Edgar Buchanan
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 20, 1903
- Died
- April 4, 1979 (aged 76)
- Birthplace
- Humansville, Missouri, USA
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
Filmography
The History of Hooterville
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Benji
Movie · as Bill
The Marshal of Madrid
Movie · as Deputy JJ Jackson
Sam Cade
Movie · as J.J. Jackson
Yuma
Movie · as Mules McNeil
Cade's County
TV · as Senior Deputy J.J. Jackson · 24 eps
The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again
Movie · as Jason Fitch
The Partridge Family
TV · as Judge McElwreath · 1 ep
The Over the Hill Gang
Movie · as Jason Fitch
Angel in My Pocket
Movie · as Axel Gresham
Something for a Lonely Man
Movie · as Old Man Wolenski
The Mod Squad
TV · as Hargis · 1 ep
Welcome to Hard Times
Movie · as Brown
Gunpoint
Movie · as Bull
The Rounders
Movie · as Vince Moore
The Man from Button Willow
Movie · as Sorry (voice)
Green Acres
TV · as Joe Carson · 17 eps
Move Over, Darling
Movie · as Judge Bryson
McLintock!
Movie · as Bunny Dull
Donovan's Reef
Movie · as Francis O'Brien
A Ticklish Affair
Movie · as Captain Martin / Gramps
Petticoat Junction
TV · as Joe Carson · 222 eps
Vacation Playhouse
TV · as Luke · 2 eps
Ride the High Country
Movie · as Judge Tolliver
Flashing Spikes
Movie · as Crab Holman
The Beverly Hillbillies
TV · as Joe Carson · 3 eps
The Merv Griffin Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Stoney Burke
TV · 1 ep
The Lloyd Bridges Show
TV · as Doc Lawton · 1 ep
The Comancheros
Movie · as Circuit Court Judge Thaddeus Jackson Breen
Tammy Tell Me True
Movie · as Judge Carver
Devil's Partner
Movie · as Doc Lucas
Bus Stop
TV · 1 ep
Dr. Kildare
TV · as Steve Devitt, Judge Wilfred Manning · 1 ep
Cimarron
Movie · as Judge Neal Hefner
Four Fast Guns
Movie · as Dipper
Stump Run
Movie
Chartroose Caboose
Movie · as Woodrow 'Woody' Watts
The Andy Griffith Show
TV · as Henry Wheeler · 1 ep
Route 66
TV · as Magistrate Abe Chumley · 1 ep
The Tall Man
TV · 1 ep
Bringing Up Buddy
TV · 1 ep
Outlaws
TV · 2 eps
Thriller
TV · as Doc O'Connor · 1 ep
National Velvet
TV · as Grandpa Harwell · 2 eps
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
TV · as Judge Franklin · 1 ep
Stagecoach West
TV · as Lum Jensen · 1 ep
Edge of Eternity
Movie · as Sheriff Edwards
It Started with a Kiss
Movie · as Richard Tappe
King of the Wild Stallions
Movie · as Idaho
Hound-Dog Man
Movie · as Doc Cole
The Twilight Zone
TV · as Doc Bolton · 1 ep
Laramie
TV · 1 ep
Riverboat
TV · as Wingate Pardee · 1 ep
Bonanza
TV · as Hallelujah Hicks · 1 ep
The Sheepman
Movie · as Milt Masters
Day of the Badman
Movie · as Sam Wyckoff
Bronco
TV · 1 ep
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV · as Pop Michaels, Chester Blake · 1 ep
The Rifleman
TV · as Grandpa Fogarty, Doc J. Burrage · 3 eps
Bat Masterson
TV · as Cactus Charlie · 1 ep
Spoilers of the Forest
Movie · as Tom Duncan
Perry Mason
TV · as Andy Templet, Judge Edward Daley · 1 ep
Leave It to Beaver
TV · as Captain Jack · 3 eps
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV · 1 ep
26 Men
TV · 1 ep
Maverick
TV · as Jed Christianson, Daddy David Forge, Sheriff Hadley · 3 eps
The Californians
TV · as Major · 1 ep
Wagon Train
TV · as Ben Mattox, Thaddeus Briscoe · 1 ep
The Restless Gun
TV · as Ethan Greenfield · 1 ep
Trackdown
TV · as Tully Saxon · 1 ep
Come Next Spring
Movie · as Mr. Canary
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
TV · 1 ep
The Gale Storm Show
TV · as Jasper Stokes · 1 ep
Wichita
Movie · as Doc Black
The Silver Star
Movie · as Will 'Bill' Dowdy (as Edgar Buchanon)
Rage at Dawn
Movie · as Judge
The Lonesome Trail
Movie · as Dan Wells
The Brush Roper
Movie · as Sub Doyal
Gunsmoke
TV · as Dan, York · 1 ep
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as Pops · 1 ep
The Millionaire
TV · as William Eliot Vaughan · 1 ep
Judge Roy Bean
TV · 39 eps
Human Desire
Movie · as Alec Simmons
Make Haste to Live
Movie · as Sheriff Lafe
Destry
Movie · as The Honorable Hiram J. Sellers, Mayor
She Couldn't Say No
Movie · as Ed Meeker
Dawn at Socorro
Movie · as Sheriff Cauthen
Climax!
TV · as Spencer, Constable · 1 ep
Shane
Movie · as Fred Lewis
It Happens Every Thursday
Movie · as Jake
General Electric Theater
TV · as Buckskin, Colonel Starbottle, Preacher Bailey, Parson Meacham, Doctor, Timothy Dwight · 1 ep
The Danny Thomas Show
TV · as Captain Archie · 1 ep
The Big Trees
Movie · as Walter 'Yukon' Burns
Wild Stallion
Movie · as John Wintergreen
Toughest Man in Arizona
Movie · as Jim Hadlock
Flaming Feather
Movie · as Sgt. O'Rourke
Cavalcade of America
TV · as Horace Greeley, Doc Mathew · 1 ep
Hopalong Cassidy
TV · as Red Connors · 40 eps
The Ford Television Theatre
TV · as Papa Mumby · 1 ep
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
TV · as Park Commissioner · 1 ep
Rawhide
Movie · as Sam Todd
Cave of Outlaws
Movie · as Dobbs
The Great Missouri Raid
Movie · as Dr. Samuels
Silver City
Movie · as Dutch Surrency
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV · as Henry Maguire · 1 ep
Devil's Doorway
Movie · as Zeke Carmody
Cargo to Capetown
Movie · as Sam Bennett
The Big Hangover
Movie · as Uncle Fred Mahoney
Cheaper by the Dozen
Movie · as Dr. Burton
Lust for Gold
Movie · as Wiser
Any Number Can Play
Movie · as Ed
Red Canyon
Movie · as Jonah Johnson
The Walking Hills
Movie · as Old Willy
Coroner Creek
Movie · as Sheriff O'Hea
The Man from Colorado
Movie · as Doc Merriam
Adventures in Silverado
Movie · as Dr. Hendersonn
The Swordsman
Movie · as Angus MacArden
The Untamed Breed
Movie · as John Rambeau
The Black Arrow
Movie · as Lawless
Best Man Wins
Movie · as Jim Smiley
The Wreck of the Hesperus
Movie · as George Lockhart
Studio One
TV · as Dan Ferris · 1 ep
Framed
Movie · as Jeff Cunningham
The Sea of Grass
Movie · as Jeff
Abilene Town
Movie · as Sheriff Bravo Trimble
The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Movie · as George Bradford
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest
Movie · as Friar Tuck
Renegades
Movie · as Kirk Dembrow
If I'm Lucky
Movie · as Darius J. Magonnagle
Perilous Holiday
Movie · as George Richards
The Fighting Guardsman
Movie · as Brown
Buffalo Bill
Movie · as Sgt. Chips McGraw
The Impatient Years
Movie · as Judge
Bride by Mistake
Movie · as Jonathan Connors
Strange Affair
Movie · as Lt. Washburn
Destroyer
Movie · as Kansas Jackson
Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Movie · as Jonesey Jones
City Without Men
Movie · as Judge Michael T. Mallory
The Desperadoes
Movie · as Uncle Willie McLeod
The Talk of the Town
Movie · as Sam Yates
Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
Movie · as Curly Bill
Penny Serenade
Movie · as Applejack
You Belong to Me
Movie · as Billings
Texas
Movie · as Buford 'Doc' Thorpe
The Richest Man in Town
Movie · as Pete Martin
Her First Beau
Movie · as Elmer Tuttle
Too Many Husbands
Movie · as McDermott
When the Daltons Rode
Movie · as Narrator / Old-Timer (uncredited)
Escape to Glory
Movie · as Charles Atterbee
Arizona
Movie · as Judge Bogardus
The Sea Hawk
Movie · as Ben Rollins
Tear Gas Squad
Movie · as Cousin Andy
My Son Is Guilty
Movie · as Dan, Bartender