Edgar Buchanan
Known for Acting · 155 credits
- Born
- 1903-03-20
- Died
- 1979-04-04
- Place of birth
- Humansville, Missouri, USA
- Also known as
- William Edgar Buchanan II
Biography
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.
Known For
Perry Mason
1957
as Andy Templet / Judge Edward Daley
Bonanza
1959
as Hallelujah Hicks
The Andy Griffith Show
1960
as Henry Wheeler
The Rifleman
1958
as Grandpa Fogarty / Doc J. Burrage
Wagon Train
1957
as Ben Mattox / Thaddeus Briscoe
Maverick
1957
as Jed Christianson / Daddy David Forge / Sheriff Hadley
TV Shows (53)
Perry Mason
1957
as Andy Templet / Judge Edward Daley
Bonanza
1959
as Hallelujah Hicks
The Andy Griffith Show
1960
as Henry Wheeler
The Rifleman
1958
as Grandpa Fogarty / Doc J. Burrage
Wagon Train
1957
as Ben Mattox / Thaddeus Briscoe
Maverick
1957
as Jed Christianson / Daddy David Forge / Sheriff Hadley
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
The Twilight Zone
1959
as Doc Bolton
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
as Uncle Joe Carson
Climax!
1954
as Spencer / Constable
Dr. Kildare
1961
as Steve Devitt / Judge Wilfred Manning
Petticoat Junction
1963
as Uncle Joe Carson
Studio One
1948
as Dan Ferris
Leave It to Beaver
1957
as Captain Jack
Green Acres
1965
as Uncle Joe Carson
Route 66
1960
as Magistrate Abe Chumley
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
as Pop Michaels / Chester Blake
Gunsmoke
1955
as Dan / York
Thriller
1960
as Doc O'Connor
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
1952
as Park Commissioner
Bat Masterson
1958
as Cactus Charlie
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Pops
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
as Papa Mumby
The Partridge Family
1970
as Judge McElwreath
The Mod Squad
1968
as Hargis
Laramie
1959
Trackdown
1957
as Tully Saxon
The Millionaire
1955
as William Eliot Vaughan
Bronco
1958
The Danny Thomas Show
1953
as Captain Archie
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956
Riverboat
1959
as Wingate Pardee
Cavalcade of America
1952
as Horace Greeley / Doc Mathew
The Tall Man
1960
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960
as Judge Franklin
Outlaws
1960
Stagecoach West
1960
as Lum Jensen
Stoney Burke
1962
26 Men
1957
Bus Stop
1961
Hopalong Cassidy
1952
as Red Connors
The Restless Gun
1957
as Ethan Greenfield
National Velvet
1960
as Grandpa Harwell
Vacation Playhouse
1963
as Luke
The Gale Storm Show
1956
as Jasper Stokes
The Lloyd Bridges Show
1962
as Doc Lawton
The Californians
1957
as Major
General Electric Theater
1953
as Buckskin / Colonel Starbottle / Preacher Bailey / Parson Meacham / Doctor / Timothy Dwight
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
as Henry Maguire
Judge Roy Bean
1955
Bringing Up Buddy
1960
Cade's County
1971
as Senior Deputy J.J. Jackson
Movies (102)
Shane
1953
as Fred Lewis
McLintock!
1963
as Bunny Dull
The Comancheros
1961
as Circuit Court Judge Thaddeus Jackson Breen
The Desperadoes
1943
as Uncle Willie McLeod
Cimarron
1960
as Judge Neal Hefner
Ride the High Country
1962
as Judge Tolliver
Donovan's Reef
1963
as Francis O'Brien
Cheaper by the Dozen
1950
as Dr. Burton
Buffalo Bill
1944
as Sgt. Chips McGraw
Abilene Town
1946
as Sheriff Bravo Trimble
Rawhide
1951
as Sam Todd
The Sea Hawk
1940
as Ben Rollins
Wichita
1955
as Doc Black
The Sheepman
1958
as Milt Masters
Penny Serenade
1941
as Applejack Carney
The Man from Colorado
1948
as Doc Merriam
The Talk of the Town
1942
as Sam Yates
Gunpoint
1966
as Bull
Benji
1974
as Bill
Toughest Man in Arizona
1952
as Jim Hadlock
The Sea of Grass
1947
as Jeff
The Rounders
1965
as Vince Moore
The Over the Hill Gang
1969
as Jason Fitch
Texas
1941
as Buford 'Doc' Thorpe
Arizona
1940
as Judge Bogardus
Tear Gas Squad
1940
as Cousin Andy
Move Over, Darling
1963
as Judge Bryson
The Black Arrow
1948
as Lawless
Lust for Gold
1949
as Wiser
Human Desire
1954
as Alec Simmons
Destroyer
1943
as Kansas Jackson
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
1942
as Curly Bill
Edge of Eternity
1959
as Sheriff Edwards
Flaming Feather
1952
as Sgt. O'Rourke
Rage at Dawn
1955
as Judge
Destry
1954
as The Honorable Hiram J. Sellers, Mayor
Yuma
1971
as Mules McNeil
Dawn at Socorro
1954
as Sheriff Cauthen
Framed
1947
as Jeff Cunningham
When the Daltons Rode
1940
as Narrator / Old-Timer (uncredited)
The Big Trees
1952
as Walter 'Yukon' Burns
Any Number Can Play
1949
as Ed
Coroner Creek
1948
as Sheriff O'Hea
Red Canyon
1949
as Jonah Johnson
Something for a Lonely Man
1968
as Old Man Wolenski
The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again
1970
as Jason Fitch
Day of the Badman
1958
as Sam Wyckoff
You Belong to Me
1941
as Billings
It Started with a Kiss
1959
as Congressman Richard Tappe
A Ticklish Affair
1963
as Captain Martin / Gramps
Silver City
1951
as Dutch Surrency
Hound-Dog Man
1959
as Doc Cole
Devil's Doorway
1950
as Zeke Carmody
The Richest Man in Town
1941
as Pete Martin
Adventures in Silverado
1948
as Dr. Hendersonn
City Without Men
1943
as Judge Michael T. Mallory
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest
1946
as Friar Tuck
Devil's Partner
1961
as Doc Lucas
Welcome to Hard Times
1967
as Brown
Four Fast Guns
1960
as Dipper
Renegades
1946
as Kirk Dembrow
King of the Wild Stallions
1959
as Idaho
Flashing Spikes
1962
as Crab Holman
The Marshal of Madrid
1972
as Deputy JJ Jackson
The Walking Hills
1949
as Old Willy
Angel in My Pocket
1969
as Axel Gresham
Wild Stallion
1952
as John Wintergreen
Bride by Mistake
1944
as Jonathan Connors
She Couldn't Say No
1954
as Ed Meeker
It Happens Every Thursday
1953
as Jake
The Man from Button Willow
1965
as Sorry (voice)
Come Next Spring
1956
as Mr. Canary
Too Many Husbands
1940
as McDermott
Strange Affair
1944
as Lt. Washburn
The Walls Came Tumbling Down
1946
as George Bradford
Good Luck, Mr. Yates
1943
as Jonesey Jones
The Big Hangover
1950
as Uncle Fred Mahoney
Tammy Tell Me True
1961
as Judge Carver
Make Haste to Live
1954
as Sheriff Lafe
The Fighting Guardsman
1945
as Brown
The Swordsman
1948
as Angus MacArden
Spoilers of the Forest
1957
as Tom Duncan
The Impatient Years
1944
as Judge
Her First Beau
1941
as Elmer Tuttle
The Silver Star
1955
as Will 'Bill' Dowdy (as Edgar Buchanon)
Best Man Wins
1948
as Jim Smiley
Cave of Outlaws
1951
as Dobbs
The Great Missouri Raid
1951
as Dr. Samuels
The History of Hooterville
2005
as Self (archive footage)
The Wreck of the Hesperus
1948
as George Lockhart
The Untamed Breed
1948
as John Rambeau
Escape to Glory
1940
as Charles Atterbee
Sam Cade
1972
as J.J. Jackson
The Lonesome Trail
1955
as Dan Wells
Chartroose Caboose
1960
as Woodrow 'Woody' Watts
My Son Is Guilty
1939
as Dan, Bartender
Cargo to Capetown
1950
as Sam Bennett
Perilous Holiday
1946
as George Richards
If I'm Lucky
1946
as Darius J. Magonnagle
Stump Run
1960
The Brush Roper
1955
as Sub Doyal
About Edgar Buchanan
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… With 155 credits spanning from 1939 to 2005, Edgar Buchanan has appeared in 102 films and 53 TV shows.
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Most Popular Edgar Buchanan Movies
- Shane (1953) — as Fred Lewis
- McLintock! (1963) — as Bunny Dull
- The Comancheros (1961) — as Circuit Court Judge Thaddeus Jackson Breen
- The Desperadoes (1943) — as Uncle Willie McLeod
- Cimarron (1960) — as Judge Neal Hefner
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