano
TVThe Dakotas
1963
TVStoney Burke
1962
TVThe Nurses
1962
as Dr. Anson Kiley
TVThe Virginian
1962
as Colonel John Briscoe
MovieHemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
1962
as Brakeman
MovieA Public Affair
1962
as Sen. Fred Baines
MovieJudgment at Nuremberg
1961
as Senator Burkette
TVThe Investigators
1961
as Jim Corbin
TVThe New Breed
1961
as Crafts
TVDr. Kildare
1961
as Ben Laney
TVCain's Hundred
1961
as Capt. Ernest Lemoyne
TVThe Defenders
1961
as Victor Fergusson
TVThe Asphalt Jungle
1961
MovieDesire in the Dust
1960
as Luke Connett
TVRoute 66
1960
TVOutlaws
1960
TVCheckmate
1960
as Harl Stoner
TVThe Aquanauts
1960
as Ed Barron
TVThriller
1960
as Lt. Giddeon
MovieHeller in Pink Tights
1960
as Sheriff Ed McClain
MovieCurse of the Undead
1959
as Sheriff
TVThe Detectives
1959
TVThe Untouchables
1959
as Dr. Samuels
TVThe Twilight Zone
1959
as Bob Donlin
TVThe DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
as Colonel Baldwin
MovieNorth by Northwest
1959
as Captain Junket
MovieThe Man in the Net
1959
as State Police Capt. Green
TVBrenner
1959
as Roy Brenner
MovieCompulsion
1959
as Tom Daly
TVOne Step Beyond
1959
as Fred Graham
TVThe Rifleman
1958
as Keely Thompson
MovieYoung and Dangerous
1957
as Dr. Price
TVAlcoa Theatre
1957
as Captain Posen
TVPerry Mason
1957
as Lloyd Castle
TVThe Thin Man
1957
TVM Squad
1957
as Wally Gardner
TVWagon Train
1957
as Sheriff Bill Strode
TVHave Gun, Will Travel
1957
MoviePortland Exposé
1957
as George Madison
TVRichard Diamond, Private Detective
1957
as Lieutenant Larrabee
Movie12 Angry Men
1957
as Juror 6
TVDick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Abel McHugh
State Trooper
1956
as Frederick Walden
Conflict
1956
MovieBeyond a Reasonable Doubt
1956
as Lt. Kennedy
TVTelephone Time
1956
MovieThe Scarlet Hour
1956
as Sgt. Allen
MoviePatterns
1956
as Elevator Starter
MovieTragedy in a Temporary Town
1956
as Anderson
TVMatinee Theater
1955
TVAlfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Mr. Brown
TVNavy Log
1955
TVGunsmoke
1955
as Bill Strapp
TVClimax!
1954
as Lieutenant Lewis
TVInner Sanctum
1954
TVLetter to Loretta
1953
as Governor Jim Pierson
MovieVice Squad
1953
as Al Barkis
TVGeneral Electric Theater
1953
as Harry Wilson
TVOmnibus
1952
as Bitter ex-beau
MovieWithout Warning!
1952
as Lt. Pete Hamilton
TVHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
TVSchlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
MovieTeresa
1951
as Sgt. Brown
MovieHalls of Montezuma
1951
as First Soldier in Final Tracking Shot (uncredited)
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Silas
TVRobert Montgomery Presents
1950
TVSuspense
1949
TVStudio One
1948
as Joe Doyle
TVThe Philco Television Playhouse
1948
TVKraft Television Theatre
1947
