Edgar Buchanan
Acting
Born: March 20, 1903 · Humansville, Missouri, USA
Died: April 4, 1979 (aged 76)
Highest Rated
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Edgar Buchanan (March 20, 1903 – April 4, 1979) was an American actor with a long career in both film and television, most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction, Green Acres and Beverly Hillbillies television sitcoms of the 1960s. As Uncle Joe, he took over as proprietor of the Shady Rest Hotel following the death of Bea Benaderet, who had played Kate Bradley. Early life Edgar Buchanan was born to Rose (Kee) Buchanan and William Edgar Buchanan Sr., DDS in Humansville, Missouri. He moved with his family to Oregon when he was seven. His father had a dental practice in Eugene, Oregon, and encouraged his son to follow suit. Buchanan Senior did not approve of his son's acting ambitions and pushed him to pursue dentistry instead. According to authors Arden and Joan Christen, Edgar's father believed "to choose a career in the theater was to settle for a life of mediocrity and uncertainty". Nevertheless, Edgar took courses in theater at the University of Oregon as a pre-med student, and was part of a Portland acting troupe in graduate school. He was also involved in the founding of the Portland Civic Theatre. In 1928, Edgar earned his DDS degree from North Pacific College School of Dentistry in Portland, Oregon, which later became Oregon Health & Science University School of Dentistry. During his time there, he met his future wife, Mildred "Millie" Spence (1907–1987). They married in 1928 - the same year they both graduated with dental degrees. The couple adopted a son and named him William Edgar "Buck" Buchanan III. Big changes came in 1939 when the family of three relocated their dental practice from Eugene, Oregon, to Altadena, California. There, Edgar joined the Pasadena Playhouse as an actor. Studio scouts spotted him performing at the playhouse and signed him into a seven-year deal in Hollywood. That same year, he appeared in his first film at age 36, and he left dentistry for good. Meanwhile, his wife, Dr. Millie Buchanan, DDS, took over the dental practice while also supporting her husband's new career as his talent manager. Career Buchanan appeared in more than 100 films, including Texas (1941), in which he played a dentist and appeared with William Holden and Glenn Ford and later in Penny Serenade (1941) with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die (1942), The Talk of the Town (1942) with Ronald Colman, Cary Grant and Jean Arthur, The Man from Colorado (1948), Cheaper by the Dozen (1950), Shane (1953), She Couldn't Say No (1954), Ride the High Country (1962) with Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea, McLintock! (1963) with John Wayne, Move Over, Darling (1963) with Doris Day and James Garner, and Benji (1974). Death Buchanan died from a stroke complicated by pneumonia in Palm Desert, California in 1979. He was interred in the Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles. CLR Description above from the Wikipedia article Edgar Buchanan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
The Twilight Zone
1959
Shane
1953
Bonanza
1959
McLintock!
1963
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Ride the High Country
1962
The Comancheros
1961
The Andy Griffith Show
1960
Benji
1974
Donovan's Reef
1963
The Sea Hawk
1940
Human Desire
1954
Photos (1)
Movies (100)
Shane
Fred Lewis
McLintock!
Bunny Dull
The Comancheros
Circuit Court Judge Thaddeus Jackson Breen
Benji
Bill
Cheaper by the Dozen
Dr. Burton
Cimarron
Judge Neal Hefner
Ride the High Country
Judge Tolliver
The Rounders
Vince Moore
Donovan's Reef
Francis O'Brien
The Sea Hawk
Ben Rollins
Human Desire
Alec Simmons
The Talk of the Town
Sam Yates
Abilene Town
Sheriff Bravo Trimble
Lust for Gold
Wiser
Destry
The Honorable Hiram J. Sellers, Mayor
Wichita
Doc Black
Arizona
Judge Bogardus
Move Over, Darling
Judge Bryson
Devil's Doorway
Zeke Carmody
The Sheepman
Milt Masters
The Man from Colorado
Doc Merriam
The Desperadoes
Uncle Willie McLeod
Texas
Buford 'Doc' Thorpe
Penny Serenade
Applejack
Welcome to Hard Times
Brown
The Sea of Grass
Jeff
Day of the Badman
Sam Wyckoff
Gunpoint
Bull
My Son Is Guilty
Dan, Bartender
Edge of Eternity
Sheriff Edwards
Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
Curly Bill
It Started with a Kiss
Richard Tappe
The Over the Hill Gang
Jason Fitch
Framed
Jeff Cunningham
Rawhide
Sam Todd
Too Many Husbands
McDermott
The Big Trees
Walter 'Yukon' Burns
A Ticklish Affair
Captain Martin / Gramps
Flaming Feather
Sgt. O'Rourke
Cave of Outlaws
Dobbs
The Big Hangover
Uncle Fred Mahoney
The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again
Jason Fitch
Red Canyon
Jonah Johnson
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest
Friar Tuck
Destroyer
Kansas Jackson
King of the Wild Stallions
Idaho
The Man from Button Willow
Sorry (voice)
Four Fast Guns
Dipper
Hound-Dog Man
Doc Cole
Rage at Dawn
Judge
Dawn at Socorro
Sheriff Cauthen
Any Number Can Play
Ed
The Walking Hills
Old Willy
The Walls Came Tumbling Down
George Bradford
When the Daltons Rode
Narrator / Old-Timer (uncredited)
Angel in My Pocket
Axel Gresham
The Marshal of Madrid
Deputy JJ Jackson
Coroner Creek
Sheriff O'Hea
You Belong to Me
Billings
Make Haste to Live
Sheriff Lafe
Silver City
Dutch Surrency
She Couldn't Say No
Ed Meeker
It Happens Every Thursday
Jake
Tammy Tell Me True
Judge Carver
Devil's Partner
Doc Lucas
Flashing Spikes
Crab Holman
The Black Arrow
Lawless
Chartroose Caboose
Woodrow 'Woody' Watts
Renegades
Kirk Dembrow
Buffalo Bill
Sgt. Chips McGraw
The Lonesome Trail
Dan Wells
Come Next Spring
Mr. Canary
Escape to Glory
Charles Atterbee
Toughest Man in Arizona
Jim Hadlock
If I'm Lucky
Darius J. Magonnagle
Her First Beau
Elmer Tuttle
Sam Cade
J.J. Jackson
Yuma
Mules McNeil
Bride by Mistake
Jonathan Connors
Adventures in Silverado
Dr. Hendersonn
The Wreck of the Hesperus
George Lockhart
Spoilers of the Forest
Tom Duncan
Cargo to Capetown
Sam Bennett
The Impatient Years
Judge
The Fighting Guardsman
Brown
Tear Gas Squad
Cousin Andy
Wild Stallion
John Wintergreen
Stump Run
1960
Something for a Lonely Man
Old Man Wolenski
Strange Affair
Lt. Washburn
City Without Men
Judge Michael T. Mallory
The Great Missouri Raid
Dr. Samuels
Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Jonesey Jones
The Silver Star
Will 'Bill' Dowdy (as Edgar Buchanon)
The Richest Man in Town
Pete Martin
The Untamed Breed
John Rambeau
Best Man Wins
Jim Smiley
Perilous Holiday
George Richards
The Swordsman
Angus MacArden
The Brush Roper
Sub Doyal
TV Shows (69)
Perry Mason
Andy Templet · 1 eps
Perry Mason
Judge Edward Daley · 1 eps
The Andy Griffith Show
Henry Wheeler · 1 eps
Bonanza
Hallelujah Hicks · 1 eps
The Rifleman
3 eps
The Rifleman
Grandpa Fogarty · 1 eps
The Rifleman
Doc J. Burrage · 2 eps
Wagon Train
Ben Mattox · 1 eps
Wagon Train
Thaddeus Briscoe · 1 eps
The Twilight Zone
Doc Bolton · 1 eps
Have Gun, Will Travel
1 eps
Maverick
Jed Christianson · 3 eps
Maverick
Daddy David Forge · 1 eps
Maverick
Sheriff Hadley · 1 eps
Green Acres
Joe Carson · 17 eps
The Beverly Hillbillies
Joe Carson · 3 eps
Dr. Kildare
Steve Devitt · 1 eps
Dr. Kildare
Judge Wilfred Manning · 1 eps
The Partridge Family
Judge McElwreath · 1 eps
Climax!
Spencer · 1 eps
Climax!
Constable · 1 eps
Studio One
Dan Ferris · 1 eps
Leave It to Beaver
Captain Jack · 3 eps
Petticoat Junction
Joe Carson · 222 eps
Route 66
1 eps
Route 66
Magistrate Abe Chumley · 1 eps
Thriller
Doc O'Connor · 1 eps
Gunsmoke
Dan · 1 eps
Gunsmoke
York · 1 eps
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Pops · 1 eps
Bat Masterson
Cactus Charlie · 1 eps
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Pop Michaels · 1 eps
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Chester Blake · 1 eps
The Millionaire
William Eliot Vaughan · 1 eps
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
Park Commissioner · 1 eps
The Ford Television Theatre
Papa Mumby · 1 eps
Laramie
1 eps
The Danny Thomas Show
Captain Archie · 1 eps
Stoney Burke
1 eps
Bronco
1 eps
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Judge Franklin · 1 eps
Trackdown
Tully Saxon · 1 eps
Cavalcade of America
1 eps
Cavalcade of America
Horace Greeley · 2 eps
Cavalcade of America
Doc Mathew · 1 eps
The Mod Squad
Hargis · 1 eps
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1 eps
Riverboat
Wingate Pardee · 1 eps
Outlaws
2 eps
The Gale Storm Show
Jasper Stokes · 1 eps
Stagecoach West
Lum Jensen · 1 eps
26 Men
1 eps
The Lloyd Bridges Show
Doc Lawton · 1 eps
The Tall Man
1 eps
The Restless Gun
Ethan Greenfield · 1 eps
Bus Stop
1 eps
The Californians
Major · 1 eps
Hopalong Cassidy
Red Connors · 40 eps
National Velvet
Grandpa Harwell · 2 eps
General Electric Theater
Buckskin · 1 eps
General Electric Theater
Colonel Starbottle · 1 eps
General Electric Theater
Preacher Bailey · 1 eps
General Electric Theater
Parson Meacham · 1 eps
General Electric Theater
Doctor · 1 eps
General Electric Theater
Timothy Dwight · 1 eps
Bringing Up Buddy
1 eps
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Henry Maguire · 1 eps
Judge Roy Bean
39 eps
Cade's County
Senior Deputy J.J. Jackson · 24 eps
