Edgar Buchanan
William Edgar Buchanan ( born March 20, 1903 in Humansville, Missouri, † April 4, 1979 in Palm Desert, California ) was an American actor.
Life
Buchanan grew up in Oregon. He learned as his father before him, the dental profession and married in 1928, his wife also practiced as a dentist. His acting career began after the couple had moved to California in 1939. When he still got his first feature film role in the same year, he handed over his practice to his wife. Buchanan played at the beginning of his career, although some smaller, not mentioned in part uncredited supporting roles, including in Michael Curtiz's adventure film The Lord of the seven seas, but already in his second film, he had a major supporting role as Detective Adolph McDermott in the film comedy A husband too much on the side of Jean Arthur and Fred MacMurray. 1941 and 1942, he was seen on the side of Cary Grant in the Oscar-nominated feature films chords of love and witness for the prosecution. Much of his film roles presented soon Western represents, among other things, he introduced in 1942 in a film adaptation of the life of Wyatt Earp the gunslingers "Curly Bill" Brocious dar. he starred opposite John Wayne in The Comancheros and MacLintock, alongside Henry Fonda in Nebraska and incendiaries of Arkansas and next Audie Murphy in Destry cleans up and Colt is the law. In addition, he introduced Fred Lewis in the Oscar-winning Western classic Shane with Alan Ladd in the title role dar.
In addition to his film career he appeared in the mid- 1950s, also in the U.S. television series. In addition to guest roles in series such as West of Santa Fe, at the foot of the Blue Mountains, Bonanza and Gunsmoke, he became known in the United States especially through various long-standing series lead roles. In 1952 he starred opposite William Boyd in 40 episodes of the series Hopalong Cassidy, 1956-1957 he put in 39 episodes in the series Roy Bean Roy Bean, a judge in the Wild West dar. in the hit sitcom Petticoat Junction he played between in 1963 and 1970 in all 222 episodes, the role of Uncle Joe Carson, for which he is mainly known in the United States. Also in the same time produced series Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies, he joined several times as Uncle Joe Carson. After the end of Petticoat Junction he starred opposite Glenn Ford in the western series sheriff Cade, but this was discontinued after the first season. In the 1970s, he was only sporadically seen as an actor, he had his last appearance in 1974 in Benji - On hot track.