Edward Binns

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Edward Binns September 12 1916 December 4 1990 was an American stage film and television actor He had a widespanning 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 Awardwinning film Patton 1970 Binns featured in Alfred Hitchcocks North by Northwest as a police detective He played a key role as bomber pilot Colonel Grady in the 1964 film FailSafe Binns also appeared in dozens of television programs including NBCs legal drama Justice Rod Camerons syndicated State Trooper the syndicated adventure series Whirlybirds the ABCWarner Brotherswestern series The Dakotas the ABC rodeo drama Stoney Burke and ABCs war drama 12 OClock High He was cast in CBSs Richard Diamond Private Detective as Larrabee in the 1958 episode Pension Plan The Investigators and Thriller US TV series Binns appeared as Colonel Robert Baldwin with June Allyson as his screen wife Eleanor Baldwin in the 1961 episode Without Fear of Allysons 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 Serlings The Twilight Zone in the 1960 episode I Shot an Arrow into the Air Binns also appeared in two episodes of ABCs The Untouchables as gunman Steve Ballard and in a later episode as a doctor He was a cast member of CBSs The Nurses from 1962 through 1964 He appeared in an episode of the ABC espionage drama Blue Light early in 1966 and in ABCs It Takes a Thief 19691970 with Robert Wagner Binns also appeared in one episode of the ABC series A Man Called Shenandoah with Robert Horton as General Korshak on CBSs MASH in an episode of NBCs The Brian Keith Show and in three episodes of ABCs 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 seventyfour while traveling from New York City to his home inConnecticut His ashes were scattered at his residence