Trivia: Actor Edward Binns possessed two qualities that many of his contemporaries lacked: he was always reliable, and always believable. On Broadway, he was shown to good advantage in such hit productions as Command Decision, The Lark, A View From the Bridge, and Caligula. In films from 1951's Teresa, Binns' roles ranged from the vacillating Juror #6 in 12 Angry Men (1957) to the authoritative Major General Walter Bedell Smith in Patton (1970). On television, Binns played the title role in the 1959 cop drama Brenner, Dr. Anson Kiley in The Nurses (1962-1964), and secret-service contact man Wallie Powers in It Takes a Thief (1969-1970 season). Edward Binns died suddenly at the age of 74, while traveling from New York to his home in Connecticut.

Trivia: The first time we saw American actor Dewey Martin was as Butch in 1949's Knock on Any Door. Though his all-American features would have ensured him a long career as a leading man, Martin made a conscious effort to avoid being pigeonholed, essaying such complex characters as escaped convict Hal Griffin in The Desperate Hours. He appeared with frequency on television, showing up on the many filmed anthologies of the 1950s and 1960s, as well as the made-for-TV movie Assault on the Wayne (1971). Evidently, Dewey Martin retired from acting around 1975.

Trivia: Leslie Barrett, born Leslie Klein in New York City in 1919, began his acting career completely by accident. As a teenager in high school one day in 1936, he'd heard the Theatre Guild was looking for young performers and his older brother -- who was the would-be actor in the family -- suggested that he stop by the Guild office. He did just that and, totally unexpectedly, found himself cast in a play called But For the Grace of God. That play didn't run long, but then he was put into An Enemy Of The People. He next was chosen to replace Billy Halop in the key role of Tommy in Sidney Kingsley's Dead End, when Halop and the other original leads were sent to Hollywood to make the movie version. That play was a success, and at the end of its run, Klein -- who changed his last name to Barrett during the run -- had a career. He kept working steadily on the stage for the next 60 years, interrupted only by military service during World War II. As a New York-based actor, he never made any feature-film appearances, but his television career actually began in the 1930s when he worked on some experimental broadcasts in the new medium. After the war, he appeared in numerous soap operas and dramatic anthology shows -- ironically, his most widely seen work across the decades is in the "Bensonhurst Bomber" episode of The Honeymooners, one of the "classic 39" filmed shows, in which he played George, the squeaky-voiced pool player who gets Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden involved in a fight with his much bigger friend Harvey (played by George Mathews); it's ironic because Barrett had to add such a squeaky whine to his voice for the part, that, as he recalled for audiences in the 1980s, he got no work for a couple of years afterward because producers and casting directors thought that was how he talked. In more recent years, Barrett has appeared as a judge in two episodes of the New York-filmed series Law & Order.