Jackson in the CBS crime drama Cade's County. He was on Leave It to Beaver (as both "Uncle Billy" and "Captain Jack"), The Twilight Zone, Riverboat (as Wingate Pardee in the 1960 episode, "Duel on the River"), Gunsmoke (in 1962 as the title character “Old Dan” - S7E18), Route 66, Bringing Up Buddy, Bus Stop, and The Lloyd Bridges Show.īuchanan's roles as a regular cast member in television programs included Red Connors in the syndicated Western Hopalong Cassidy, and J.J. In addition to several other widely varying roles on the series (running the gamut from sympathetic parts to vicious villains), he portrayed Jed Christianson in the episode " Duel at Sundown" on Maverick with James Garner and Clint Eastwood. Edgar appeared in six episodes of The Rifleman, playing Grandpa Fogerty in "The Long Goodbye" (episode 119) and Doc Burrage in the other five: "The Pet" (episode 15), "The Second Witness" (episode 23), "The Trade" (episode 24), "The Deadly Wait" (episode 26), and "The Angry Man" (episode 31). Career īuchanan appeared in more than 100 films, including Texas (1941), in which he played a dentist and appeared with William Holden and Glenn Ford and later in Penny Serenade (1941) with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die (1942), The Talk of the Town (1942) with Ronald Colman, Cary Grant and Jean Arthur, The Man from Colorado (1948), Cheaper by the Dozen (1950), Shane (1953), She Couldn't Say No (1954), Ride the High Country (1962) with Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea, McLintock! (1963) with John Wayne, Move Over, Darling (1963) with Doris Day and James Garner, and Benji (1974).Īmong the many television series in which he was cast as a guest star were Cimarron City, The Californians, and The Rifleman. He was a member of Theta Chi fraternity and a Freemason. He appeared in his first film in 1939, at the age of 36, after which he turned his dentistry practice over to his wife. He joined the Pasadena Playhouse as an actor. In 1939, they moved from Eugene, Oregon, to Altadena, California, where they relocated their dental practice. His wife Mildred (1907–1987) and he, classmates in dental school, were married in 1928, the year he graduated. In 1928, he earned a DDS degree from North Pacific College School of Dentistry, which later became Oregon Health & Science University School of Dentistry. He moved with his family to Oregon when he was seven. William Edgar Buchanan, he was born in Humansville, Missouri, on March 20, 1903. He is most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, and The Beverly Hillbillies television sitcoms of the 1960s. William Edgar Buchanan II (Ma– April 4, 1979) was an American actor with a long career in both film and television.
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