Edgar Buchanan
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1903-03-20 (76 years old)
Deathday
1979-04-04
Place of Birth
Humansville, Missouri, USA
Also known As
William Edgar Buchanan II
Edgar Buchanan
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.
Acting
1953
as Fred Lewis
1963
as Judge Bryson
1961
as Circuit Court Judge Thaddeus Jackson Breen
1954
as Alec Simmons
1974
as Bill
1946
as Sheriff Bravo Trimble
1942
as Sam Yates
1965
as Vince Moore
1950
as Zeke Carmody
1962
as Judge Tolliver
1947
as Jeff Cunningham
1948
as Sheriff O'Hea
1952
as Walter 'Yukon' Burns
1948
as Doc Merriam
1951
as Sam Todd
1963
as Bunny Dull
1944
as Sgt. Chips McGraw
1941
as Applejack Carney
1963
as Francis O'Brien
1950
as Sam Bennett
1961
as Judge Carver
1960
as Judge Neal Hefner
1954
as Sheriff Lafe
1969
as Jason Fitch
1949
as Wiser
1954
as The Honorable Hiram J. Sellers, Mayor
1971
as Mules McNeil
1959
as Sheriff Edwards
1970
as Jason Fitch
1947
as Jeff
1946
as George Bradford
1941
as Billings
1943
as Kansas Jackson
1969
as Axel Gresham
1949
as Ed
1940
as McDermott
1963
as Captain Martin / Gramps
1961
as Doc Lucas
1946
as Friar Tuck
1954
as Ed Meeker
1951
as Dobbs
1965
as Sorry
1955
as Doc Black
1940
as Narrator / Old-Timer (uncredited)
1943
as Jonesey Jones
1949
as Jonah Johnson
1967
as Brown
1954
as Sheriff Cauthen
1944
as Judge
1966
as Bull
1960
as Dipper
1983
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1959
as Congressman Richard Tappe
1952
as John Wintergreen
1952
as Jim Hadlock
1950
as Uncle Fred Mahoney
1946
as Kirk Dembrow
1949
as Old Willy
1944
as Jonathan Connors
1956
as Mr. Canary
1946
as Darius J. Magonnagle
1959
as Idaho
1958
as Milt Masters
1950
as Dr. Burton
1940
as Charles Atterbee
1948
as Dr. Hendersonn
1943
as Judge Michael T. Mallory
1955
as Will 'Bill' Dowdy (as Edgar Buchanon)
1968
as Old Man Wolenski
1940
as Judge Bogardus
1941
as Buford 'Doc' Thorpe
1952
as Sgt. O'Rourke
1955
as Judge
1957
as Tom Duncan
1945
as Brown
1948
as Angus MacArden
1959
1943
as Uncle Willie McLeod
1962
as Crab Holman
1942
as Curly Bill
1948
as John Rambeau
1939
as Dan, Bartender
1951
as Dr. Samuels
1951
as Dutch Surrency
1948
as Lawless
1955
as Dan Wells
1948
as Jim Smiley
1946
as George Richards
1941
as Pete Martin
1940
as Ben Rollins
1944
as Lt. Washburn
1948
as George Lockhart
1958
as Sam Wyckoff
1953
as Jake
1940
as Cousin Andy
1959
as Doc Cole
1941
as Elmer Tuttle
1960
as Woodrow 'Woody' Watts
2005
as Self (archive footage)
1972
as Deputy JJ Jackson
1972
as J.J. Jackson
1955
as Sub Doyal
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