Edgar Buchanan
Acting • Born 1903-03-20 – Died 1979-04-04
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.
Filmography
172 credits
Shane
Movie • 1953
Fred Lewis
Move Over, Darling
Movie • 1963
Judge Bryson
The Comancheros
Movie • 1961
Circuit Court Judge Thaddeus Jackson Breen
Human Desire
Movie • 1954
Alec Simmons
Benji
Movie • 1974
Bill
Abilene Town
Movie • 1946
Sheriff Bravo Trimble
The Talk of the Town
Movie • 1942
Sam Yates
The Rounders
Movie • 1965
Vince Moore
Devil's Doorway
Movie • 1950
Zeke Carmody
Ride the High Country
Movie • 1962
Judge Tolliver
Framed
Movie • 1947
Jeff Cunningham
Coroner Creek
Movie • 1948
Sheriff O'Hea
The Big Trees
Movie • 1952
Walter 'Yukon' Burns
Rawhide
Movie • 1951
Sam Todd
The Man from Colorado
Movie • 1948
Doc Merriam
McLintock!
Movie • 1963
Bunny Dull
Buffalo Bill
Movie • 1944
Sgt. Chips McGraw
Penny Serenade
Movie • 1941
Applejack Carney
Donovan's Reef
Movie • 1963
Francis O'Brien
Cargo to Capetown
Movie • 1950
Sam Bennett
Tammy Tell Me True
Movie • 1961
Judge Carver
Cimarron
Movie • 1960
Judge Neal Hefner
Make Haste to Live
Movie • 1954
Sheriff Lafe
The Over the Hill Gang
Movie • 1969
Jason Fitch
Lust for Gold
Movie • 1949
Wiser
Destry
Movie • 1954
The Honorable Hiram J. Sellers, Mayor
Yuma
Movie • 1971
Mules McNeil
Edge of Eternity
Movie • 1959
Sheriff Edwards
The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again
Movie • 1970
Jason Fitch
The Sea of Grass
Movie • 1947
Jeff
The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Movie • 1946
George Bradford
You Belong to Me
Movie • 1941
Billings
Destroyer
Movie • 1943
Kansas Jackson
Angel in My Pocket
Movie • 1969
Axel Gresham
Any Number Can Play
Movie • 1949
Ed
Too Many Husbands
Movie • 1940
McDermott
A Ticklish Affair
Movie • 1963
Captain Martin / Gramps
Devil's Partner
Movie • 1961
Doc Lucas
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest
Movie • 1946
Friar Tuck
She Couldn't Say No
Movie • 1954
Ed Meeker
The Man from Button Willow
Movie • 1965
Sorry (voice)
Cave of Outlaws
Movie • 1951
Dobbs
Wichita
Movie • 1955
Doc Black
When the Daltons Rode
Movie • 1940
Narrator / Old-Timer (uncredited)
Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Movie • 1943
Jonesey Jones
Red Canyon
Movie • 1949
Jonah Johnson
Welcome to Hard Times
Movie • 1967
Brown
Dawn at Socorro
Movie • 1954
Sheriff Cauthen
The Impatient Years
Movie • 1944
Judge
Gunpoint
Movie • 1966
Bull
Four Fast Guns
Movie • 1960
Dipper
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Movie • 1983
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
It Started with a Kiss
Movie • 1959
Congressman Richard Tappe
Wild Stallion
Movie • 1952
John Wintergreen
Toughest Man in Arizona
Movie • 1952
Jim Hadlock
The Big Hangover
Movie • 1950
Uncle Fred Mahoney
Renegades
Movie • 1946
Kirk Dembrow
The Walking Hills
Movie • 1949
Old Willy
Bride by Mistake
Movie • 1944
Jonathan Connors
Come Next Spring
Movie • 1956
Mr. Canary
If I'm Lucky
Movie • 1946
Darius J. Magonnagle
King of the Wild Stallions
Movie • 1959
Idaho
The Sheepman
Movie • 1958
Milt Masters
Cheaper by the Dozen
Movie • 1950
Dr. Burton
Escape to Glory
Movie • 1940
Charles Atterbee
Adventures in Silverado
Movie • 1948
Dr. Hendersonn
City Without Men
Movie • 1943
Judge Michael T. Mallory
The Silver Star
Movie • 1955
Will 'Bill' Dowdy (as Edgar Buchanon)
Something for a Lonely Man
Movie • 1968
Old Man Wolenski
Arizona
Movie • 1940
Judge Bogardus
Texas
Movie • 1941
Buford 'Doc' Thorpe
Flaming Feather
Movie • 1952
Sgt. O'Rourke
Rage at Dawn
Movie • 1955
Judge
Spoilers of the Forest
Movie • 1957
Tom Duncan
The Fighting Guardsman
Movie • 1945
Brown
The Swordsman
Movie • 1948
Angus MacArden
Stump Run
Movie • 1960
The Desperadoes
Movie • 1943
Uncle Willie McLeod
Flashing Spikes
Movie • 1962
Crab Holman
Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
Movie • 1942
Curly Bill
The Untamed Breed
Movie • 1948
John Rambeau
My Son Is Guilty
Movie • 1939
Dan, Bartender
The Great Missouri Raid
Movie • 1951
Dr. Samuels
Silver City
Movie • 1951
Dutch Surrency
The Black Arrow
Movie • 1948
Lawless
The Lonesome Trail
Movie • 1955
Dan Wells
Best Man Wins
Movie • 1948
Jim Smiley
Perilous Holiday
Movie • 1946
George Richards
The Richest Man in Town
Movie • 1941
Pete Martin
The Sea Hawk
Movie • 1940
Ben Rollins
Strange Affair
Movie • 1944
Lt. Washburn
The Wreck of the Hesperus
Movie • 1948
George Lockhart
Day of the Badman
Movie • 1958
Sam Wyckoff
It Happens Every Thursday
Movie • 1953
Jake
Tear Gas Squad
Movie • 1940
Cousin Andy
Hound-Dog Man
Movie • 1959
Doc Cole
Her First Beau
Movie • 1941
Elmer Tuttle
Chartroose Caboose
Movie • 1960
Woodrow 'Woody' Watts
The History of Hooterville
Movie • 2005
Self (archive footage)
Sam Cade
Movie • 1972
J.J. Jackson
The Marshal of Madrid
Movie • 1972
Deputy JJ Jackson
The Brush Roper
Movie • 1955
Sub Doyal
The Andy Griffith Show
TV • 1960
Henry Wheeler
Green Acres
TV • 1965
Uncle Joe Carson
The Beverly Hillbillies
TV • 1962
Uncle Joe Carson
Route 66
TV • 1960
Petticoat Junction
TV • 1963
Uncle Joe Carson
The Mod Squad
TV • 1968
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Andy Templet
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Dan
Studio One
TV • 1948
Dan Ferris
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Buckskin
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Doc Bolton
The Tall Man
TV • 1960
Leave It to Beaver
TV • 1957
Captain Jack
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Pops
Bringing Up Buddy
TV • 1960
Outlaws
TV • 1960
Bus Stop
TV • 1961
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
The Millionaire
TV • 1955
William Eliot Vaughan
Thriller
TV • 1960
Doc O'Connor
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Henry Maguire
Climax!
TV • 1954
Spencer
Bronco
TV • 1958
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
TV • 1956
National Velvet
TV • 1960
Grandpa Harwell
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Pop Michaels
The Rifleman
TV • 1958
Bat Masterson
TV • 1958
Cactus Charlie
Laramie
TV • 1959
Riverboat
TV • 1959
Wingate Pardee
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
Stoney Burke
TV • 1962
Vacation Playhouse
TV • 1963
Luke
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Steve Devitt
26 Men
TV • 1957
Judge Roy Bean
TV • 1955
Hopalong Cassidy
TV • 1952
Red Connors
Maverick
TV • 1957
Jed Christianson
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
TV • 1960
Judge Franklin
Route 66
TV • 1960
Magistrate Abe Chumley
Cade's County
TV • 1971
Senior Deputy J.J. Jackson
The Californians
TV • 1957
Major
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Ben Mattox
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Judge Wilfred Manning
The Rifleman
TV • 1958
Grandpa Fogarty
Maverick
TV • 1957
Daddy David Forge
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
York
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Colonel Starbottle
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Parson Meacham
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Preacher Bailey
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Doctor
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Timothy Dwight
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
Horace Greeley
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
Doc Mathew
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Chester Blake
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Judge Edward Daley
The Danny Thomas Show
TV • 1953
Captain Archie
Maverick
TV • 1957
Sheriff Hadley
Climax!
TV • 1954
Constable
The Restless Gun
TV • 1957
Ethan Greenfield
Stagecoach West
TV • 1960
Lum Jensen
The Lloyd Bridges Show
TV • 1962
Doc Lawton
The Gale Storm Show
TV • 1956
Jasper Stokes
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Hallelujah Hicks
The Rifleman
TV • 1958
Doc J. Burrage
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Thaddeus Briscoe
Trackdown
TV • 1957
Tully Saxon
The Ford Television Theatre
TV • 1952
Papa Mumby
The Partridge Family
TV • 1970
Judge McElwreath