1. William Edgar Buchanan II was an American actor with a long career in both film and television.
16 Facts About Edgar Buchanan
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Edgar Buchanan 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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Edgar Buchanan was born to Rose Buchanan and William Edgar Buchanan Sr.
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Edgar Buchanan moved with his family to Oregon when he was seven.
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Edgar Buchanan's father had a dental practice in Eugene, Oregon, and encouraged his son to follow suit.
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Nevertheless, Edgar Buchanan took courses in theater at the University of Oregon as a pre-med student, and was part of a Portland acting troupe in graduate school.
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Edgar Buchanan was involved in the founding of the Portland Civic Theatre.
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Meanwhile, his wife, Dr Millie Edgar Buchanan, DDS, took over the dental practice while supporting her husband's new career as his talent manager.
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Edgar Buchanan was a member of Theta Chi fraternity and a Freemason.
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Edgar Buchanan was on Leave It to Beaver, The Twilight Zone, Riverboat, Gunsmoke, Route 66, Bringing Up Buddy, Bus Stop, and The Lloyd Bridges Show.
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Edgar Buchanan appeared as Uncle Joe Carson in all 222 episodes of Petticoat Junction, the only actor from the show to do so, as well as in 17 episodes of Green Acres, and three episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies.
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On Petticoat Junction, he took over as proprietor of the Shady Rest Hotel following the 1968 death of show star Bea Benaderet, who had played Kate Bradley; Edgar Buchanan had starred as second lead since the series' inception.
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Edgar Buchanan appeared in multiple episodes of "Tales of Wells Fargo," starring Dale Robertson.
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Edgar Buchanan had the recurring role of a rascally ex-outlaw named Doc Dawson.
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Edgar Buchanan died from a stroke complicated by pneumonia in Palm Desert, California in 1979.
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Edgar Buchanan was interred in the Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.