Stage Binns's theatrical career began shortly after his 1937 college graduation, when he participated in a
repertory theatre in Cleveland. He followed that with a year as actor and director of the Pan-American Theatre in Mexico City. Next, he went to the University of Pennsylvania as an instructor, directing stock theater companies. His
Broadway credits include
Command Decision (1947),
Caligula (1959) and
Ghosts (1982).
Military service Beginning in 1942, Binns served in the
Army Air Forces. After graduating from
Officer Candidate School, he was an armament officer in the
China-Burma-India Theater. He also appeared in "more than 500 television programs, live, taped and film", including
NBC's legal drama
Justice,
Rod Cameron's syndicated
State Trooper, the syndicated adventure series
Whirlybirds, the
ABC/
Warner Brothers western series,
The Dakotas, the ABC rodeo drama,
Stoney Burke,
Gunsmoke (in 1957 as "Bill Strapp", a heartless killer in S3E6's "Jesse") 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. 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. 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 appeared twice on
The Twilight Zone, first in a leading role as Colonel Donlin in the episode "
I Shot an Arrow into the Air" (1960) and then in a supporting role as General Walters in the episode "
The Long Morrow" (1964). He portrayed a marine biologist obsessed with a whale in the
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episode "The Ghost of Moby Dick". Binns appeared in two episodes of ABC's
The Untouchables as gunman Steve Ballard and in a later episode as a doctor and also in an episode of
Combat!. 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, an episode of
The Rockford Files, and in three episodes of ABC's
The Fugitive. He appeared in the season 5 finale of
Hawaii Five-O ("Jury of One") in 1973. In his 1986 penultimate screen role, Binns guest starred on
The Equalizer as Father Martin O'Donohugh in the episode, "
Shades of Darkness." ==Personal life==