Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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, B...
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Complete Filmography
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Film critic J. Hoberman discusses the best-selling 1962 novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler on which "Fail-Safe" is based, along with the perva...
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
2000
as Self (archive footage)
Documentary featuring interviews with director Sidney Lumet, "Fail-Safe" (2000) producer George Clooney, star Dan O’Herlihy and screenwriter Walter Be...
After School
1988
as Monsignor Frank Barrett
A student-teacher relationship goes way beyond the classroom, including pre-historic times.
The Verdict
1982
as Bishop Brophy
Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a m...
The Pilot
1980
as Larry Zanoff
Mike Hagan is a pilot in passenger service and candidate for the honor "Best Pilot of the Year". Nobody knows that he's got private sorrows - he's an ...
F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980
as General 'Pa' Watson
Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term. He also oversees plans for the D-Day Invasio...
The Murder That Wouldn't Die
1980
as Allan Battles
William Conrad stars as a retired L.A.P.D. detective who has moved to Hawaii and taken a job as a college security chief and assistant football coach ...
The Man You Loved to Hate
1979
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Man You Loved To Hate blends revealing interviews, rare photographs, and clips from von Stroheim's legendary and lesser-known works to create a fa...
The Power Within
1979
as Gen. Tom Darrow
A prospective about a daredevil flyer, barnstorming for county fairs, who becomes a human dynamo after being struck by lightning and is menaced by ene...
Stubby Pringle's Christmas
1978
as Red
Ranch hand Stubby Pringle journeys to a Christmas dance, hoping to find his true love, and learns a valuable lesson about the spirit of the holiday al...
Oliver's Story
1978
as Phil Cavilleri
Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries to lose himself in his work as a lawyer, the long hour...
Just an Old Sweet Song
1976
as Mr. Claypool
Upon learning that their grandmother is not long for this world, Nate and Priscilla Simmons pack up their kids and leave Detroit to head down South. E...
Diary of the Dead
1976
as Mr. McNulty
An unemployed man who lives with his wife and overbearing mother-in-law sees an opportunity to relieve himself of the old bat, which tangles him in a ...
Night Moves
1975
as Joey Ziegler
Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case - a former Hollywood actress want...
Lovin' Molly
1974
as Mr. Frye
Spanning nearly 40 years from 1925 to 1964, two Texas farm boys; straight-arrow Gid and laid-back Johnny fight over the affections of the beautiful an...
Hunter
1973
as Owen Larkdale
A fatal crash at a racetrack injures a government agent and exposes an enemy brainwashing scheme.
Fireball Forward
1972
as Corps Commander
A hard-nose general takes over a division with a bad combat record.
Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones
1971
as Pedro
Jai, the orphaned boy adopted by the Monkey Man, helps missionary Charity Jones bring an organ to a friendly tribe, but they are captured by hostile n...
The Sheriff
1971
as Paulsen
A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a wealthy white businessman rape...
The Tell-Tale Heart
1971
A retelling of Edgar Allan's Poe haunting tale.
Patton
1970
as Major General Walter Bedell Smith
"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with Patton's career in North Africa and p...
Chubasco
1968
as Judge North
A wild beach boy takes a job on a tuna fishing boat.
This Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is The Massage
1967
as Narration
Investigates the central ideas of Marshall McLuhan using pictorial techniques and including his own comments. Examines the reaction of others to his v...
The Price of a Life
1967
as Narrator
Ex-con trying to make good in the outside world with the help of his parole officer in New York City. Filmed on 16mm black and white film on a 12 inc...
The Plainsman
1966
as Lattimer
Calamity Jane tries to help Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickock stop an Indian war.
The Americanization of Emily
1964
as Admiral Thomas Healy
American sailor Charlie Madison falls for a pretty Englishwoman while trying to avoid a senseless and dangerous D-Day mission concocted by a deranged ...
Fail Safe
1964
as Col. Jack Grady
Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little t...
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
1962
as Brakeman
Young and restless Nick Adams, the only son of a domineering mother and a weak but noble doctor father, leaves his rural Michigan home to embark on an...
A Public Affair
1962
as Sen. Fred Baines
Expository internal affairs drama which brings to light the often unprincipled tactics used in negative "smear" campaigning, and its effects within th...
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961
as Senator Burkette
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chie...
Desire in the Dust
1960
as Luke Connett
Lonnie Wilson returns to small southern hometown after spending six years on the chain-gang for killing Colonel Ben Marquand's son in an automobile ac...
Heller in Pink Tights
1960
as Sheriff Ed McClain
Nineteenth century Wyoming: the wild West. Mild-mannered Tom Healy has a two-wagon theater troupe hounded by creditors because Angela, his leading lad...
North by Northwest
1959
as Captain Junket
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
The Man in the Net
1959
as State Police Capt. Green
An artist living in a quiet Connecticut town is the main suspect in the disappearance of his shrew wife. Things turn ugly when the townsfolk attempt t...
Curse of the Undead
1959
as Sheriff
A mysterious epidemic has struck an Old West frontier town and young girls are falling deathly ill. Doc Carter, his lovely daughter Dolores, and preac...
Compulsion
1959
as Tom Daly
Two close friends' plan to execute a flawless crime is crushed when one of them inadvertently leaves his glasses at the crime scene.
Young and Dangerous
1957
as Dr. Price
Tommy Price is the leader of a gang of young thugs interested in thrills, hot rods and girls. His friends bet him he can't make it with 17-year-old Ro...
Portland Exposé
1957
as George Madison
The owner of a tavern is pressured by the local mob to go into business with them, and figures it's better all around if he does that rather than caus...
12 Angry Men
1957
as Juror 6
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of m...
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
1956
as Lt. Kennedy
A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in a...
The Scarlet Hour
1956
as Sgt. Allen
An unhappy wife uses her powers of manipulation to draw an infatuated man into an ill-fated jewelry heist.
Patterns
1956
as Elevator Starter
Staples, a successful plant operator, is brought in from Ohio to take an executive position at Ramsey & Co. in New York. He forms a friendship with Br...
Tragedy in a Temporary Town
1956
as Anderson
Fifteen-year-old girl Dotty Fisher is assaulted at a construction camp. In the wake of this incident, the construction workers form a vigilante group ...
Vice Squad
1953
as Al Barkis
A Los Angeles police captain (Edward G. Robinson) ties the case of a slain policeman to a bank robbery, all in a day.
Without Warning!
1952
as Lt. Pete Hamilton
Los Angeles is paralysed with terror when a lovesick murderer takes to the streets with a pair of garden shears
Teresa
1951
as Sgt. Brown
An Italian war bride has problems dealing with her husband's possessive mother.
Halls of Montezuma
1951
as First Soldier in Final Tracking Shot (uncredited)
Richard Widmark leads an all star cast of marine leathernecks including Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone and Jack Webb into bat...