Hinton, Jr. Edgar (Ed) Latimer
Class of 1935Ed graduated from New Hanover High School and then college before going west to become an actor. He had honed his skills on the boards at Thalian Hall.
An American actor know particularly for guest-starring 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 had uncredited roles in the films Samson and Delilah, The Red Badge of Courage and I Was a Communist for the FBI, and Relatives. In 1954 he appeared in some of his television roles in the series Captain Midnight and the Border Patrol.
His father owned the Seashore Hotel, the Steel Pier at Wrightsville Beach and all the town’s laundry businesses.
Accolades: Actor