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