Full Name | Vern Buchanan |
Net Worth | $5 Million |
Date Of Birth | May 8, 1951 |
Died | 1979-04-04 |
Place Of Birth | Humansville, Missouri, USA |
Height | 5' 11" (1.8 m) |
Occupation | Dentist, Actor, Singer |
Profession | Politician, Businessperson |
Education | University of Detroit Mercy, Cleary University, Magdalene College, Cambridge, Winchester College |
Nationality | American, British |
Spouse | Sandra Buchanan |
Children | Matt Buchanan, James Buchanan |
Parents | John Eggar |
Nicknames | Edgar Buchanan, Buchanan, Edgar |
Facebook | http://www.facebook.com/VernBuchananForCongress |
Twitter | http://www.twitter.com/vernbuchanan |
IMDB | http://imdb.com/name/nm0118000 |
Star Sign | Pisces |
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1 | His favorite role was Texas (1941). |
2 | He played the same character (Uncle Joe Carson) on three different series: The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), Petticoat Junction (1963) and Green Acres (1965). |
3 | Father of Buck Buchanan. |
4 | Edgar Buchanan's grandfather, Bramentus L. Buchanan (1840-1904), was a private in Company A, 6th Missouri Cavalry (Union) as well as the Dade County, MO Home Guard (Union) during the American Civil War (1861-1865). |
5 | His friend of many years, Glenn Ford, once told a story of when Edgar was preparing to do some painful dental work on him. The anesthesia consisted of others passing by and allowing the patient, Glenn, to take swallows of whiskey to help ease the pain of the process. About every third drink Glenn took, Edgar took one as well. |
6 | He met his wife at dentistry school in Toronto, where she also studied to become a dentist. |
7 | He provided his dentistry skills on the set numerous times. One such occasion, he pulled the tooth of his stand-in of 25 years, Jack Henderson. |
8 | Member of Theta Chi Fraternity (Alpha Sigma Chapter, University of Oregon) |
9 | He appeared in a total of 13 different productions with Glenn Ford. |
10 | Was originally a dentist with his own practice. At age 38, he turned the practice over to his wife and began his acting career. |
11 | Was one of only three co-stars of Petticoat Junction (1963) who remained with the series for its entire seven-year run, the others being Linda Henning and Frank Cady. |
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Benji | 1974 | | Bill |
Love, American Style | 1973 | TV Series | The judge 'brockmerton' (segment "love and the family hour") |
The Partridge Family | 1972 | TV Series | Judge McElwreath |
Cade's County | 1971-1972 | TV Series | J.J. Jackson / J. J. Jackson |
Yuma | 1971 | TV Movie | Mules McNeil |
The Virginian | 1971 | TV Series | Teddy Birdwell |
The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again | 1970 | TV Movie | Jason Fitch |
Mod Squad | 1970 | TV Series | Hargis |
The Name of the Game | 1970 | TV Series | Felson |
Petticoat Junction | 1963-1970 | TV Series | Uncle Joe Carson |
The Over-the-Hill Gang | 1969 | TV Movie | Jason Fitch |
Green Acres | 1965-1969 | TV Series | Uncle Joe Carson |
Angel in My Pocket | 1969 | | Axel Gresham |
The Beverly Hillbillies | 1968 | TV Series | Uncle Joe Carson |
Something for a Lonely Man | 1968 | TV Movie | Old Man Wolenski |
Welcome to Hard Times | 1967 | | Brown |
Gunpoint | 1966 | | Bull |
Vacation Playhouse | 1965 | TV Series | Luke |
The Man from Button Willow | 1965 | | Sorry (voice) |
The Rounders | 1965 | | Vince Moore |
Move Over, Darling | 1963 | | Judge Bryson |
McLintock! | 1963 | | Bunny Dull |
A Ticklish Affair | 1963 | | Captain Martin / Gramps |
Donovan's Reef | 1963 | | Boston Attorney Francis X. O'Brien |
Dr. Kildare | 1962-1963 | TV Series | Judge Wilfred Manning / Steve Devitt |
Gunsmoke | 1962-1963 | TV Series | York / Dan Witter |
The Lloyd Bridges Show | 1962-1963 | TV Series | Andrew Jackson Tyree / Doc Lawton |
Leave It to Beaver | 1957-1963 | TV Series | Uncle Billy Cleaver / Captain Jack |
Dennis the Menace | 1962 | TV Series | Mr. Meekin |
Wide Country | 1962 | TV Series | Walter Guthrie |
Perry Mason | 1958-1962 | TV Series | Judge Edward Daley / Coroner Andy Templet |
Have Gun - Will Travel | 1962 | TV Series | Noah Cardiff |
Laramie | 1960-1962 | TV Series | Cletus McBain / Tully Casper / Doc / ... |
Stoney Burke | 1962 | TV Series | Vernon Dawes |
Alcoa Premiere | 1962 | TV Series | Crab Holman |
Route 66 | 1960-1962 | TV Series | Magistrate Abe Chumley / Jack McConkle |
Outlaws | 1960-1962 | TV Series | Neely / Nulty |
Ride the High Country | 1962 | | Judge Tolliver |
Thriller | 1962 | TV Series | Doc O'Connor |
The Twilight Zone | 1962 | TV Series | Doc Bolton |
The Andy Griffith Show | 1961 | TV Series | Henry Wheeler |
The Rifleman | 1959-1961 | TV Series | Doc J. Burrage Doc Burrage Grandpa Fogarty |
Bus Stop | 1961 | TV Series | Judge Neal |
The Comancheros | 1961 | | Circuit Court Judge Thaddeus Jackson Breen |
The Bob Cummings Show | 1961 | TV Series | |
The Tall Man | 1961 | TV Series | Archie Keogh |
Devil's Partner | 1961 | | Doc Lucas |
Tammy Tell Me True | 1961 | | Judge Carver |
The Barbara Stanwyck Show | 1961 | TV Series | Judge Franklin |
Bonanza | 1960-1961 | TV Series | John Henry Hill / Hallelujah Hicks |
Tales of Wells Fargo | 1957-1961 | TV Series | Bob Dawson Doc Dawson |
National Velvet | 1961 | TV Series | Grandpa Harwell |
Klondike | 1961 | TV Series | Sam Perkins |
Maverick | 1958-1961 | TV Series | Red Daniels / Sheriff Hadley / Col. Hamilton / ... |
Chartroose Caboose | 1960 | | Woodrow 'Woody' Watts |
Riverboat | 1960 | TV Series | Wingate Pardee |
Cimarron | 1960 | | Judge Neal Hefner |
Wagon Train | 1957-1960 | TV Series | Ben Mattox / Thaddeus Briscoe |
Stagecoach West | 1960 | TV Series | Lum Jensen |
Assignment: Underwater | 1960 | TV Series | Charlie Noble |
Bat Masterson | 1960 | TV Series | Cactus Charlie |
Bronco | 1960 | TV Series | 'Pop' Ben Owens |
Four Fast Guns | 1960 | | Dipper |
Stump Run | 1959 | | Buck Gaskin |
The Deputy | 1959 | TV Series | Isbel |
Edge of Eternity | 1959 | | Sheriff Edwards |
Hound-Dog Man | 1959 | | Doc Cole |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents | 1959 | TV Series | Pops |
It Started with a Kiss | 1959 | | Congressman Richard Tappe |
Whirlybirds | 1959 | TV Series | Burton |
General Electric Theater | 1955-1959 | TV Series | Timothy Dwight / Doctor / Parson Meacham / ... |
King of the Wild Stallions | 1959 | | Idaho |
The Californians | 1958-1959 | TV Series | Major / Dutch |
Wanted: Dead or Alive | 1959 | TV Series | Chester Blake / Pop Michaels |
Trackdown | 1959 | TV Series | Tully Saxon |
Lawman | 1959 | TV Series | Jess Miller |
Cimarron City | 1958 | TV Series | Shanty |
26 Men | 1958 | TV Series | |
The Millionaire | 1958 | TV Series | William Eliot Vaughan |
The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna | 1958 | TV Series | Jasper Stokes |
Studio One in Hollywood | 1958 | TV Series | Dan Ferris |
The Restless Gun | 1958 | TV Series | Sheriff Jeb Barnes / Ethan Greenfield |
The Sheepman | 1958 | | Milt Masters |
The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet | 1956-1958 | TV Series | Park Commissioner / Judge Willoughby |
The Adventures of Jim Bowie | 1958 | TV Series | Ringtail Jack |
Day of the Badman | 1958 | | Sam Wyckoff |
Climax! | 1957 | TV Series | Constable / Spencer |
Schlitz Playhouse | 1957 | TV Series | Henry Maguire |
The Christophers | 1957 | TV Series | John Augustus |
Spoilers of the Forest | 1957 | | Tom Duncan |
Judge Roy Bean | 1956-1957 | TV Series | Judge Roy Bean |
Crossroads | 1956 | TV Series | Bart Alden |
Strange Stories | 1956 | TV Series | |
Telephone Time | 1956 | TV Series | Horace Greeley |
Make Room for Daddy | 1953-1956 | TV Series | Captain Critch / Captain Chris |
Come Next Spring | 1956 | | Mr. Canary |
Screen Directors Playhouse | 1955 | TV Series | Sub Doyal |
Luke and the Tenderfoot | 1955 | TV Series | Luke Herkimer |
Wichita | 1955 | | Doc Black |
The Lonesome Trail | 1955 | | Dan Wells |
The Ford Television Theatre | 1955 | TV Series | Papa Mumby |
Cavalcade of America | 1953-1955 | TV Series | Horace Greeley / Doc Mathew |
The Silver Star | 1955 | | Will 'Bill' Dowdy (as Edgar Buchanon) |
Rage at Dawn | 1955 | | Judge |
Destry | 1954 | | Mayor Sellers |
Dawn at Socorro | 1954 | | Sheriff Cauthen |
Human Desire | 1954 | | Alec Simmons |
Hopalong Cassidy | 1952-1954 | TV Series | Red Connors Sheriff Red Connors |
Make Haste to Live | 1954 | | Sheriff Lafe |
She Couldn't Say No | 1954 | | Ed Meeker |
Crown Theatre with Gloria Swanson | -1954 | TV Series | Uncle Harry |
Waterfront | 1954 | TV Series | Oscar Hanline |
Shane | 1953 | | Fred Lewis |
It Happens Every Thursday | 1953 | | Jake |
Toughest Man in Arizona | 1952 | | Jim Hadlock |
Wild Stallion | 1952 | | John Wintergreen |
The Big Trees | 1952 | | Walter 'Yukon' Burns |
Flaming Feather | 1952 | | Sgt. O'Rourke |
Silver City | 1951 | | Dutch Surrency |
Cave of Outlaws | 1951 | | Dobbs |
Rawhide | 1951 | | Sam Todd |
The Bigelow Theatre | 1951 | TV Series | |
The Great Missouri Raid | 1951 | | Dr. Samuels |
Hollywood Theatre Time | 1950 | TV Series | |
Devil's Doorway | 1950 | | Zeke Carmody |
The Big Hangover | 1950 | | Uncle Fred Mahoney |
Cargo to Capetown | 1950 | | Sam Bennett |
Cheaper by the Dozen | 1950 | | Dr. Burton |
Any Number Can Play | 1949 | | Ed |
Lust for Gold | 1949 | | Wiser |
Red Canyon | 1949 | | Jonah Johnson |
The Walking Hills | 1949 | | Old Willy |
The Untamed Breed | 1948 | | John Rambeau |
The Man from Colorado | 1948 | | Doc Merriam |
Coroner Creek | 1948 | | Sheriff O'Hea |
Best Man Wins | 1948 | | Jim Smiley |
Adventures in Silverado | 1948 | | Dr. Hendersonn, aka The Monk |
The Black Arrow | 1948 | | Lawless |
The Wreck of the Hesperus | 1948 | | George Lockhart |
The Swordsman | 1948 | | Angus MacArden |
Framed | 1947 | | Jeff Cunningham |
The Sea of Grass | 1947 | | Jeff, Cook on Brewton Ranch |
If I'm Lucky | 1946 | | Darius J. Magonnagle |
Renegades | 1946 | | Kirk Dembrow |
The Walls Came Tumbling Down | 1946 | | Rev. George Bradford |
Perilous Holiday | 1946 | | George Richards |
Abilene Town | 1946 | | Sheriff 'Bravo' Trimble |
The Fighting Guardsman | 1946 | | Pepe, Bandit-Valet |
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest | 1945 | | Friar Tuck |
Strange Affair | 1944 | | Lt. Washburn |
The Impatient Years | 1944 | | Judge |
Bride by Mistake | 1944 | | Jonathan Connors |
Buffalo Bill | 1944 | | Sgt. Chips McGraw |
Destroyer | 1943 | | Kansus Jackson |
Good Luck, Mr. Yates | 1943 | | Jonesey Jones |
The Desperadoes | 1943 | | Uncle Willie McLeod |
City Without Men | 1943 | | Judge Michael T. Mallory |
The Talk of the Town | 1942 | | Sam Yates |
Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die | 1942 | | Curly Bill Brocious |
You Belong to Me | 1941 | | Billings |
Texas | 1941 | | Buford 'Doc' Thorpe |
The Richest Man in Town | 1941 | | Pete Martin |
Her First Beau | 1941 | | Elmer Tuttle |
Penny Serenade | 1941 | | Applejack |
Arizona | 1940 | | Judge Bogardus |
When the Daltons Rode | 1940 | | Narrator / Old-Timer (uncredited) |
The Sea Hawk | 1940 | | Ben Rollins (uncredited) |
Escape to Glory | 1940 | | Charles Atterbee |
Tear Gas Squad | 1940 | | Cousin Andy |
3 Cheers for the Irish | 1940 | | Party Guest (uncredited) |
Too Many Husbands | 1940 | | McDermott |
My Son Is Guilty | 1939 | | Dan, Bartender |
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