Birthday
1903/03/20
Day of death
1979/04/04 (76 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Humansville, Missouri, USA
Also know as
William Edgar Buchanan II
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edgar Buchanan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
(1953) Shane
as Fred Lewis
(1963) Move Over, Darling
as Judge Bryson
(1961) The Comancheros
as Circuit Court Judge Thaddeus Jackson Breen
(1954) Human Desire
as Alec Simmons
(1974) Benji
as Bill
(1946) Abilene Town
as Sheriff Bravo Trimble
(1942) The Talk of the Town
as Sam Yates
(1965) The Rounders
as Vince Moore
(1950) Devil's Doorway
as Zeke Carmody
(1962) Ride the High Country
as Judge Tolliver
(1947) Framed
as Jeff Cunningham
(1948) Coroner Creek
as Sheriff O'Hea
(1952) The Big Trees
as Walter 'Yukon' Burns
(1951) Rawhide
as Sam Todd
(1948) The Man from Colorado
as Doc Merriam
(1963) McLintock!
as Bunny Dull
(1944) Buffalo Bill
as Sgt. Chips McGraw
(1941) Penny Serenade
as Applejack Carney
(1963) Donovan's Reef
as Francis O'Brien
(1950) Cargo to Capetown
as Sam Bennett
(1961) Tammy Tell Me True
as Judge Carver
(1960) Cimarron
as Judge Neal Hefner
(1954) Make Haste to Live
as Sheriff Lafe
(1969) The Over the Hill Gang
as Jason Fitch
(1949) Lust for Gold
as Wiser
(1954) Destry
as The Honorable Hiram J. Sellers, Mayor
(1971) Yuma
as Mules McNeil
(1959) Edge of Eternity
as Sheriff Edwards
(1970) The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again
as Jason Fitch
(1947) The Sea of Grass
as Jeff
(1946) The Walls Came Tumbling Down
as George Bradford
(1941) You Belong to Me
as Billings
(1943) Destroyer
as Kansas Jackson
(1969) Angel in My Pocket
as Axel Gresham
(1949) Any Number Can Play
as Ed
(1940) Too Many Husbands
as McDermott
(1963) A Ticklish Affair
as Captain Martin / Gramps
(1961) Devil's Partner
as Doc Lucas
(1946) The Bandit of Sherwood Forest
as Friar Tuck
(1954) She Couldn't Say No
as Ed Meeker
(1965) The Man from Button Willow
as Sorry
(1951) Cave of Outlaws
as Dobbs
(1955) Wichita
as Doc Black
(1940) When the Daltons Rode
as Narrator / Old-Timer (uncredited)
(1943) Good Luck, Mr. Yates
as Jonesey Jones
(1949) Red Canyon
as Jonah Johnson
(1967) Welcome to Hard Times
as Brown
(1954) Dawn at Socorro
as Sheriff Cauthen
(1944) The Impatient Years
as Judge
(1966) Gunpoint
as Bull
(1960) Four Fast Guns
as Dipper
(1983) Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1959) It Started with a Kiss
as Congressman Richard Tappe
(1952) Wild Stallion
as John Wintergreen
(1952) Toughest Man in Arizona
as Jim Hadlock
(1950) The Big Hangover
as Uncle Fred Mahoney
(1946) Renegades
as Kirk Dembrow
(1949) The Walking Hills
as Old Willy
(1944) Bride by Mistake
as Jonathan Connors
(1956) Come Next Spring
as Mr. Canary
(1946) If I'm Lucky
as Darius J. Magonnagle
(1959) King of the Wild Stallions
as Idaho
(1958) The Sheepman
as Milt Masters
(1950) Cheaper by the Dozen
as Dr. Burton
(1940) Escape to Glory
as Charles Atterbee
(1948) Adventures in Silverado
as Dr. Hendersonn
(1943) City Without Men
as Judge Michael T. Mallory
(1955) The Silver Star
as Will 'Bill' Dowdy (as Edgar Buchanon)
(1968) Something for a Lonely Man
as Old Man Wolenski
(1940) Arizona
as Judge Bogardus
(1941) Texas
as Buford 'Doc' Thorpe
(1952) Flaming Feather
as Sgt. O'Rourke
(1955) Rage at Dawn
as Judge
(1957) Spoilers of the Forest
as Tom Duncan
(1945) The Fighting Guardsman
as Brown
(1948) The Swordsman
as Angus MacArden
(1959) Stump Run
as ---
(1943) The Desperadoes
as Uncle Willie McLeod
(1962) Flashing Spikes
as Crab Holman
(1942) Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
as Curly Bill
(1948) The Untamed Breed
as John Rambeau
(1939) My Son Is Guilty
as Dan, Bartender
(1951) The Great Missouri Raid
as Dr. Samuels
(1951) Silver City
as Dutch Surrency
(1948) The Black Arrow
as Lawless
(1955) The Lonesome Trail
as Dan Wells
(1948) Best Man Wins
as Jim Smiley
(1946) Perilous Holiday
as George Richards
(1941) The Richest Man in Town
as Pete Martin
(1940) The Sea Hawk
as Ben Rollins
(1944) Strange Affair
as Lt. Washburn
(1948) The Wreck of the Hesperus
as George Lockhart
(1958) Day of the Badman
as Sam Wyckoff
(1953) It Happens Every Thursday
as Jake
(1940) Tear Gas Squad
as Cousin Andy
(1959) Hound-Dog Man
as Doc Cole
(1941) Her First Beau
as Elmer Tuttle
(1960) Chartroose Caboose
as Woodrow 'Woody' Watts
(2005) The History of Hooterville
as Self (archive footage)
(1972) The Marshal of Madrid
as Deputy JJ Jackson
(1972) Sam Cade
as J.J. Jackson
(1960) The Andy Griffith Show
as Henry Wheeler
(1957) Trackdown
as ---
(1965) Green Acres
as Uncle Joe Carson
(1962) The Beverly Hillbillies
as Uncle Joe Carson
(1960) Route 66
as ---
(1963) Petticoat Junction
as Uncle Joe Carson
(1968) The Mod Squad
as ---
(1962) The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
(1957) Perry Mason
as Andy Templet
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Dan
(1948) Studio One
as Dan Ferris
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Buckskin
(1959) The Twilight Zone
as Doc Bolton
(1960) The Tall Man
as ---
(1957) Leave It to Beaver
as Captain Jack
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Pops
(1960) Bringing Up Buddy
as ---
(1960) Outlaws
as ---
(1961) Bus Stop
as ---
(1957) Have Gun, Will Travel
as ---
(1955) The Millionaire
as William Eliot Vaughan
(1960) Thriller
as Doc O'Connor
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Henry Maguire
(1954) Climax!
as Spencer
(1958) Bronco
as ---
(1956) The Adventures of Jim Bowie
as ---
(1960) National Velvet
as ---
(1958) Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Pop Michaels
(1958) The Rifleman
as ---
(1958) Lawman
as ---
(1958) Bat Masterson
as Cactus Charlie
(1959) Laramie
as ---
(1959) Riverboat
as Wingate Pardee
(1952) Cavalcade of America
as ---
(1962) Stoney Burke
as ---
(1963) Vacation Playhouse
as Luke
(1961) Dr. Kildare
as Steve Devitt
(1957) 26 Men
as ---
(1955) Judge Roy Bean
as ---
(1952) Hopalong Cassidy
as Red Connors
(1957) Maverick
as Jed Christianson
(1960) The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Judge Franklin
(1960) Route 66
as Magistrate Abe Chumley
(1971) Cade's County
as Senior Deputy J.J. Jackson
(1957) The Californians
as Major
(1957) Wagon Train
as Ben Mattox
(1961) Dr. Kildare
as Judge Wilfred Manning
(1958) The Rifleman
as Grandpa Fogarty
(1957) Maverick
as Daddy David Forge
(1955) Gunsmoke
as York
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Colonel Starbottle
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Preacher Bailey
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Parson Meacham
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Doctor
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Timothy Dwight
(1952) Cavalcade of America
as Horace Greeley
(1952) Cavalcade of America
as Doc Mathew
(1958) Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Chester Blake
(1957) Perry Mason
as Judge Edward Daley
(1953) The Danny Thomas Show
as Captain Archie
(1957) Maverick
as Sheriff Hadley
(1954) Climax!
as Constable
(1957) The Restless Gun
as Ethan Greenfield
(1960) Stagecoach West
as Lum Jensen
(1962) The Lloyd Bridges Show
as Doc Lawton
(1956) The Gale Storm Show
as Jasper Stokes
(1959) Bonanza
as Hallelujah Hicks
(1958) The Rifleman
as Doc J. Burrage