Ed Hinton (actor)
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Edgar Latimer Hinton, Jr., known as Ed Hinton and sometimes as Edward Hinton (March 26, 1919—October 12, 1958), was an American
actor
known particularly for guest-starring roles on television
westerns
. He was the father of actor Darby Hinton
(born 1957), who was only fourteen months old, when Ed Hinton perished in an airplane crash on Santa Catalina Island
off the California
coast.
, North Carolina
, the son of Edgar Latimer Hinton II, Sr. (1868-1934), the owner of the Seashore Hotel with one of the first steel piers for entertaining over the ocean in Wrightsville N.C. and the town's only laundry
businesses as well as being a community actor in Wilmington. In 1948, Hinton was cast as Kurt Shand in the film
Harpoon. This would seem to have been his first acting role. However, the Internet Movie Data Base indicates that he appeared in an uncredited role as a Dartmouth College
student in the 1938 film entitled Spring Madness, starring Sterling Holloway
. IMDB contends that Hinton was born on March 26, 1919, which would be age-consistent for Spring Madness. TV Guide
omits Spring Madness from Hinton's list of screen credits and instead begins ten years later with Harpoon.
Hinton had uncredited roles in the films Samson and Delilah (1949) and in two 1951 productions,
The Red Badge of Courage
and I Was a Communist for the FBI
, as agent Jim Broderick. The latter film inspired the syndicated
television series, I Led Three Lives
, in which Hinton appeared, apparently in only one episode, "Relatives" (1955), as Special Agent Henderson. Richard Carlson starred as informant Herbert Philbrick
.
In 1954, Hinton appeared in some of his first television roles with an appearance on the CBS series Captain Midnight
, starring Richard Webb
, later of the syndicated series, Border Patrol
.
, Darcy Hinton Cook, and Darby Hinton
, who co-starred from 1964-1970 on NBC
's western series, Daniel Boone
, with Fess Parker
in the title role. Mrs. Hinton never remarried after Ed's death.
United States
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actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
known particularly for guest-starring roles on television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
westerns
Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...
. He was the father of actor Darby Hinton
Darby Hinton
Darby Hinton is an American actor and filmmaker initially cast in commercials when he was six months old. From 1964–1970 he portrayed Israel Boone, a son of American pioneer Daniel Boone, on the NBC adventure series Daniel Boone, with Fess Parker in the title role...
(born 1957), who was only fourteen months old, when Ed Hinton perished in an airplane crash on Santa Catalina Island
Santa Catalina Island, California
Santa Catalina Island, often called Catalina Island, or just Catalina, is a rocky island off the coast of the U.S. state of California. The island is long and across at its greatest width. The island is located about south-southwest of Los Angeles, California. The highest point on the island is...
off the California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
coast.
Early life and career
Hinton was born in WilmingtonWilmington, North Carolina
Wilmington is a port city in and is the county seat of New Hanover County, North Carolina, United States. The population is 106,476 according to the 2010 Census, making it the eighth most populous city in the state of North Carolina...
, North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
, the son of Edgar Latimer Hinton II, Sr. (1868-1934), the owner of the Seashore Hotel with one of the first steel piers for entertaining over the ocean in Wrightsville N.C. and the town's only laundry
Laundry
Laundry is a noun that refers to the act of washing clothing and linens, the place where that washing is done, and/or that which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered...
businesses as well as being a community actor in Wilmington. In 1948, Hinton was cast as Kurt Shand in the film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
Harpoon. This would seem to have been his first acting role. However, the Internet Movie Data Base indicates that he appeared in an uncredited role as a Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
student in the 1938 film entitled Spring Madness, starring Sterling Holloway
Sterling Holloway
Sterling Price Holloway, Jr. was an American character actor who appeared in 150 films and television programs. He was also a voice actor for The Walt Disney Company...
. IMDB contends that Hinton was born on March 26, 1919, which would be age-consistent for Spring Madness. TV Guide
TV Guide
TV Guide is a weekly American magazine with listings of TV shows.In addition to TV listings, the publication features television-related news, celebrity interviews, gossip and film reviews and crossword puzzles...
omits Spring Madness from Hinton's list of screen credits and instead begins ten years later with Harpoon.
Hinton had uncredited roles in the films Samson and Delilah (1949) and in two 1951 productions,
The Red Badge of Courage
The Red Badge of Courage (film)
The Red Badge of Courage is a 1951 war film made by MGM. It was directed by John Huston and produced by Gottfried Reinhardt with Dore Schary as executive producer. The screenplay is by John Huston, adapted by Albert Band from the Stephen Crane novel of the same name. The cinematography is by...
and I Was a Communist for the FBI
I Was a Communist for the FBI
I Was a Communist for the FBI is the name of a series of stories written by Matt Cvetic that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. The stories were later turned into a best-selling book, an American espionage thriller radio series and motion picture in the early 1950s.The story follows Cvetic, who...
, as agent Jim Broderick. The latter film inspired the syndicated
Television syndication
In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows by multiple radio stations and television stations, without going through a broadcast network, though the process of syndication may conjure up structures like those of a network itself, by its very...
television series, I Led Three Lives
I Led Three Lives
I Led Three Lives is an American drama series which was syndicated by Ziv Television Programs from October 1, 1953 to January 1, 1956. The series stars Richard Carlson...
, in which Hinton appeared, apparently in only one episode, "Relatives" (1955), as Special Agent Henderson. Richard Carlson starred as informant Herbert Philbrick
Herbert Philbrick
Herbert Arthur Philbrick was a Boston area advertising executive who was paid by the FBI to infiltrate the Communist Party USA between 1940 and 1949. His involvement began when he joined a Communist front group in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Cambridge Youth Council...
.
In 1954, Hinton appeared in some of his first television roles with an appearance on the CBS series Captain Midnight
Captain Midnight
Captain Midnight is a U.S. adventure franchise first broadcast as a radio serial from 1938 to 1949. Sponsored by the Skelly Oil Company, the radio program was the creation of radio scripters Wilfred G. Moore and Robert M...
, starring Richard Webb
Richard Webb (actor)
Richard Webb was a film, television and radio actor. He was born in Bloomington, Illinois.He appeared in more than fifty films, including many westerns and films noir including Out of the Past , Night Has a Thousand Eyes , I Was a Communist for the FBI and Carson City...
, later of the syndicated series, Border Patrol
Border Patrol (US TV series)
Border Patrol is a 34-episode syndicated half-hour adventure/drama television series which aired in the United States during calendar year 1959, with Richard Webb cast as Don Jagger, the fictitious deputy chief of the Border Patrol...
.
Western roles
- The Cisco KidThe Cisco Kid (TV series)The Cisco Kid is a half-hour American Western television series starring Duncan Renaldo in the title role, The Cisco Kid, and Leo Carrillo as the jovial sidekick, Pancho...
(with Duncan RenaldoDuncan RenaldoRenault Renaldo Duncan , better known as Duncan Renaldo, was an American actor who portrayed The Cisco Kid in films and on the 1950-1956 American TV series, The Cisco Kid.-Early years:...
and Leo Carillo), Hinton portrayed an outlaw in "Gold Strike" and the character Muley in "Caution of Curley Thompson" (both 1954)
- The Lone RangerThe Lone RangerThe Lone Ranger is a fictional masked Texas Ranger who, with his Native American companion Tonto, fights injustice in the American Old West. The character has become an enduring icon of American culture....
, as Flint in "The Black Hat" (1950), as Bob Shay in "Letter of the Law" (1951), and as Stag the Mute in "Heritage of Treason" and as Jake Logan in "Uncle Ed" (both 1955)
- Apache AmbushApache AmbushApache Ambush is a 1955 western film, released by Columbia Pictures, directed by Fred F. Sears and starring Bill Williams and Richard Jaeckel.-Plot:...
, as a husky unnamed pioneerAmerican pioneerAmerican pioneers are any of the people in American history who migrated west to join in settling and developing new areas. The term especially refers to those who were going to settle any territory which had previously not been settled or developed by European or American society, although the...
(1955)
- The Adventures of ChampionThe Adventures of ChampionThe Adventures of Champion is a 15-minute adventure serial radio drama directed by William Burch and heard weekday afternoons on the Mutual Broadcasting System in 1949-50.-Radio:...
(Gene AutryGene AutryOrvon Grover Autry , better known as Gene Autry, was an American performer who gained fame as The Singing Cowboy on the radio, in movies and on television for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s...
series), as Rex Baggot in "Lost River" and "King of the RodeoRodeoRodeo is a competitive sport which arose out of the working practices of cattle herding in Spain, Mexico, and later the United States, Canada, South America and Australia. It was based on the skills required of the working vaqueros and later, cowboys, in what today is the western United States,...
" (both 1955)
- Tales of the Texas RangersTales of the Texas RangersTales of the Texas Rangers, a western adventure old-time radio drama, premiered on July 8, 1950, on the US NBC radio network and remained on the air through September 14, 1952...
as Matt Carter in "Blazing Aross the PecosPecos RiverThe headwaters of the Pecos River are located north of Pecos, New Mexico, United States, at an elevation of over 12,000 feet on the western slope of the Sangre de Cristo mountain range in Mora County. The river flows for through the eastern portion of that state and neighboring Texas before it...
" and as Walker in "The Rough, Tough West" (both 1955)
- The Adventures of Rin Tin TinThe Adventures of Rin Tin TinThe Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program which originally aired in 166 episodes on ABC from October 1954 until August 1959. It starred child actor Lee Aaker as Rusty, a boy orphaned in an Indian raid, who was being raised by the soldiers at a US Cavalry post known...
in "Bounty Hunters" and as Whitley Larrimore in "The Poor Little Rich Boy" (both 1955) and as Seth Ramsey in "Circle of Fire" (1956)
- Buffalo Bill Jr.Buffalo Bill Jr.Buffalo Bill, Jr. is an American Western television series starring Dickie Jones that aired in syndication from March 1, 1955, until September 21, 1956.-Synopsis:...
with Dick Jones, episodes "The Lady and the Judge" and "Double-Cross Money" (both 1956)
- Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, as Barry Jeffers in "Remember the Maine" and as Lefty "Red" Burke in "The Rookie" (both 1956)
- The Roy Rogers ShowThe Roy Rogers ShowThe Roy Rogers Show is an American Western television series that broadcast 100 episodes on NBC for six seasons between December 30, 1951 and June 9, 1957. The show starred Roy Rogers as a ranch owner, Dale Evans as the proprietor of the Eureka Cafe in fictional Mineral City, and Pat Brady as...
in "High Stakes" (1957)
- State TrooperState Trooper (TV series)State Trooper is a half-hour television crime drama set in the 1950s American West, starring Rod Cameron as Rod Blake, an officer of the Nevada State Troopers. The series aired 104 episodes in syndication from September 25, 1956, to June 25, 1959...
as Will Morrison in "Violets on Mt. Rose" (1957)
- Circus BoyCircus BoyCircus Boy is an American action/adventure/drama series that aired in prime time on NBC, and then on ABC, from 1956 to 1958. It was then rerun by NBC on Saturday mornings, from 1958 to 1960...
in "The Return of Colonel Jack", as the Sheriff in "The Magic Lantern" and as Glenn Keyes in "The Judge's Boy" (all 1957)
- Tales of Wells FargoTales of Wells FargoTales of Wells Fargo is an American Western television series that ran from March 18, 1957 to June 2, 1962 on NBC. Produced by Revue Productions, the series aired in a half-hour format until its final season when it expanded to an hour.-Synopsis:...
as a colonelColonelColonel , abbreviated Col or COL, is a military rank of a senior commissioned officer. It or a corresponding rank exists in most armies and in many air forces; the naval equivalent rank is generally "Captain". It is also used in some police forces and other paramilitary rank structures...
in "The SoonerS" (1958)
- Sky KingSky KingSky King is a 1940s and 1950s American radio and television adventure series. The title character is Arizona rancher and aircraft pilot Schuyler "Sky" King...
as Red O'Brian in "Danger at the Sawmill" (1958)
- Cimarron CityCimarron City (TV series)Cimarron City is an American Western television series starring George Montgomery and John Smith that aired on NBC from October 11, 1958 until April 4, 1959...
as a prosecutorProsecutorThe prosecutor is the chief legal representative of the prosecution in countries with either the common law adversarial system, or the civil law inquisitorial system...
in "Kid on a Calico Horse" (1958)
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt EarpThe Life and Legend of Wyatt EarpThe Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a Western television series loosely based on the adventures of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black and white series ran on ABC-TV from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O'Brian as Earp. An off-camera barbershop quartet sang the theme song and hummed...
as Dean in "Rich Man's Son" (1955) and as Moresby in "The Manly Art" and as Snakey in "Frontier Woman" (both 1958)
- The Rough RidersThe Rough Riders (TV series)The Rough Riders is an American Western television series set in the West after the American Civil War. It aired on ABC for the 1958-1959 television season...
in "Shadow of the Past" (1958)
- The BuccaneerThe Buccaneer (1958 film)The Buccaneer is a 1958 War film, made by Paramount Pictures like the 1938 version and shot in Technicolor and VistaVision. It takes place during the War of 1812, and tells a heavily fictionalized version of how the pirate Jean Lafitte helped in the Battle of New Orleans and how he had to choose...
as Second Mate at BaratariaBarataria-Places:Trinidad and Tobago*Barataria, Trinidad and TobagoUnited States*Barataria, Louisiana*Barataria Bay , Louisiana*The Barataria Preserve, part of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, Louisiana-In fiction:...
(posthumously 1959)
- Good Day for a HangingGood Day for a HangingGood Day for a Hanging is a western concerning how a town views the upcoming hanging of a young man accused of murdering the sheriff during a robbery. Directed by Nathan H. Juran, it stars Fred MacMurray as the reluctant new sheriff and Robert Vaughn as the young man accused of the crime....
as unnamed citizen (posthumously 1959)
Drama roles
- Adventures of SupermanAdventures of Superman (TV series)Adventures of Superman is an American television series based on comic book characters and concepts created in 1938 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The show is the first television series to feature Superman and began filming in 1951 in California...
, as Cave Man in "Through the Time Barrier" (1955) and as Joe in "The Phantom Ring" (1956)
- The Ford Television Theatre as an outlaw in "Duffy's Man" (1956)
- General Electric TheaterGeneral Electric TheaterGeneral Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald W. Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.-Radio:...
, hosted by Ronald W. Reagan, as Big Nick in "Too Good with a Gun" (1957)
- Perry MasonPerry Mason (TV series)Perry Mason is an American legal drama produced by Paisano Productions that ran from September 1957 to May 1966 on CBS. The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a fictional Los Angeles defense attorney who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner...
as SheriffSheriffA sheriff is in principle a legal official with responsibility for a county. In practice, the specific combination of legal, political, and ceremonial duties of a sheriff varies greatly from country to country....
Mark Daley in "The Case of the Cautious Coquette" (1958)
- LassieLassie (1954 TV series)Lassie is an American television series that follows the adventures of a female Rough Collie named Lassie and her companions, human and animal. The show was the creation of producer Robert Maxwell and animal trainer Rudd Weatherwax and was televised from September 12, 1954, to March 24, 1973...
as Jeannie's father in "The Sermon" (1958)
- GidgetGidgetGidget is a fictional character created by author Frederick Kohner in his 1957 novel, Gidget, the Little Girl with Big Ideas. The novel follows the adventures of a teenage girl and her surfing friends on the beach at Malibu. The name Gidget is a portmanteau of "girl and midget"...
(film), uncredited as a police officer (posthumously, 1959)
Family
Hinton and his wife, Marilynn Hinton had three children, Daryn HintonDaryn Hinton
Daryn Hinton born in Santa Monica, California, raised in the Hollywood entertainment industry. Hinton had a spiritual conversion and left the Hollywood connections behind to pursue her new found faith.-Family and background:...
, Darcy Hinton Cook, and Darby Hinton
Darby Hinton
Darby Hinton is an American actor and filmmaker initially cast in commercials when he was six months old. From 1964–1970 he portrayed Israel Boone, a son of American pioneer Daniel Boone, on the NBC adventure series Daniel Boone, with Fess Parker in the title role...
, who co-starred from 1964-1970 on NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
's western series, Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone (TV series)
Daniel Boone is an American action/adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Native American friend, for the...
, with Fess Parker
Fess Parker
Fess Elisha Parker, Jr. was an American film and television actor best known for his portrayals of Davy Crockett in the Walt Disney 1955-56 TV mini-series and as TV's Daniel Boone from 1964-70...
in the title role. Mrs. Hinton never remarried after Ed's death.