1916-09-12 ( 108 years old ) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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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.
Movies
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
2020-01-28
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
2000-10-31
After School
1988-09-01
The Verdict
1982-12-08
The Pilot
1980-11-26
F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980-05-15
The Murder That Wouldn't Die
1980-03-09
The Man You Loved to Hate
1979-08-19
The Power Within
1979-05-11
Stubby Pringle's Christmas
1978-12-17
Oliver's Story
1978-12-15
Just an Old Sweet Song
1976-09-25
Diary of the Dead
1976-01-01
Night Moves
1975-06-11
Lovin' Molly
1974-04-14
Hunter
1973-01-09
Fireball Forward
1972-03-05
Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones
1971-10-04
The Sheriff
1971-03-30
The Tell-Tale Heart
1971-01-01
Patton
1970-01-25
Chubasco
1968-04-14
The Price of a Life
1967-01-01
The Americanization of Emily
1964-10-27
Fail Safe
1964-10-07
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
1962-07-25
A Public Affair
1962-03-03
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961-12-18
Desire in the Dust
1960-10-10
Heller in Pink Tights
1960-03-01
North by Northwest
1959-07-08
The Man in the Net
1959-06-10
Curse of the Undead
1959-05-01
Compulsion
1959-04-01
Young and Dangerous
1957-10-30
Portland Exposé
1957-08-11
12 Angry Men
1957-04-10
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
1956-09-13
The Scarlet Hour
1956-04-01
Patterns
1956-03-27
Tragedy in a Temporary Town
1956-02-19
Vice Squad
1953-07-31
Without Warning!
1952-05-08
Teresa
1951-04-05
Halls of Montezuma
1951-01-04
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