Edgar Latimer Hinton Jr. (March 26, 1919 â€" 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.Hinton was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, the son of Edgar
Latimer Hinton II, Sr. (1868â€"1934). His father owned the Seashore
Hotel and Steel Pier, whose pier was one of the earliest for
entertaining over the ocean in Wrightsville Beach, N.C. and all of the
town's laundry businesses back then, as well as being a community
actor in Wilmington himself. In 1948, Ed 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 does indicate 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.
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.Hinton was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, the son of Edgar
Latimer Hinton II, Sr. (1868â€"1934). His father owned the Seashore
Hotel and Steel Pier, whose pier was one of the earliest for
entertaining over the ocean in Wrightsville Beach, N.C. and all of the
town's laundry businesses back then, as well as being a community
actor in Wilmington himself. In 1948, Ed 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 does indicate 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.
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