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Edgar Buchanan

Edgar Buchanan

Actor · 1903 – 1979 · Humansville, Missouri, USA

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.

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  • Movie6.6

    McLintock!

    1963 · 266 votes

  • Movie7.3

    Shane

    1953 · 708 votes

  • Movie7.1

    Ride the High Country

    1962 · 253 votes

  • Movie6.7

    The Comancheros

    1961 · 219 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Cimarron

    1960 · 80 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Cheaper by the Dozen

    1950 · 89 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Destry

    1954 · 37 votes

  • Movie7.2

    The Sea Hawk

    1940 · 162 votes

  • Movie7.3

    The Talk of the Town

    1942 · 133 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Lust for Gold

    1949 · 30 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Penny Serenade

    1941 · 125 votes

  • Movie5.9

    The Desperadoes

    1943 · 31 votes

  • Movie5.3
  • Movie5.5

    The Rounders

    1965 · 32 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Texas

    1941 · 25 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Donovan's Reef

    1963 · 164 votes

  • Movie5.3

    Welcome to Hard Times

    1967 · 26 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Wichita

    1955 · 60 votes

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    It Started with a Kiss

    1959 · 17 votes

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    1947 · 29 votes

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    Abilene Town

    1946 · 27 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Human Desire

    1954 · 148 votes

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    The Sheepman

    1958 · 66 votes

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    Perry Mason

    1957 · 139 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Merv Griffin Show

    1962 · 12 votes

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    Bonanza

    1959 · 500 votes

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    Maverick

    1957 · 43 votes

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    1960 · 175 votes

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    Dr. Kildare

    1961 · 19 votes

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    1958 · 54 votes

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    1957 · 31 votes

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    1957 · 44 votes

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    1948 · 13 votes

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    1959 · 1.1K votes

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    1954 · 12 votes

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    The Partridge Family

    1970 · 35 votes

  • TV6.9

    The Beverly Hillbillies

    1962 · 139 votes

  • TV7.8

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    1955 · 266 votes

  • TV6.7

    Route 66

    1960 · 20 votes

  • TV5.9

    Petticoat Junction

    1963 · 42 votes

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    Wanted: Dead or Alive

    1958 · 38 votes

  • TV6.7

    Gunsmoke

    1955 · 119 votes

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    Leave It to Beaver

    1957 · 90 votes

  • TV7.2

    Green Acres

    1965 · 80 votes

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    The Millionaire

    1955 · 4 votes

  • TV6.7

    Thriller

    1960 · 20 votes

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    Bat Masterson

    1958 · 16 votes