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Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 20, 1903
Died
April 4, 1979
Place of Birth
Humansville, Missouri, USA
Also Known As
- William Edgar Buchanan II
Edgar Buchanan
0.9 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
0.0
Self (archive footage)
The History of Hooterville
2005
6.5
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
6.3
Bill
Benji
1974
0.0
J.J. Jackson
Sam Cade
1972
0.0
Deputy JJ Jackson
The Marshal of Madrid
1972
5.7
Senior Deputy J.J. Jackson
Cade's County
1971
6.1
Mules McNeil
Yuma
1971
5.0
Jason Fitch
The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again
1970
6.8
Judge McElwreath
The Partridge Family
1970
5.6
Jason Fitch
The Over the Hill Gang
1969
Credits
The History of Hooterville
as Self (archive footage)
2005
0.0
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
6.5
Benji
as Bill
1974
6.3
Sam Cade
as J.J. Jackson
1972
0.0
The Marshal of Madrid
as Deputy JJ Jackson
1972
0.0
Cade's County
as Senior Deputy J.J. Jackson
1971
5.7
Yuma
as Mules McNeil
1971
6.1
The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again
as Jason Fitch
1970
5.0
The Partridge Family
as Judge McElwreath
1970
6.8
The Over the Hill Gang
as Jason Fitch
1969
5.6
Angel in My Pocket
as Axel Gresham
1969
5.8
Something for a Lonely Man
as Old Man Wolenski
1968
7.4
The Mod Squad
1968
6.2
Welcome to Hard Times
as Brown
1967
5.1
Gunpoint
as Bull
1966
6.0
Green Acres
as Uncle Joe Carson
1965
7.3
The Man from Button Willow
as Sorry (voice)
1965
4.4
The Rounders
as Vince Moore
1965
5.5
Move Over, Darling
as Judge Bryson
1963
6.7
McLintock!
as Bunny Dull
1963
6.6
Petticoat Junction
as Uncle Joe Carson
1963
5.7
A Ticklish Affair
as Captain Martin / Gramps
1963
5.7
🎬
Vacation Playhouse
as Luke
1963
7.0
Donovan's Reef
as Francis O'Brien
1963
6.3
Flashing Spikes
as Crab Holman
1962
6.0
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
6.2
Stoney Burke
1962
5.7
The Beverly Hillbillies
as Uncle Joe Carson
1962
6.9
The Lloyd Bridges Show
as Doc Lawton
1962
5.0
Ride the High Country
as Judge Tolliver
1962
7.0
The Comancheros
as Circuit Court Judge Thaddeus Jackson Breen
1961
6.7
Bus Stop
1961
0.0
Dr. Kildare
as Steve Devitt
1961
5.5
Dr. Kildare
as Judge Wilfred Manning
1961
5.5
Devil's Partner
as Doc Lucas
1961
5.3
Tammy Tell Me True
as Judge Carver
1961
5.9
Chartroose Caboose
as Woodrow 'Woody' Watts
1960
0.0
Cimarron
as Judge Neal Hefner
1960
6.0
🎬
Bringing Up Buddy
1960
0.0
Route 66
1960
6.3
Route 66
as Magistrate Abe Chumley
1960
6.3
Stagecoach West
as Lum Jensen
1960
6.0
The Andy Griffith Show
as Henry Wheeler
1960
7.6
Outlaws
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Judge Franklin
1960
6.2
National Velvet
as Grandpa Harwell
1960
7.5
Thriller
as Doc O'Connor
1960
6.6
The Tall Man
1960
6.3
Four Fast Guns
as Dipper
1960
5.7
Stump Run
1960
0.0
Hound-Dog Man
as Doc Cole
1959
4.4
Edge of Eternity
as Sheriff Edwards
1959
6.6
The Twilight Zone
as Doc Bolton
1959
8.5
Laramie
1959
6.6
Riverboat
as Wingate Pardee
1959
6.2
Bonanza
as Hallelujah Hicks
1959
7.5
It Started with a Kiss
as Congressman Richard Tappe
1959
5.2
King of the Wild Stallions
as Idaho
1959
6.0
Bat Masterson
as Cactus Charlie
1958
6.1
Lawman
1958
5.6
The Rifleman
1958
7.1
The Rifleman
as Grandpa Fogarty
1958
7.1
The Rifleman
as Doc J. Burrage
1958
7.1
Bronco
1958
5.9
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Pop Michaels
1958
6.8
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Chester Blake
1958
6.8
The Sheepman
as Milt Masters
1958
6.9
Day of the Badman
as Sam Wyckoff
1958
6.5
26 Men
1957
4.2
Leave It to Beaver
as Captain Jack
1957
6.9
Trackdown
as Tully Saxon
1957
6.4
The Californians
as Major
1957
5.2
The Restless Gun
as Ethan Greenfield
1957
3.0
Maverick
as Jed Christianson
1957
6.9
Maverick
as Daddy David Forge
1957
6.9
Maverick
as Sheriff Hadley
1957
6.9
Perry Mason
as Andy Templet
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Judge Edward Daley
1957
7.7
Wagon Train
as Ben Mattox
1957
6.6
Wagon Train
as Thaddeus Briscoe
1957
6.6
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
7.3
Spoilers of the Forest
as Tom Duncan
1957
0.0
🎬
The Gale Storm Show
as Jasper Stokes
1956
5.5
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956
5.0
Come Next Spring
as Mr. Canary
1956
5.6
The Brush Roper
as Sub Doyal
1955
0.0
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Pops
1955
7.8
Gunsmoke
as Dan
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as York
1955
6.6
Judge Roy Bean
1955
5.0
Wichita
as Doc Black
1955
6.4
The Lonesome Trail
as Dan Wells
1955
7.5
The Silver Star
as Will 'Bill' Dowdy (as Edgar Buchanon)
1955
5.0
Rage at Dawn
as Judge
1955
6.1
The Millionaire
as William Eliot Vaughan
1955
5.0
Destry
as The Honorable Hiram J. Sellers, Mayor
1954
6.2
Climax!
as Spencer
1954
3.3
Climax!
as Constable
1954
3.3
Dawn at Socorro
as Sheriff Cauthen
1954
7.2
Human Desire
as Alec Simmons
1954
6.7
Make Haste to Live
as Sheriff Lafe
1954
5.8
She Couldn't Say No
as Ed Meeker
1954
5.6
The Danny Thomas Show
as Captain Archie
1953
6.0
Shane
as Fred Lewis
1953
7.4
It Happens Every Thursday
as Jake
1953
6.2
General Electric Theater
as Buckskin
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as Colonel Starbottle
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as Preacher Bailey
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as Parson Meacham
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as Doctor
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as Timothy Dwight
1953
6.4
Toughest Man in Arizona
as Jim Hadlock
1952
0.0
The Ford Television Theatre
as Papa Mumby
1952
7.3
Cavalcade of America
1952
3.5
Cavalcade of America
as Horace Greeley
1952
3.5
Cavalcade of America
as Doc Mathew
1952
3.5
Hopalong Cassidy
as Red Connors
1952
5.1
Wild Stallion
as John Wintergreen
1952
6.5
The Big Trees
as Walter 'Yukon' Burns
1952
5.4
Flaming Feather
as Sgt. O'Rourke
1952
5.8
Silver City
as Dutch Surrency
1951
6.3
Cave of Outlaws
as Dobbs
1951
5.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Henry Maguire
1951
7.2
Rawhide
as Sam Todd
1951
6.7
The Great Missouri Raid
as Dr. Samuels
1951
6.6
Devil's Doorway
as Zeke Carmody
1950
6.9
The Big Hangover
as Uncle Fred Mahoney
1950
6.1
Cargo to Capetown
as Sam Bennett
1950
5.9
Cheaper by the Dozen
as Dr. Burton
1950
6.3
Any Number Can Play
as Ed
1949
6.9
Lust for Gold
as Wiser
1949
5.9
Red Canyon
as Jonah Johnson
1949
5.0
The Walking Hills
as Old Willy
1949
6.0
Studio One
as Dan Ferris
1948
5.0
The Untamed Breed
as John Rambeau
1948
5.0
The Man from Colorado
as Doc Merriam
1948
6.7
Coroner Creek
as Sheriff O'Hea
1948
6.1
Best Man Wins
as Jim Smiley
1948
6.7
Adventures in Silverado
as Dr. Hendersonn
1948
5.0
The Black Arrow
as Lawless
1948
5.2
The Wreck of the Hesperus
as George Lockhart
1948
6.2
The Swordsman
as Angus MacArden
1948
0.0
Framed
as Jeff Cunningham
1947
6.4
The Sea of Grass
as Jeff
1947
6.1
If I'm Lucky
as Darius J. Magonnagle
1946
6.5
Renegades
as Kirk Dembrow
1946
5.2
The Walls Came Tumbling Down
as George Bradford
1946
5.9
Perilous Holiday
as George Richards
1946
0.0
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest
as Friar Tuck
1946
5.0
Abilene Town
as Sheriff Bravo Trimble
1946
5.1
The Fighting Guardsman
as Brown
1945
7.0
Strange Affair
as Lt. Washburn
1944
6.2
The Impatient Years
as Judge
1944
6.3
Bride by Mistake
as Jonathan Connors
1944
6.1
Buffalo Bill
as Sgt. Chips McGraw
1944
5.6
Destroyer
as Kansas Jackson
1943
6.6
Good Luck, Mr. Yates
as Jonesey Jones
1943
5.8
The Desperadoes
as Uncle Willie McLeod
1943
5.7
City Without Men
as Judge Michael T. Mallory
1943
5.0
The Talk of the Town
as Sam Yates
1942
7.3
Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
as Curly Bill
1942
5.4
You Belong to Me
as Billings
1941
5.8
Texas
as Buford 'Doc' Thorpe
1941
6.5
The Richest Man in Town
as Pete Martin
1941
0.0
Her First Beau
as Elmer Tuttle
1941
5.0
Penny Serenade
as Applejack Carney
1941
6.6
Arizona
as Judge Bogardus
1940
6.3
When the Daltons Rode
as Narrator / Old-Timer (uncredited)
1940
6.0
The Sea Hawk
as Ben Rollins
1940
7.2
Escape to Glory
as Charles Atterbee
1940
6.0
Tear Gas Squad
as Cousin Andy
1940
4.8
Too Many Husbands
as McDermott
1940
6.3
My Son Is Guilty
as Dan, Bartender
1939
7.5