Personal Info
Birth date
1916-09-12 (108 Years)
Day of death
1990-12-04
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Also known as
Ed Binns
Eddie Binns
Edwards Binns
Edwared Binns
Edward Binns
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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
Robert Montgomery Presents
5.6
Overview:
Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on.Matinee Theater
5
Overview:
Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was frequently live. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays staged with minimal sets. Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse recalled: When Al McCleery got back to the States, he originated a most ambitious theatrical TV series for NBC called Matinee Theater: to televise five different stage plays per week live, airing around noon in order to promote color TV to the American housewife as she labored over her ironing. Al was the producer. He hired five directors and five art directors. Richard Bennett, one of our first early presidents of the Pewter Plough Corporation, was one of the directors and I was one of the art directors and, as soon as we were through televising one play, we had lunch and then met to plan next week’s show. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and simply decorating the scene with a minimum of props. It took a bit of ingenuity.Wagon Train
6.3
Overview:
The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.The Equalizer
7.2
Overview:
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.Have Gun, Will Travel
7.4
Overview:
Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
5.5
Overview:
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.The Rockford Files
7.5
Overview:
Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockford takes on cases others don't want, aided by his tough old man, his lawyer girlfriend and some shady associates from his past.M*A*S*H
7.911
Overview:
The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in, they are forced to make their own fun. Fond of practical jokes and revenge, the doctors, nurses, administrators, and soldiers often find ways of making wartime life bearable.Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
5.714
Overview:
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.Perry Mason
7.7
Overview:
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.Hawaii Five-O
7.1
Overview:
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".The Wild Wild West
7.5
Overview:
The Wild Wild West is an American television series. Developed at a time when the television western was losing ground to the spy genre, this show was conceived by its creator, Michael Garrison, as "James Bond on horseback." Set during the administration of President Ulysses Grant, the series followed Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon as they solved crimes, protected the President, and foiled the plans of megalomaniacal villains to take over all or part of the United States. The show also featured a number of fantasy elements, such as the technologically advanced devices used by the agents and their adversaries. The combination of the Victorian era time-frame and the use of Verne-esque style technology have inspired some to give the show credit for the origins of the steam punk subculture.The Rifleman
7
Overview:
The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black-and-white, half-hour episodes. "The Rifleman" aired on ABC from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963 as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first prime time series to have a widowed parent raise a child.The Philco Television Playhouse
6.286
Overview:
The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.Dr. Kildare
5.5
Overview:
The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.The F.B.I.
5.5
Overview:
The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.The Twilight Zone
8.447
Overview:
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.Studio One
5
Overview:
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.Ironside
6.8
Overview:
When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.Route 66
6.3
Overview:
After discovering that his late father has gone through most of the family fortune, Tod Stiles hits the title trans-America highway in his Corvette in search of adventure with friend Buz Murdock, a survivor of New York's mean streets. The two work odd jobs as they meet and interact with colorful characters and find themselves plunged into one situation after another, some of them romantic, some of them very dangerous. Later, Linc Case, a Vietnam war hero trying to find himself, takes over as Tod's travel companion.Cannon
6.5
Overview:
Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976. The primary protagonist is the title character, private detective Frank Cannon, played by William Conrad. He also appeared on two episodes of Barnaby Jones. Cannon is the first Quinn Martin-produced series to be aired on a network other than ABC. A "revival" television film, The Return of Frank Cannon, was aired on November 1, 1980. In total, there were 124 episodes.Climax!
3.273
Overview:
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.Alice
7.036
Overview:
Alice is an American sitcom television series that ran from August 31, 1976 to March 19, 1985 on CBS. The series is based on the 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. The show stars Linda Lavin in the title role, a widow who moves with her young son to start her life over again, and finds a job working at a roadside diner on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona. Most of the episodes revolve around events at Mel's Diner.Richard Diamond, Private Detective
6.2
Overview:
Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960.The Defenders
6.2
Overview:
The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.Daniel Boone
6.9
Overview:
Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.Thriller
6.417
Overview:
Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.Police Woman
6.2
Overview:
Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover from mob girl to prostitute.Acting
2020'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War as Self (archive footage)
2000Revisiting 'Fail-Safe' as Self (archive footage)
1988After School as Monsignor Frank Barrett
1985The Equalizer (1 Episode) as Father Martin O'Donohugh
1982The Verdict as Bishop Brophy
1980The Pilot as Larry Zanoff
1980F.D.R.: The Last Year as General 'Pa' Watson
1980The Murder That Wouldn't Die as Allan Battles
1979The Man You Loved to Hate as Self - Narrator (voice)
1979The Power Within as Gen. Tom Darrow
1978Stubby Pringle's Christmas as Red
1978Oliver's Story as Phil Cavilleri
1977Lucan (1 Episode) as Unknown
1976Just an Old Sweet Song as Mr. Claypool
1976Alice (1 Episode) as Unknown
1976Diary of the Dead as Mr. McNulty
1975Night Moves as Joey Ziegler
1974The Rockford Files (1 Episode) as Everet Alton Benson
1974Police Woman (1 Episode) as John Solvana
1974The Manhunter (1 Episode) as Unknown
1974Lovin' Molly as Mr. Frye
1973Police Story (1 Episode) as Unknown
1973Hunter as Owen Larkdale
1972M*A*S*H (1 Episode) as General Korshak
1972The Brian Keith Show (1 Episode) as Unknown
1972Fireball Forward as Corps Commander
1971Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones as Pedro
1971Cannon (1 Episode) as Unknown
1971The Sheriff as Paulsen
1971The Tell-Tale Heart as Unknown
1970The Bold Ones: The Senator (1 Episode) as Arthur Beresford
1970McCloud (1 Episode) as Unknown
1970Patton as Major General Walter Bedell Smith
1968Hawaii Five-O (1 Episode) as Mills
1968Chubasco as Judge North
1968It Takes a Thief (3, 24 Episode) as Wally Powers, Wallie Powers
1967Judd for the Defense (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1967Ironside (1 Episode) as Charlie Culver
1967This Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is The Massage as Narration
1967Captain Nice (1 Episode) as Unknown
1967The Price of a Life as Narrator
1966Tarzan (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1966Blue Light (1 Episode) as Unknown
1965The F.B.I. (1, 1 Episode) as Bill Hollis, Barney Simms
1965The Loner (1 Episode) as Manet
1965The Wild Wild West (1 Episode) as Colonel Roper
1965Laredo (1 Episode) as Unknown
1965Run for Your Life (1 Episode) as Colonel Delaney
1964The Americanization of Emily as Admiral Thomas Healy
1964Fail Safe as Col. Jack Grady
1964Daniel Boone (1 Episode) as Seth Jennings
1963Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1 Episode) as Captain Sloane
1963The Fugitive (1, 1, 1 Episode) as George Savano, Josh Kovaks, Angstrom
1963The Dakotas (1 Episode) as Unknown
1962Stoney Burke (1 Episode) as Unknown
1962The Nurses (97 Episodes) as Dr. Anson Kiley
1962The Virginian (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Colonel John Briscoe, Mike McCormick, Pa McRae
1962Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man as Brakeman
1962A Public Affair as Sen. Fred Baines
1961Judgment at Nuremberg as Senator Burkette
1961The New Breed (1 Episode) as Crafts
1961Dr. Kildare (1, 3 Episode) as Ben Laney, Peter De Gravio
1961Cain's Hundred (1 Episode) as Capt. Ernest Lemoyne
1961The Defenders (1, 3 Episode) as Victor Fergusson, District Attorney Wolf
1961The Asphalt Jungle (1 Episode) as Unknown
1960Desire in the Dust as Luke Connett
1960Route 66 (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1960Outlaws (1 Episode) as Unknown
1960Checkmate (1 Episode) as Harl Stoner
1960The Aquanauts (1 Episode) as Ed Barron
1960Thriller (1 Episode) as Lt. Giddeon
1960Heller in Pink Tights as Sheriff Ed McClain
1959The Detectives (1 Episode) as Unknown
1959The Untouchables (1 Episode) as Dr. Samuels
1959The Twilight Zone (1, 1 Episode) as Bob Donlin, General Walters
1959The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1 Episode) as Colonel Baldwin
1959North by Northwest as Captain Junket
1959The Man in the Net as State Police Capt. Green
1959Brenner (17 Episodes) as Unknown
1959Curse of the Undead as Sheriff
1959Compulsion as Tom Daly
1959One Step Beyond (1 Episode) as Fred Graham
1958The Rifleman (1 Episode) as Unknown
1957Young and Dangerous as Dr. Price
1957Alcoa Theatre (1, 1 Episode) as Captain Posen, Major Robert Fielding
1957Perry Mason (1, 1 Episode) as Lloyd Castle, Charles Griffin
1957The Thin Man (1 Episode) as Unknown
1957M Squad (1 Episode) as Wally Gardner
1957Wagon Train (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Sheriff Bill Strode, Jud Steele, Major Starbuck
1957Have Gun, Will Travel (1 Episode) as Unknown
1957Portland Exposé as George Madison
1957Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1 Episode) as Lieutenant Larrabee
195712 Angry Men as Juror 6
1956Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1, 1 Episode) as Abel McHugh, Sam Tompkins
1956State Trooper (1, 1 Episode) as Frederick Walden, Harley Bender
1956Beyond a Reasonable Doubt as Lt. Kennedy
1956Telephone Time (1 Episode) as Unknown
1956The Scarlet Hour as Sgt. Allen
1956Patterns as Elevator Starter
1956Tragedy in a Temporary Town as Anderson
1955Matinee Theater (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1 Episode) as Mr. Brown
1955Navy Log (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1955Gunsmoke (1 Episode) as Bill Strapp
1954Climax! (1 Episode) as Lieutenant Lewis
1954Inner Sanctum (4 Episodes) as Unknown
1953Letter to Loretta (1 Episode) as Governor Jim Pierson
1953Vice Squad as Al Barkis
1953General Electric Theater (1 Episode) as Harry Wilson
1952Omnibus (1, 2 Episode) as Bitter ex-beau, Unknown
1952Without Warning! as Lt. Pete Hamilton
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (2, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Red
1951Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Daniels
1951Teresa as Sgt. Brown
1951Halls of Montezuma as First Soldier in Final Tracking Shot (uncredited)
1950Lux Video Theatre (1, 1 Episode) as Silas, Prosecutor
1950Robert Montgomery Presents (1, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Dan Thompson
1949Suspense (3 Episodes) as Unknown
1948Studio One (1 Episode) as Joe Doyle
1948The Philco Television Playhouse (3 Episodes) as Unknown
1947Kraft Television Theatre (2 Episodes) as Unknown