Edgar Buchanan
Acting
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.
TV Shows(53)
Cade's County
Senior Deputy J.J. Jackson
1971
The Partridge Family
Judge McElwreath
1970
The Mod Squad
Hargis
1968
Green Acres
Uncle Joe Carson
1965
Petticoat Junction
Uncle Joe Carson
1963
Vacation Playhouse
Luke
1963
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
Stoney Burke
1962
The Beverly Hillbillies
Uncle Joe Carson
1962
The Lloyd Bridges Show
Doc Lawton
1962
Bus Stop
1961
Dr. Kildare
Steve Devitt
1961
Bringing Up Buddy
1960
Route 66
1960
Stagecoach West
Lum Jensen
1960
The Andy Griffith Show
Henry Wheeler
1960
Outlaws
1960
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Judge Franklin
1960
National Velvet
Grandpa Harwell
1960
Thriller
Doc O'Connor
1960
The Tall Man
1960
The Twilight Zone
Doc Bolton
1959
Laramie
1959
Riverboat
Wingate Pardee
1959
Bonanza
Hallelujah Hicks
1959
Bat Masterson
Cactus Charlie
1958
The Rifleman
1958
Bronco
1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Pop Michaels
1958
26 Men
1957
Leave It to Beaver
Captain Jack
1957
Trackdown
Tully Saxon
1957
The Californians
Major
1957
The Restless Gun
Ethan Greenfield
1957
Maverick
Jed Christianson
1957
Perry Mason
Andy Templet
1957
Wagon Train
Ben Mattox
1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
The Gale Storm Show
Jasper Stokes
1956
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Pops
1955
Gunsmoke
Dan
1955
Judge Roy Bean
1955
The Millionaire
William Eliot Vaughan
1955
Climax!
Spencer
1954
The Danny Thomas Show
Captain Archie
1953
General Electric Theater
Buckskin
1953
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
Park Commissioner
1952
The Ford Television Theatre
Papa Mumby
1952
Cavalcade of America
1952
Hopalong Cassidy
Red Connors
1952
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Henry Maguire
1951
Studio One
Dan Ferris
1948
Movies(102)
The History of Hooterville
Self (archive footage)
2005
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
Benji
Bill
1974
The Marshal of Madrid
Deputy JJ Jackson
1972
Sam Cade
J.J. Jackson
1972
Yuma
Mules McNeil
1971
The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again
Jason Fitch
1970
The Over the Hill Gang
Jason Fitch
1969
Angel in My Pocket
Axel Gresham
1969
Something for a Lonely Man
Old Man Wolenski
1968
Welcome to Hard Times
Brown
1967
Gunpoint
Bull
1966
The Man from Button Willow
Sorry (voice)
1965
The Rounders
Vince Moore
1965
Move Over, Darling
Judge Bryson
1963
McLintock!
Bunny Dull
1963
A Ticklish Affair
Captain Martin / Gramps
1963
Donovan's Reef
Francis O'Brien
1963
Flashing Spikes
Crab Holman
1962
Ride the High Country
Judge Tolliver
1962
The Comancheros
Circuit Court Judge Thaddeus Jackson Breen
1961
Devil's Partner
Doc Lucas
1961
Tammy Tell Me True
Judge Carver
1961
Chartroose Caboose
Woodrow 'Woody' Watts
1960
Cimarron
Judge Neal Hefner
1960
Four Fast Guns
Dipper
1960
Stump Run
1960
Hound-Dog Man
Doc Cole
1959
Edge of Eternity
Sheriff Edwards
1959
It Started with a Kiss
Congressman Richard Tappe
1959
King of the Wild Stallions
Idaho
1959
The Sheepman
Milt Masters
1958
Day of the Badman
Sam Wyckoff
1958
Spoilers of the Forest
Tom Duncan
1957
Come Next Spring
Mr. Canary
1956
The Brush Roper
Sub Doyal
1955
Wichita
Doc Black
1955
The Lonesome Trail
Dan Wells
1955
The Silver Star
Will 'Bill' Dowdy (as Edgar Buchanon)
1955
Rage at Dawn
Judge
1955
Destry
The Honorable Hiram J. Sellers, Mayor
1954
Dawn at Socorro
Sheriff Cauthen
1954
Human Desire
Alec Simmons
1954
Make Haste to Live
Sheriff Lafe
1954
She Couldn't Say No
Ed Meeker
1954
Shane
Fred Lewis
1953
It Happens Every Thursday
Jake
1953
Toughest Man in Arizona
Jim Hadlock
1952
Wild Stallion
John Wintergreen
1952
The Big Trees
Walter 'Yukon' Burns
1952
Flaming Feather
Sgt. O'Rourke
1952
Silver City
Dutch Surrency
1951
Cave of Outlaws
Dobbs
1951
Rawhide
Sam Todd
1951
The Great Missouri Raid
Dr. Samuels
1951
Devil's Doorway
Zeke Carmody
1950
The Big Hangover
Uncle Fred Mahoney
1950
Cargo to Capetown
Sam Bennett
1950
Cheaper by the Dozen
Dr. Burton
1950
Any Number Can Play
Ed
1949
Lust for Gold
Wiser
1949
Red Canyon
Jonah Johnson
1949
The Walking Hills
Old Willy
1949
The Untamed Breed
John Rambeau
1948
The Man from Colorado
Doc Merriam
1948
Coroner Creek
Sheriff O'Hea
1948
Best Man Wins
Jim Smiley
1948
Adventures in Silverado
Dr. Hendersonn
1948
The Black Arrow
Lawless
1948
The Wreck of the Hesperus
George Lockhart
1948
The Swordsman
Angus MacArden
1948
Framed
Jeff Cunningham
1947
The Sea of Grass
Jeff
1947
If I'm Lucky
Darius J. Magonnagle
1946
Renegades
Kirk Dembrow
1946
The Walls Came Tumbling Down
George Bradford
1946
Perilous Holiday
George Richards
1946
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest
Friar Tuck
1946
Abilene Town
Sheriff Bravo Trimble
1946
The Fighting Guardsman
Brown
1945
Strange Affair
Lt. Washburn
1944
The Impatient Years
Judge
1944
Bride by Mistake
Jonathan Connors
1944
Buffalo Bill
Sgt. Chips McGraw
1944
Destroyer
Kansas Jackson
1943
Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Jonesey Jones
1943
The Desperadoes
Uncle Willie McLeod
1943
City Without Men
Judge Michael T. Mallory
1943
The Talk of the Town
Sam Yates
1942
Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
Curly Bill
1942
You Belong to Me
Billings
1941
Texas
Buford 'Doc' Thorpe
1941
The Richest Man in Town
Pete Martin
1941
Her First Beau
Elmer Tuttle
1941
Penny Serenade
Applejack Carney
1941
Arizona
Judge Bogardus
1940
When the Daltons Rode
Narrator / Old-Timer (uncredited)
1940
The Sea Hawk
Ben Rollins
1940
Escape to Glory
Charles Atterbee
1940
Tear Gas Squad
Cousin Andy
1940
Too Many Husbands
McDermott
1940
My Son Is Guilty
Dan, Bartender
1939