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Edgar Buchanan

Actor / Dentist | * 03/20/1903 († 76, 04/04/1979) | Humansville, Missouri (United States of America (USA))
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William Edgar Buchanan II (March 20, 1903 – April 4, 1979) was an American actor with a long career in both film and television. He is most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, and The Beverly Hillbillies television sitcoms of the 1960s. ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Western | Drama | Comedies

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Jeff Warren, a Korean War vet just returning to his railroad engineer's job, boards at the home of co-worker Alec Simmons and is charmed by Alec's beautiful daughter. He becomes attracted immediately ...

Human Desire

Certification unknown

1954 | 3.5/5 | 1h 31min
Drama, Romance / Love, Crime
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A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act. ...

Shane

NR

1953 | 3.7/5 | 1h 58min
Drama, Western
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An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him. ...

Ride the High Country

NR

1962 | 3.5/5 | 1h 34min
Action, Western
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A young British nobleman comes back from fighting in the War of the Roses to discover that his father has been murdered by an old family friend who is now an outlaw. However, he becomes suspicious abo ...

The Black Arrow

NR

1948 | 2.9/5 | 1h 16min
Adventure, History
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Movies with Edgar Buchanan as Actor(100)

as Self (archive footage)2005 The History of Hooterville
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)1983 Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Bill1974 Benji
as J.J. Jackson1972 Sam Cade
as Mules McNeil1971 Yuma
as Jason Fitch1970 The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again
as Jason Fitch1969 The Over-the-Hill Gang
as Axel Gresham1969 Angel in My Pocket
as Old Man Wolenski1968 Something for a Lonely Man
as Brown1967 Welcome to Hard Times
as Bull1966 Gunpoint
as Vince Moore1965 The Rounders
as Sorry1965 The Man from Button Willow
as Bunny Dull1963 McLintock!
as Judge Bryson1963 Move Over, Darling
as Captain Martin / Gramps1963 A Ticklish Affair
as Francis O'Brien1963 Donovan's Reef
as Judge Tolliver1962 Ride the High Country
as Crab Holman1962 Flashing Spikes
as Circuit Court Judge Thaddeus Jackson Breen1961 The Comancheros
as Doc Lucas1961 Devil's Partner
as Judge Carver1961 Tammy Tell Me True
as Dipper1960 Four Fast Guns
as Judge Neal Hefner1960 Cimarron
as Woodrow 'Woody' Watts1960 Chartroose Caboose
as Sheriff Edwards1959 Edge of Eternity
as Idaho1959 King of the Wild Stallions
as Congressman Richard Tappe1959 It Started with a Kiss
1959 Stump Run
as Doc Cole1959 Hound-Dog Man
as Milt Masters1958 The Sheepman
as Sam Wyckoff1958 Day of the Badman
as Tom Duncan1957 Spoilers of the Forest
as Mr. Canary1956 Come Next Spring
as Will 'Bill' Dowdy (as Edgar Buchanon)1955 The Silver Star
as Dan Wells1955 The Lonesome Trail
as Doc Black1955 Wichita
as Judge1955 Rage at Dawn
as Sheriff Lafe1954 Make Haste to Live
as The Honorable Hiram J. Sellers, Mayor1954 Destry
as Alec Simmons1954 Human Desire
as Sheriff Cauthen1954 Dawn at Socorro
as Ed Meeker1954 She Couldn't Say No
as Fred Lewis1953 Shane
as Jake1953 It Happens Every Thursday
as Jim Hadlock1952 Toughest Man in Arizona
as John Wintergreen1952 Wild Stallion
as Sgt. O'Rourke1952 Flaming Feather
as Walter 'Yukon' Burns1952 The Big Trees
as Dobbs1951 Cave of Outlaws
as Sam Todd (Rawhide stationmaster)1951 Rawhide
as Dr. Samuels1951 The Great Missouri Raid
as Dutch Surrency1951 Silver City
as Sam Bennett1950 Cargo to Capetown
as Zeke Carmody1950 Devil's Doorway
as Uncle Fred Mahoney1950 The Big Hangover
as Dr. Burton1950 Cheaper by the Dozen
as Jonah Johnson1949 Red Canyon
as Wiser1949 Lust for Gold
as Ed1949 Any Number Can Play
as Old Willy1949 The Walking Hills
as Doc Merriam1948 The Man from Colorado
as Jim Smiley1948 Best Man Wins
as John Rambeau1948 The Untamed Breed
as Angus MacArden1948 The Swordsman
as Sheriff O'Hea1948 Coroner Creek
as George Lockhart1948 The Wreck of the Hesperus
as Dr. Hendersonn1948 Adventures in Silverado
as Lawless1948 The Black Arrow
as Jeff Cunningham1947 Framed
as Jeff1947 The Sea of Grass
as Sheriff Bravo Trimble1946 Abilene Town
as Kirk Dembrow1946 Renegades
as George Bradford1946 The Walls Came Tumbling Down
as Brown1946 The Fighting Guardsman
as George Richards1946 Perilous Holiday
as Friar Tuck1946 The Bandit of Sherwood Forest
as Darius J. Magonnagle1946 If I'm Lucky
as Judge1944 The Impatient Years
as Jonathan Connors1944 Bride by Mistake
as Lt. Washburn1944 Strange Affair
as Sgt. Chips McGraw1944 Buffalo Bill
as Judge Michael T. Mallory1943 City Without Men
as Jonesey Jones1943 Good Luck, Mr. Yates
as Kansas Jackson1943 Destroyer
as Uncle Willie McLeod1943 The Desperadoes
as Curly Bill1942 Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
as Sam Yates1942 The Talk of the Town
as Elmer Tuttle1941 Her First Beau
as Applejack Carney1941 Penny Serenade
as Billings1941 You Belong to Me
as Buford 'Doc' Thorpe1941 Texas
as Pete Martin1941 The Richest Man in Town
as Narrator / Old-Timer (uncredited)1940 When the Daltons Rode
as Ben Rollins1940 The Sea Hawk
as Judge Bogardus1940 Arizona
as Charles Atterbee1940 Escape to Glory
as Cousin Andy1940 Tear Gas Squad
as McDermott1940 Too Many Husbands
as Dan, Bartender1939 My Son is Guilty

TV Shows/Series with Edgar Buchanan as Actor(57)

as Senior Deputy J.J. Jackson1971 Cade's County
1968 The Mod Squad
1965 Green Acres
as Luke1963 Vacation Playhouse
as Uncle Joe Carson1963 Petticoat Junction
as himself1962 The Merv Griffin Show
1962 Stoney Burke
1962 The Beverly Hillbillies
1961 Bus Stop
as Steve Devitt1961 Dr. Kildare
as Judge Wilfred Manning1961 Dr. Kildare
1960 The Andy Griffith Show
as Doc O'Connor1960 Thriller
1960 The Tall Man
as Judge Franklin1960 The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960 Bringing Up Buddy
1960 Outlaws
1960 Route 66
1960 National Velvet
1959 Laramie
as Wingate Pardee1959 Riverboat
as Doc Bolton1959 The Twilight Zone
as Pop Michaels1958 Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Chester Blake1958 Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Cactus Charlie1958 Bat Masterson
1958 Lawman
1958 The Rifleman
as Grandpa Fogarty1958 The Rifleman
1958 Bronco
1957 Have Gun, Will Travel
as Andy Templet1957 Perry Mason
as Judge Edward Daley1957 Perry Mason
as Jed Christianson1957 Maverick
as Sheriff Hadley1957 Maverick
as Captain Jack1957 Leave It to Beaver
1957 Trackdown
1957 26 Men
1956 The Adventures of Jim Bowie
as Pops1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as William Eliot Vaughan1955 The Millionaire
as Dan1955 Gunsmoke
as York1955 Gunsmoke
1955 Judge Roy Bean
as Spencer1954 Climax!
as Constable1954 Climax!
as Buckskin1953 GE Theater
as Colonel Starbottle1953 GE Theater
as Preacher Bailey1953 GE Theater
as Parson Meacham1953 GE Theater
as Doctor1953 GE Theater
as Timothy Dwight1953 GE Theater
as Red Connors1952 Hopalong Cassidy
1952 Cavalcade of America
as Horace Greeley1952 Cavalcade of America
as Doc Mathew1952 Cavalcade of America
as Henry Maguire1951 Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Dan Ferris1948 Studio One

Full Name: Edgar Buchanan
Born: Friday, 03/20 1903 (March) in Humansville, Missouri (United States of America (USA))
Died: Wednesday, 04/04 1979 (April) in Palm Desert (aged: 76)
Zodiac sign: Pisces (Chinese zodiac sign: Rabbit)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: University of Oregon, North Pacific College
Other names for Edgar Buchanan (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"William Edgar Buchanan II"
Edgar Buchanan frequently works together with these people:
Denver Pyle (46x, Actor)
Harry Townes (41x, Actor)
J. Pat O'Malley (35x, Actor)
Vaughn Taylor (35x, Actor)
Everett Sloane (34x, Actor)
Virginia Gregg (34x, Actress)
John Hoyt (33x, Actor)
Jeanette Nolan (33x, Actress)
John Anderson (33x, Actor)
Claude Akins (32x, Actor)
William Fawcett (32x, Actor)
Glenn Ford (13x, Actor)
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