Edgar Buchanan, interesting facts -
William Edgar Buchanan II (1903 – 1979) was an actor with a long career in television and film. Most familiar as Uncle Joe Carson from Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, and The Beverly Hillbillies television shows of the 1960s.
Here are some interesting facts about Edgar Buchanan…
Edgar appeared in more than 100 films, including 1941s Texas, where he played a dentist and appeared with Glenn Ford and William Holden then later in 1941s Penny Serenade with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, 1942s Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die, in the same year, The Talk of the Town with Ronald Colman and Jean Arthur, 1948s The Man from Colorado, 1950s Cheaper by the Dozen, 1954s She Couldn't Say No, 1962s Ride the High Country with Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott, 1963s McLintock! with John Wayne, in the same year Move Over, Darling with James Garner and Doris Day, and 1974s Benji.
Some of the many television series in which he was cast as a guest star were The Californians, Cimarron City and The Rifleman. Edgar appeared in six episodes of The Rifleman, playing Grandpa Fogerty in “The Long Goodbye” and Doc Burrage in the other five: “The Pet”, “The Second Witness”, “The Trade”, “The Deadly Wait”, and “The Angry Man”. In addition to other widely varying roles on the series (from sympathetic parts to vicious villains), he played Jed Christianson in the episode "Duel at Sundown" on Maverick with Clint Eastwood and James Garner. 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, Route 66, Bringing Up Buddy, Bus Stop, and The Lloyd Bridges Show.
His roles as a regular cast member in television programs included Red Connors in the syndicated Western Hopalong Cassidy, and J.J. Jackson in the crime drama Cade's County.
Buchanan appeared in all 222 episodes of Petticoat Junction as Uncle Joe Carson, 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. On Petticoat Junction, he took over as proprietor of the Shady Rest Hotel following the 1968 death of Bea Benaderet, who had played Kate Bradley; Buchanan had starred as second lead since the series' inception. In the 1966 episode "The All-Night Party" and in the 1969 episode "Kathy Jo's First Birthday Party", he appeared with his real-life son, Buck (who had a cameo as a party goer and an ice cream vendor). Another star from Petticoat Junction and he appeared together in the 1974 movie Benji; the other "star" was Higgins the dog, who played the title character.
Buchanan appeared in multiple episodes of "Tales of Wells Fargo," starring Dale Robertson. Playing the recurring role of a rascally ex-outlaw Doc Dawson.