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