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