Edgar Buchanan

Acting March 20, 1903 (76 years old) April 4, 1979 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.

Edgar Buchanan

Biography

Movies 102

McLintock!

Shane

Ride the High Country

Cheaper by the Dozen

The Comancheros

Donovan's Reef

Wichita

The Sea Hawk

Renegades

The Rounders

The Man from Colorado

Cimarron

The Talk of the Town

The Desperadoes

Rawhide

Benji

Destry

Texas

Day of the Badman

Move Over, Darling

It Started with a Kiss

When the Daltons Rode

The Sea of Grass

Gunpoint

Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die

Any Number Can Play

Coroner Creek

Devil's Doorway

Welcome to Hard Times

The Sheepman

Spoilers of the Forest

Abilene Town

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

The Bandit of Sherwood Forest

Penny Serenade

The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again

The Over the Hill Gang

A Ticklish Affair

Human Desire

Lust for Gold

Destroyer

Make Haste to Live

Rage at Dawn

King of the Wild Stallions

Flaming Feather

Devil's Partner

The Great Missouri Raid

Too Many Husbands

Edge of Eternity

The Big Trees

Yuma

Red Canyon

Arizona

Come Next Spring

Silver City

The Walking Hills

The Richest Man in Town

Cave of Outlaws

Framed

Angel in My Pocket

The Black Arrow

Four Fast Guns

The Silver Star

You Belong to Me

The Marshal of Madrid

My Son Is Guilty

The Big Hangover

The Walls Came Tumbling Down

The Man from Button Willow

Dawn at Socorro

Hound-Dog Man

Toughest Man in Arizona

Tammy Tell Me True

She Couldn't Say No

The History of Hooterville

Something for a Lonely Man

It Happens Every Thursday