1. Edward Binns had a wide-spanning career in film and television, often portraying competent, hard working and purposeful characters in his various roles.
15 Facts About Edward Binns
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Edward Binns is best known for his work in such acclaimed films as 12 Angry Men, North by Northwest, Judgment at Nuremberg, Fail Safe, The Americanization of Emily, Patton and The Verdict.
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Edward Binns graduated from the Pennsylvania State University in 1937.
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Edward Binns followed that with a year as actor and director of the Pan-American Theatre in Mexico City.
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One of the first members of the newly formed Actors Studio, Edward Binns began studying with Elia Kazan in late 1947.
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Edward Binns was featured as a police detective in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest and played a key role as bomber pilot Colonel Grady in Fail-Safe.
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Edward Binns starred as Lieutenant Roy Brenner in Brenner, a crime drama on CBS.
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Edward Binns was cast in CBS's Richard Diamond, Private Detective, The Investigators and Thriller.
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Edward Binns appeared as Colonel Robert Baldwin with June Allyson as his screen wife in the 1961 episode "Without Fear" of Allyson's CBS anthology series, The DuPont Show with June Allyson.
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Edward Binns appeared twice on The Twilight Zone, first in a leading role as Colonel Donlin in the episode "I Shot an Arrow into the Air" and then in a supporting role as General Walters in the episode "The Long Morrow".
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Edward Binns portrayed a marine biologist obsessed with a whale in the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episode "The Ghost of Moby Dick".
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Edward Binns was a cast member of CBS's The Nurses from 1962 through 1964.
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Edward Binns appeared in an episode of the ABC espionage drama Blue Light early in 1966, and in ABC's It Takes a Thief with Robert Wagner.
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Edward Binns appeared in the season 5 finale of Hawaii Five-O in 1973.
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Edward Binns died of a heart attack at the age of 74 while traveling from New York City to his home in Connecticut.