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William Edgar Buchanan II (March 20, 1903 – April 4, 1979) was an American actor with a long career in both film and television. He is most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction , [ 1 ] Green Acres , and The Beverly Hillbillies television sitcoms of the 1960s.
In 1966, MacRae signed a contract with CBS to play Billie Jo Bradley on the sitcom Petticoat Junction, starring Bea Benaderet as her television mother and Edgar Buchanan as her television uncle. Her television sisters were Betty Jo, played by Linda Kaye Henning, and Bobbie Jo, played by Lori Saunders.
"The Farmer Takes a Wife" (2.13) Known for playing the Skipper on Gilligan's Island and had his own earlier series playing famed railroad engineer Casey Jones: Howard Hesseman: Counterboy Harry "Goober Goes to an Auto Show" (8.22) "Sam for Town Council" (8.27) Credited as Don Sturdy.
The show centers on the goings-on at the rural Shady Rest Hotel. Widowed Kate Bradley (Bea Benaderet) is the proprietress.Her lazy but lovable Uncle Joe Carson (Edgar Buchanan) supposedly helps her in the day-to-day running of the hotel, while she serves as a mediator in the various minor crises that befall her three beautiful daughters: redhead Betty Jo (Linda Kaye Henning); brunette Bobbie ...
He and his wife Patricia continued to live in Beverly Hills. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] During his retirement years, he remained friends with Fred Astaire , with whom he attended Dodgers games. An avid golfer with a putting green in his yard, Scott was a member of the Bel Air Country Club, Los Angeles Country Club and Eldorado Country Club in Indian Wells ...
You Belong to Me is a 1941 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Wesley Ruggles and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda and Edgar Buchanan. Based on a story by Dalton Trumbo, and written by Claude Binyon, the film is about a wealthy man who meets and falls in love with a beautiful doctor while on a ski trip.
Laraine Day and Marsha Hunt were borrowed from MGM, Alan Marshall was borrowed from David O. Selznick, Allyn Jolson was borrowed from 20th Century Fox and Edgar Buchanan was borrowed from Columbia. Filming started in March 1944. [8] The film was called That Hunter Girl but the title was changed to Bride By Mistake in May 1944. [9]
Beatrice Benaderet was born on April 4, 1906, [1] [2] [3] [note 1] in New York City. [4] [6] [7] Her mother, Margaret (née O'Keefe), was Irish American, [8] [9] and her father, Samuel David Benaderet, [10] a Sephardic Jewish emigrant from what is now Turkey, [11] was a tobacconist who relocated the family from New York City to San Francisco in 1915 after his participation in the Panama ...