I just watched "12 Angry Men" and thought that Ed Binns was just a really fine actor. I hadn't thought about him in year
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Edward Binns
johnseason — 19 years ago(January 26, 2007 02:46 PM)
I just watched "12 Angry Men" and thought that Ed Binns was just a really fine actor. I hadn't thought about him in years, but seeing his face brought back some good movies and TV watching memories. His was a very familiar face and voice from my childhood.
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old_tv_guy — 18 years ago(September 13, 2007 08:38 PM)
He was definitely one of most active character actors during my prime TV-watching years. He was always good. His Frank Grady in "Fail Safe" was great he and Dan O'Herlihy carried most of the emotional weight in a very powerful film.
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ramsfan — 18 years ago(January 28, 2008 06:40 PM)
Agree with all you guys. I really miss a lot of the great character actors of 60's and 70's television, and Edward Binns is one of them. I enjoyed his performances tremendously- The Fugitive, Hawaii Five-O and The Twilight Zone come to mind, among others.
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lousvr — 16 years ago(September 14, 2009 05:40 PM)
Isn't it discouraging.
I don't see ANY actors of his quality around now.
In some ways, as far as I'm concerned, their have been several eras of acting.- theater
- silent films
- early studio film making'
- Post studio films finding their way in a maze, lucky to have great leading actors along with great character actors.
- and now .. the MINDLESS ERA.. (or.. hey, where's my plankton)
the mindless era, in the majority, exists solely to fill programming airspace for TV..
Goodnight Gracie..
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coop-16 — 14 years ago(January 20, 2012 07:12 AM)
He was a superb character actor. I was looking at his credits, and it seems he was in almost all the 'quality" Tv shows; M.A.S.H, The Defenders, Slattery's People, Route 66,etc. The amazing thing is the subtle differences he brought to every character.
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telegonus — 13 years ago(November 18, 2012 11:01 PM)
I always liked Ed Binns, just saw him in a
Fugitive
episode on MeTV. He was always good, tended to play hard-nosed guys with a heart. There was a somewhat of a shell to him beneath which one sensed inner decency. His generation, with their memories of the Depression and the world war, had a real world quality ingrained in them that one almost never sees in younger actors today. Streetwise is another way of putting it. Binns and others like him played guys who'd been around.