Ed Hinton (actor)

Edgar Latimer Hinton, Jr., known as Ed Hinton and sometimes as Edward Hinton , was an American actor known particularly for gueststarring roles on television westerns. He was the father of actor Darby Hinton , 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. , the owner of the Seashore Hotel with one of the first steel piers for entertaining over the ocean in Wrightsville N.C. and the towns 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 ageconsistent for Spring Madness. TV Guide omits Spring Madness from Hintons list of screen credits and instead begins ten years later with Harpoon.

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