Edward Binns

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

Binns was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. One of the first members of New York's newly formed Actors Studio, Binns studied with Elia Kazan, starting in 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 (the painter) in 12 Angry Men and Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith in the Academy Award-winning film Patton (1970).

Binns was in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest as a police detective. He played a major role as Vindicator 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, ABC's war drama 12 O'Clock High, CBS's Perry Mason, and James Franciscus's 1961 CBS series 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 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 The Untouchables (1963) were he played gunman Steve Ballard and in a later episode as a doctor.

He was a cast member of CBS' The Nurses from 1962 through 1964, and 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, and in an episode of NBC's The Brian Keith Show, and in three episodes of The Fugitive. His distinctive voice was also heard in hundreds of radio and TV commercials as well.

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