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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.

'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
as Self (archive footage)

Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
as Self (archive footage)

After School
as Monsignor Frank Barrett

The Equalizer
as Father Martin O'Donohugh

The Verdict
as Bishop Brophy

The Pilot
as Larry Zanoff

F.D.R.: The Last Year
as General 'Pa' Watson

The Murder That Wouldn't Die
as Allan Battles

The Man You Loved to Hate
as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Power Within
as Gen. Tom Darrow

Stubby Pringle's Christmas
as Red

Oliver's Story
as Phil Cavilleri

Lucan

Just an Old Sweet Song
as Mr. Claypool

Alice

Diary of the Dead
as Mr. McNulty

Night Moves
as Joey Ziegler

The Rockford Files
as Everet Alton Benson

Police Woman
as John Solvana

The Manhunter

Lovin' Molly
as Mr. Frye

The First Woman President
as Joe Tumulty

Police Story

Hunter
as Owen Larkdale

M*A*S*H
as General Korshak

The Brian Keith Show

Fireball Forward
as Corps Commander

Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones
as Pedro

Cannon

The Sheriff
as Paulsen

The Tell-Tale Heart

The Bold Ones: The Senator
as Arthur Beresford

McCloud

Patton
as Major General Walter Bedell Smith

Hawaii Five-O
as Mills

The Name of the Game
as Dan Borden

Chubasco
as Judge North

It Takes a Thief
as Wally Powers

Judd, for the Defense

Ironside
as Charlie Culver

This Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is The Massage
as Narration

Captain Nice

The Price of a Life
as Narrator

Tarzan

The Plainsman
as Lattimer

Blue Light

The F.B.I.
as Bill Hollis

The Loner
as Manet

The Wild Wild West
as Colonel Roper

Laredo

Run for Your Life
as Colonel Delaney

The Americanization of Emily
as Admiral Thomas Healy

Fail Safe
as Col. Jack Grady

Daniel Boone
as Seth Jennings
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as Captain Sloane

The Fugitive
as George Savano

The Dakotas

Stoney Burke

The Nurses
as Dr. Anson Kiley

The Virginian
as Colonel John Briscoe