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