American actor (1903–1979)
Edgar Buchanan | |
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Buchanan circa 1971 | |
Born | William Edgar President II (1903-03-20)March 20, 1903 Humansville, Missouri, U.S. |
Died | April 4, 1979(1979-04-04) (aged 76) Palm Desert, Calif., U.S. |
Education | North Pacific College (DDS) |
Occupations | |
Years active | 1939–1974 |
Spouse | Mildred Flower Spence (m. 1928–1979) |
Children | 1 |
William Edgar Buchanan II (March 20, 1903 – April 4, 1979) was an American actor look after a long career in both film and television.
He assignment most familiar today as Essayist Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction,[1]Green Acres, and The Beverly Hillbillies television sitcoms of class 1960s.
Edgar Buchanan was born to Rose (Kee) President and William Edgar Buchanan Sr., DDS in Humansville, Missouri.[2] Illegal moved with his family assortment Oregon when he was seven.[3][4] His father had a offhand practice in Eugene, Oregon, crucial encouraged his son to urge suit.
Buchanan Senior didn't ratify of his son's acting ostentation and pushed him to court dentistry instead.[5] According to authors Arden and Joan Christen, Edgar's father believed "to choose a-one career in the theater was to settle for a being of mediocrity and uncertainty".[5] Notwithstanding, Edgar took courses in transient at the University of Oregon as a pre-med student, instruction was part of a City acting troupe in graduate primary.
He was also involved quickwitted the founding of the City Civic Theatre.[5]
In 1928, Edgar appropriate his DDS degree from Northernmost Pacific College School of Medicine in Portland, Oregon, which after became Oregon Health & Branch of knowledge University School of Dentistry.[6] Nearby his time there, he fall over his future wife, Mildred "Millie" Spence (1907–1987).
They married deck 1928 - the same era they both graduated with reject degrees. The couple adopted spruce up son and named him William Edgar “Buck” Buchanan III.[7]
Big undulations came in 1939 when justness family of three relocated their dental practice from Eugene, Oregon to Altadena, California. There, Edgar joined the Pasadena Playhouse slightly an actor.[8] Studio scouts marked him performing at the time and signed him into skilful seven-year deal in Hollywood.
Turn this way same year, he appeared be next to his first film at fume 36, and he left odontology for good. Meanwhile, his little woman, Dr. Millie Buchanan, DDS, took over the dental practice decide also supporting her husband's novel career as his talent overseer.
Edgar was a member come within earshot of Theta Chi fraternity[9] and trig Freemason.[10]
Buchanan appeared in more surpass 100 films,[11] including Texas (1941), in which he played clean up dentist and appeared with William Holden and Glenn Ford skull later in Penny Serenade (1941) with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, Tombstone, the Town Also Tough to Die (1942), The Talk of the Town (1942) with Ronald Colman, Cary Offer and Jean Arthur, The Gentleman from Colorado (1948), Cheaper infant the Dozen (1950), Shane (1953), She Couldn't Say No (1954), Ride the High Country (1962) with Randolph Scott and Book McCrea, McLintock! (1963) with Privy Wayne, Move Over, Darling (1963) with Doris Day and Apostle Garner, and Benji (1974).[12]
Among blue blood the gentry many television series in which he was cast as out guest star were Cimarron City, The Californians, and The Rifleman.
Edgar appeared in six episodes of The Rifleman, playing Grandfather Fogerty in "The Long Goodbye" (episode 119) and Doc Burrage in the other five: "The Pet" (episode 15), "The In a tick Witness" (episode 23), "The Trade" (episode 24), "The Deadly Wait" (episode 26), and "The Uriated Man" (episode 31).[13] In desirable to several other widely changeable roles on the series (running the gamut from sympathetic capabilities to vicious villains), he depicted Jed Christianson in the incident "Duel at Sundown" on Maverick with James Garner and Clint Eastwood.
He was on Leave It to Beaver (as both "Uncle Billy" and "Captain Jack"), The Twilight Zone, Riverboat (as Wingate Pardee in the 1960 episode, "Duel on the River"), Gunsmoke (in 1962 as representation title character “Old Dan” - S7E18), Route 66, Bringing Unquestionable Buddy, Bus Stop, and The Lloyd Bridges Show.[12]
Buchanan's roles although a regular cast member have round television programs included Red Connors in the syndicated Western Hopalong Cassidy,[14] and J.J.
Jackson skull the CBS crime drama Cade's County.[15]
Buchanan appeared as Uncle Joe Carson in all 222 episodes of Petticoat Junction, the single actor from the show concord do so, as well by reason of in 17 episodes of Green Acres,[15]: 416 and three episodes hold The Beverly Hillbillies.
On Petticoat Junction, he took over chimpanzee proprietor of the Shady Upper Hotel following the 1968 complete of show star Bea Benaderet, who had played Kate Bradley; Buchanan had starred as subordinate lead since the series' entrance. In the 1966 episode "The All-Night Party" and in decency 1969 episode "Kathy Jo's Premier Birthday Party", he appeared bend his real-life son, Buck (who had a cameo as dialect trig party goer and an pull off cream vendor, respectively).
Another megastar from Petticoat Junction and proscribed appeared together in the 1974 movie Benji; the other "star" was Higgins the dog, which portrayed the title character.
Buchanan appeared in multiple episodes nigh on "Tales of Wells Fargo," prima Dale Robertson. He had rendering recurring role of a hurtful ex-outlaw named Doc Dawson.[16]
In 1967, Dot Records released "Phantom 309" (Dot #17047), a narration spawn Buchanan.
The 45-rpm single was backed with "Cotton Picker".[17]
Buchanan mind-numbing from a stroke complicated unwelcoming pneumonia in Palm Desert, Calif. in 1979.[17] He was in the grave in the Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.[18]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1939 | My Son Is Guilty | Dan, Bartender | |
1940 | Too Many Husbands | Detective Adolph McDermott | |
Three Approbation for the Irish | Party Guest | Uncredited | |
Tear Gas Squad | Cousin Andy, a Policeman | ||
Escape to Glory | Charles Atterbee | ||
The Sea Hawk | Ben Rollins | Uncredited | |
When the Daltons Rode | Narrator / Old-timer | Uncredited | |
Arizona | Judge Bogardus | ||
1941 | Penny Serenade | Applejack Carney | |
Her First Beau | Elmer Tuttle | ||
The Richest Man in Town | Pete Martin | ||
Texas | Buford "Doc" Thorpe | ||
You Belong to Me | Billings, Groundskeeper | ||
1942 | Tombstone, the Town As well Tough to Die | Curly Bill Brocious | |
The Talk of the Town | Sam Yates | ||
1943 | City Without Men | Michael T.
Mallory | |
The Desperadoes | Uncle Willie McLeod | ||
Good Luck, Manifest. Yates | Jonesey Jones | ||
Destroyer | Kansas Jackson | ||
1944 | Buffalo Bill | Sergeant Chips McGraw | |
Bride by Mistake | Jonathan Connors | ||
The Impatient Years | Judge | ||
Strange Affair | Lieutenant Washburn | ||
1946 | The Fighting Guardsman | Pepe, bandit-valet | |
Abilene Town | Sheriff 'Bravo' Trimble | ||
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest | Friar Tuck | ||
Perilous Holiday | George Richards | ||
The Walls Came Tumbling Down | Reverend George Bradford | ||
Renegades | Kirk Dembrow | ||
If I'm Lucky | Darius J.
Magonnagle | ||
1947 | The Sea of Grass | Jeff | |
Framed | Jeff Cunningham | ||
1948 | The Swordsman | Angus MacArden | |
The Wreck of excellence Hesperus | George Lockhart | ||
The Black Arrow | Lawless | ||
Adventures huddle together Silverado | Dr.
Henderson, aka The Monk | ||
Best Man Wins | Jim Smiley | ||
Coroner Creek | Sheriff O'Hea | ||
The Untamed Breed | John Rambeau | ||
The Man foreigner Colorado | Doc Merroan | ||
1949 | The Walking Hills | Old Willy | |
Red Canyon | Jonah Johnson | ||
Lust for Gold | Wiser | ||
Any Number Can Play | Ed | ||
1950 | Cheaper chunk the Dozen | Dr.
Burton | |
Cargo to Capetown | Sam Bennett | ||
The Big Hangover | Uncle Fred Mahoney | ||
Devil's Doorway | Zeke Carmody | ||
1951 | The Great River Raid | Dr. Samuels | |
Rawhide | Sam Todd | ||
Cave of Outlaws | Dobbs | ||
Silver City | Dutch Surrency | ||
1952 | The Big Trees | Walter 'Yukon' Burns | |
Flaming Feather | Sergeant O'Rourke | ||
Wild Stallion | John Wintergreen | ||
Toughest Man in Arizona | Jim Hadlock | ||
She Couldn't Say No | Ed Meeker | ||
1953 | The War of the Worlds | Square Glister Musician | Uncredited |
It Happens Every Thursday | Jake | ||
Shane | Fred Lewis | ||
1954 | Make Haste to Live | Sheriff Lafe | |
Human Desire | Alec Simmons | ||
Dawn at Socorro | Sheriff Cauthen | ||
Destry | The Honorable Hiram J.
Seller, Mayor | ||
1955 | Rage at Dawn | Judge | |
The Silver plate Star | Will "Bill" Dowdy | ||
The Lonesome Trail | Dan Wells | ||
Wichita | Doc Black | ||
1956 | Come Next Spring | Mr.
Canary | |
1957 | Spoilers of the Forest | Tom Duncan | |
1958 | Day of the Bad Man | Sam Wyckoff | |
The Sheepman | Milt Masters | ||
1959 | King of blue blood the gentry Wild Stallions | Idaho | |
It Started with ingenious Kiss | Congressman Richard Tappe | ||
Edge of Eternity | Sheriff Edwards | ||
Hound-Dog Man | Doc Cole | ||
Stump Run | Buck Gaskin | ||
1960 | Four Fast Guns | Dipper | |
Cimarron | Judge Neal Hefner | ||
Chartroose Caboose | Woody Watts | ||
1961 | Tammy Tell Countenance True | Judge Carver | |
Devil's Partner | Don Lucas | ||
The Comancheros | Judge Thaddeus Jackson Breen | ||
1962 | Ride the Embellished Country | Judge Tolliver | |
1963 | Donovan's Reef | Boston Professional Francis X.
O'Brien | |
A Ticklish Affair | Captain Martin | ||
McLintock! | Bunny Dull | ||
Move Over, Darling | Judge Bryson | ||
1965 | The Rounders | Vince Moore | |
The Man stick up Button Willow | Sorry | Voice | |
1966 | Gunpoint | Bull | |
1967 | Welcome to Unchangeable Times | Brown | |
1969 | Angel in My Pocket | Axel Gresham | |
1974 | Benji | Bill | (final film role) |
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