Edward Binns

Edward Binns (September 12, 1916 – December 4, 1990) was a stage, film, and television actor.

Binns was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 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 (the painter) in 12 Angry Men and Major General Walter Bedell Smith in the Academy Award-winning film Patton (1970). One small budget, under-rated film was " A Confidential Affair", in which Binns plays a California state investigator, checking into loan frauds in the used car mart. Shot in 1962, it gives a wonderful picture of Los Angeles.

He was also in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest.

Binns also appeared in dozens of television programs including Rod Cameron's syndicated series State Trooper and James Franciscus's 1961 CBS program, The Investigators. He 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. He was a cast member of ABC's It Takes a Thief (1969-1970) with Robert Wagner. Binns also played in one episode of the ABC series A Man Called Shenandoah, with Robert Horton, as General Korshak on CBS's M*A*S*H, and in an episode of NBC's The Brian Keith Show, and in three episodes of The Fugitive.

Binns died from a heart attack at the age of seventy-four while traveling from New York City to his home in Connecticut.

External links

• Edward Binns at the Internet Movie Database
• Edward Binns at Allmovie
• Edward Binns at Find a Grave

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