Cast

Edgar Buchanan

Acting

Cast

Edgar Buchanan

Known for

Acting

Born

1903-03-20

From

Humansville, Missouri, USA

Died

1979-04-04

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. 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.

Edgar Buchanan

Edgar Buchanan

Biography

Shane

McLintock!

Cheaper by the Dozen

Destry

Stump Run

The Comancheros

Donovan's Reef

The Sea of Grass

Benji

The Sea Hawk

Move Over, Darling

Ride the High Country

The Sheepman

A Ticklish Affair

Chartroose Caboose

The Man from Colorado

Hound-Dog Man

The Rounders

The Desperadoes

Welcome to Hard Times

It Started with a Kiss

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Wichita

Cave of Outlaws

Devil's Partner

The Talk of the Town

Angel in My Pocket

Cimarron

Dawn at Socorro

The Over the Hill Gang

Too Many Husbands

Penny Serenade

The Big Trees

Rawhide

Human Desire

The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again

Destroyer

Good Luck, Mr. Yates

When the Daltons Rode

The Silver Star

Make Haste to Live

The Bandit of Sherwood Forest

You Belong to Me

Any Number Can Play

Devil's Doorway

Lust for Gold

Abilene Town

Edge of Eternity

Her First Beau

Four Fast Guns

The Walking Hills

Texas

Coroner Creek

Day of the Badman

Arizona

Yuma

Rage at Dawn

Buffalo Bill

Gunpoint

She Couldn't Say No

Flaming Feather

The Marshal of Madrid

Framed

Adventures in Silverado

The Impatient Years

Sam Cade

Cargo to Capetown

Spoilers of the Forest

The History of Hooterville

Tammy Tell Me True

The Wreck of the Hesperus

Renegades

Tear Gas Squad

The Big Hangover

The Black Arrow

The Great Missouri Raid

Silver City