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