Edgar Buchanan

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.

Known For	Acting
Most Rating	1.7033
Birthday	1903-03-20
Place of Birth	Humansville, Missouri, USA
Also Known As	William Edgar Buchanan II,

Shane

Move Over, Darling

The Comancheros

Human Desire

Benji

Abilene Town

The Talk of the Town

The Rounders

Devil's Doorway

Ride the High Country

Framed

Coroner Creek

The Big Trees

Rawhide

The Man from Colorado

McLintock!

Buffalo Bill

Penny Serenade

Donovan's Reef

Cargo to Capetown

Tammy Tell Me True

Cimarron

Make Haste to Live

The Over the Hill Gang

Lust for Gold

Destry

Yuma

Edge of Eternity

The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again

The Sea of Grass

The Walls Came Tumbling Down

You Belong to Me

Destroyer

Angel in My Pocket

Any Number Can Play

Too Many Husbands

A Ticklish Affair

Devil's Partner

The Bandit of Sherwood Forest

She Couldn't Say No

The Man from Button Willow

Cave of Outlaws

Wichita

When the Daltons Rode

Good Luck, Mr. Yates

Red Canyon

Welcome to Hard Times

Dawn at Socorro

The Impatient Years

Gunpoint

Four Fast Guns

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

It Started with a Kiss

Wild Stallion

Toughest Man in Arizona

The Big Hangover

Renegades

The Walking Hills

Bride by Mistake

Come Next Spring

If I'm Lucky

King of the Wild Stallions

The Sheepman

Cheaper by the Dozen

Escape to Glory

Adventures in Silverado

City Without Men

The Silver Star

Something for a Lonely Man

Arizona

Texas

Flaming Feather

Rage at Dawn

Spoilers of the Forest

The Fighting Guardsman

The Swordsman

Stump Run

The Desperadoes

Flashing Spikes

Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die