Edgar Buchanan
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 20, 1903
- Died
- April 4, 1979
- Birthplace
- Humansville, Missouri, USA
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
The History of Hooterville 2005
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage 1983
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Benji 1974
as Bill
Sam Cade 1972
as J.J. Jackson
The Marshal of Madrid 1972
as Deputy JJ Jackson
Yuma 1971
as Mules McNeil
The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again 1970
as Jason Fitch
The Over the Hill Gang 1969
as Jason Fitch
Angel in My Pocket 1969
as Axel Gresham
Something for a Lonely Man 1968
as Old Man Wolenski
Welcome to Hard Times 1967
as Brown
Gunpoint 1966
as Bull
The Man from Button Willow 1965
as Sorry (voice)
The Rounders 1965
as Vince Moore
Move Over, Darling 1963
as Judge Bryson
McLintock! 1963
as Bunny Dull
A Ticklish Affair 1963
as Captain Martin / Gramps
Donovan's Reef 1963
as Francis O'Brien
Flashing Spikes 1962
as Crab Holman
Ride the High Country 1962
as Judge Tolliver
The Comancheros 1961
as Circuit Court Judge Thaddeus Jackson Breen
Devil's Partner 1961
as Doc Lucas
Tammy Tell Me True 1961
as Judge Carver
Chartroose Caboose 1960
as Woodrow 'Woody' Watts
Cimarron 1960
as Judge Neal Hefner
Four Fast Guns 1960
as Dipper
Stump Run 1960
Actor
Hound-Dog Man 1959
as Doc Cole
Edge of Eternity 1959
as Sheriff Edwards
It Started with a Kiss 1959
as Richard Tappe
King of the Wild Stallions 1959
as Idaho
The Sheepman 1958
as Milt Masters
Day of the Badman 1958
as Sam Wyckoff
Spoilers of the Forest 1957
as Tom Duncan
Come Next Spring 1956
as Mr. Canary
The Brush Roper 1955
as Sub Doyal
Wichita 1955
as Doc Black
The Lonesome Trail 1955
as Dan Wells
The Silver Star 1955
as Will 'Bill' Dowdy (as Edgar Buchanon)
Rage at Dawn 1955
as Judge
Destry 1954
as The Honorable Hiram J. Sellers, Mayor
Dawn at Socorro 1954
as Sheriff Cauthen
Human Desire 1954
as Alec Simmons
Make Haste to Live 1954
as Sheriff Lafe
She Couldn't Say No 1954
as Ed Meeker
Shane 1953
as Fred Lewis
It Happens Every Thursday 1953
as Jake
Toughest Man in Arizona 1952
as Jim Hadlock
Wild Stallion 1952
as John Wintergreen
The Big Trees 1952
as Walter 'Yukon' Burns
Flaming Feather 1952
as Sgt. O'Rourke
Silver City 1951
as Dutch Surrency
Cave of Outlaws 1951
as Dobbs
Rawhide 1951
as Sam Todd
The Great Missouri Raid 1951
as Dr. Samuels
Devil's Doorway 1950
as Zeke Carmody
The Big Hangover 1950
as Uncle Fred Mahoney
Cargo to Capetown 1950
as Sam Bennett
Cheaper by the Dozen 1950
as Dr. Burton
Any Number Can Play 1949
as Ed
Lust for Gold 1949
as Wiser
Red Canyon 1949
as Jonah Johnson
The Walking Hills 1949
as Old Willy
The Untamed Breed 1948
as John Rambeau
The Man from Colorado 1948
as Doc Merriam
Coroner Creek 1948
as Sheriff O'Hea
Best Man Wins 1948
as Jim Smiley
Adventures in Silverado 1948
as Dr. Hendersonn
The Black Arrow 1948
as Lawless
The Wreck of the Hesperus 1948
as George Lockhart
The Swordsman 1948
as Angus MacArden
Framed 1947
as Jeff Cunningham
The Sea of Grass 1947
as Jeff
If I'm Lucky 1946
as Darius J. Magonnagle
Renegades 1946
as Kirk Dembrow
The Walls Came Tumbling Down 1946
as George Bradford
Perilous Holiday 1946
as George Richards
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest 1946
as Friar Tuck
Abilene Town 1946
as Sheriff Bravo Trimble
The Fighting Guardsman 1945
as Brown
Strange Affair 1944
as Lt. Washburn
The Impatient Years 1944
as Judge
Bride by Mistake 1944
as Jonathan Connors
Buffalo Bill 1944
as Sgt. Chips McGraw
Destroyer 1943
as Kansas Jackson
Good Luck, Mr. Yates 1943
as Jonesey Jones
The Desperadoes 1943
as Uncle Willie McLeod
City Without Men 1943
as Judge Michael T. Mallory
The Talk of the Town 1942
as Sam Yates
Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die 1942
as Curly Bill
You Belong to Me 1941
as Billings
Texas 1941
as Buford 'Doc' Thorpe
The Richest Man in Town 1941
as Pete Martin
Her First Beau 1941
as Elmer Tuttle
Penny Serenade 1941
as Applejack
Arizona 1940
as Judge Bogardus
When the Daltons Rode 1940
as Narrator / Old-Timer (uncredited)
The Sea Hawk 1940
as Ben Rollins
Escape to Glory 1940
as Charles Atterbee
Tear Gas Squad 1940
as Cousin Andy
Too Many Husbands 1940
as McDermott
My Son Is Guilty 1939
as Dan, Bartender
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