Edgar Buchanan

Acting · 1.6 popularity

Age

123

Movies

102

Born: March 20, 1903 – April 4, 1979
From: Humansville, Missouri, USA

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. 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.

Works

102 films

Shane

19537.3

McLintock!

19636.6

The Comancheros

19616.7

Ride the High Country

19627.0

Cheaper by the Dozen

19506.4

Donovan's Reef

19636.2

The Sea Hawk

19407.2

Benji

19746.4

Destry

19546.1

The Rounders

19655.5

Cimarron

19606.2

Move Over, Darling

19636.7

The Sheepman

19586.9

Gunpoint

19666.2

Penny Serenade

19416.6

Wichita

19556.3

Welcome to Hard Times

19675.3

Rawhide

19516.8

It Started with a Kiss

19595.5

The Talk of the Town

19427.3

The Man from Colorado

19486.8

The Walking Hills

19496.0

Abilene Town

19465.3

Human Desire

19546.7

A Ticklish Affair

19635.9

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

19837.0

Arizona

19406.5

The Desperadoes

19435.9

The Big Trees

19525.6

Texas

19416.7

Edge of Eternity

19596.7

Angel in My Pocket

19696.2

Stump Run

196010.0

Something for a Lonely Man

19687.6

The Bandit of Sherwood Forest

19465.3

When the Daltons Rode

19406.2

Renegades

19465.8

Devil's Doorway

19506.9

Hound-Dog Man

19594.7

The Silver Star

19555.5

Four Fast Guns

19606.0

Chartroose Caboose

196010.0

Lust for Gold

19496.0

The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again

19705.6

Rage at Dawn

19556.2

Destroyer

19436.8

Adventures in Silverado

19487.0

King of the Wild Stallions

19596.8

Cave of Outlaws

19515.4

The Walls Came Tumbling Down

19466.2

Toughest Man in Arizona

19527.0

The Over the Hill Gang

19695.8

The Sea of Grass

19476.1

Silver City

19516.6

Day of the Badman

19586.9

Red Canyon

19495.8

Framed

19476.5

Too Many Husbands

19406.5

You Belong to Me

19416.0

She Couldn't Say No

19545.7

Any Number Can Play

19496.9

Flaming Feather

19526.2

Yuma

19716.0

Make Haste to Live

19546.0

Tammy Tell Me True

19616.3

Buffalo Bill

19445.8

The History of Hooterville

2005

The Black Arrow

19485.5

The Man from Button Willow

19655.3

City Without Men

19435.7

The Untamed Breed

19486.5

The Richest Man in Town

194110.0

Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die

19426.1

Dawn at Socorro

19547.2

Her First Beau

19416.5

Spoilers of the Forest

19576.0

Coroner Creek

19486.2

Come Next Spring

19565.9

The Impatient Years

19446.3

The Marshal of Madrid

1972

Sam Cade

1972

The Great Missouri Raid

19516.8

It Happens Every Thursday

19536.3

The Big Hangover

19506.4

The Wreck of the Hesperus

19487.0

Devil's Partner

19615.6

Good Luck, Mr. Yates

19436.5

Flashing Spikes

19626.8

The Fighting Guardsman

19458.5

The Lonesome Trail

19558.0

Strange Affair

19446.2

Cargo to Capetown

19506.6

Tear Gas Squad

19405.3

The Swordsman

19487.3

My Son Is Guilty

19397.5

Perilous Holiday

19468.0

If I'm Lucky

19466.7

Wild Stallion

19526.3

Bride by Mistake

19446.7

Escape to Glory

19407.5

Best Man Wins

19487.0

The Brush Roper

1955