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