Edgar Buchanan

Acting · 1.8 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

The Comancheros

19616.7

McLintock!

19636.6

Ride the High Country

19627.0

Cheaper by the Dozen

19506.4

The Sea Hawk

19407.2

Donovan's Reef

19636.2

Cimarron

19606.2

Destry

19546.1

The Rounders

19655.5

Wichita

19556.3

The Sheepman

19586.9

Benji

19746.4

Penny Serenade

19416.6

Move Over, Darling

19636.7

The Walking Hills

19496.0

The Man from Colorado

19486.8

Angel in My Pocket

19696.2

Human Desire

19546.7

The Talk of the Town

19427.3

Abilene Town

19465.3

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

19837.0

Gunpoint

19666.2

Rawhide

19516.8

Texas

19416.7

Four Fast Guns

19606.0

The Big Trees

19525.6

Stump Run

196010.0

Arizona

19406.5

The Desperadoes

19435.9

It Started with a Kiss

19595.5

A Ticklish Affair

19635.9

Lust for Gold

19496.0

The Sea of Grass

19476.1

Red Canyon

19495.8

Devil's Doorway

19506.9

The Bandit of Sherwood Forest

19465.3

Edge of Eternity

19596.7

The Over the Hill Gang

19695.8

The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again

19705.6

Welcome to Hard Times

19675.3

Day of the Badman

19586.9

Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die

19426.1

Cave of Outlaws

19515.4

Buffalo Bill

19445.8

King of the Wild Stallions

19596.8

Destroyer

19436.8

Adventures in Silverado

19487.0

Framed

19476.5

Flaming Feather

19526.2

Too Many Husbands

19406.5

Toughest Man in Arizona

19527.0

Silver City

19516.6

When the Daltons Rode

19406.2

Hound-Dog Man

19594.7

The Silver Star

19555.5

The Black Arrow

19485.5

Yuma

19716.0

Rage at Dawn

19556.2

Chartroose Caboose

196010.0

The Impatient Years

19446.4

Make Haste to Live

19546.0

Coroner Creek

19486.2

The Man from Button Willow

19655.3

Something for a Lonely Man

19687.6

She Couldn't Say No

19545.7

Any Number Can Play

19496.9

You Belong to Me

19416.0

Dawn at Socorro

19547.2

Spoilers of the Forest

19576.0

Tammy Tell Me True

19616.3

Renegades

19465.8

The History of Hooterville

2005

Come Next Spring

19565.9

The Big Hangover

19506.4

The Walls Came Tumbling Down

19466.2

Flashing Spikes

19626.8

Perilous Holiday

19468.0

City Without Men

19435.7

Sam Cade

1972

Her First Beau

19416.5

It Happens Every Thursday

19536.3

The Richest Man in Town

194110.0

Strange Affair

19446.2

The Untamed Breed

19486.5

Devil's Partner

19615.6

Escape to Glory

19407.5

Tear Gas Squad

19405.3

The Great Missouri Raid

19516.8

The Swordsman

19487.3

The Fighting Guardsman

19458.5

The Marshal of Madrid

1972

The Lonesome Trail

19558.0

My Son Is Guilty

19397.5

Cargo to Capetown

19506.6

The Wreck of the Hesperus

19487.0

Wild Stallion

19526.3

Bride by Mistake

19446.7

Good Luck, Mr. Yates

19436.5

The Brush Roper

1955

If I'm Lucky

19466.7

Best Man Wins

19487.0