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Edgar Buchanan

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Edgar Buchanan (March 20, 1903 – April 4, 1979) was an American actor with a long career in both film and television, most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction, Green Acres and Beverly Hillbillies television sitcoms of the 1960s. As Uncle Joe, he took over as proprietor of the Sha... more

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Edgar Buchanan (March 20, 1903 – April 4, 1979) was an American actor with a long career in both film and television, most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction, Green Acres and Beverly Hillbillies television sitcoms of the 1960s. As Uncle Joe, he took over as proprietor of the Shady Rest Hotel following the death of Bea Benaderet, who had played Kate Bradley.

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Shane
(1953)
Drama, Western
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.
Runtime:
118 min
Director:
George Stevens
Cast:
Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon De Wilde, Jack Palance
7.6
97%
80
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McLintock!
(1963)
Comedy, Western
Ageing, wealthy, rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of his enormous farmstead, including high-ranking government men, McLintock's own sons and nearby Native Americans. As McLintock tries to juggle his various adversa...
Runtime:
127 min
Director:
Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast:
John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Yvonne De Carlo, Patrick Wayne, Stefanie Powers
7.2
57%
62
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Ride the High Country
(1962)
Action, Western
An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.
Runtime:
94 min
Director:
Sam Peckinpah
Cast:
Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr, Edgar Buchanan
7.6
93%
N/A
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The Talk of the Town
(1942)
Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
When the Holmes Woolen Mill burns down, political activist Leopold Dilg is jailed for arson and accidental murder. Escaping, Leopold hides out in the home of his childhood sweetheart Nora Shelley... which she has just rented to unsuspecting law professor Michael Lightcap.
Runtime:
118 min
Director:
George Stevens
Cast:
Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Edgar Buchanan, Glenda Farrell
7.5
88%
N/A
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Donovan's Reef
(1963)
Adventure, Comedy, Romance
'Guns' Donovan prefers carousing with his pals Doc Dedham and 'Boats' Gilhooley, until Dedham's high-society daughter Amelia shows up in their South Seas paradise.
Runtime:
109 min
Director:
John Ford
Cast:
John Wayne, John Wayne, Elizabeth Allen, Lee Marvin, Lee Marvin
6.9
54%
64
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The Comancheros
(1961)
Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
Runtime:
105 min
Director:
Michael Curtiz
Cast:
John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin, Nehemiah Persoff, Lee Marvin
6.9
100%
N/A
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Human Desire
(1954)
Drama, Romance
Jeff Warren, a Korean War vet just returning to his railroad engineer's job, boards at the home of co-worker Alec Simmons and is charmed by Alec's beautiful daughter. He becomes attracted immediately to Vicki Buckley, the sultry wife of brutish railroad supervisor Carl Buckley, an alcoholic wife beater with a hair-trigger temper and pe...
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Fritz Lang
Cast:
Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Edgar Buchanan, Kathleen Case
7.1
59%
N/A
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Penny Serenade
(1941)
Drama, Romance
While listening to a recording of Penny Serenade, Julie Gardiner Adams begins reflecting on her past. She recalls her impulsive marriage to newspaper reporter Roger Adams, which begins on a deliriously happy note but turns out to be fraught with tragedy. Other songs remind her of their courtship, their marriage, their desire for a chil...
Runtime:
119 min
Director:
George Stevens
Cast:
Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi, Edgar Buchanan, Ann Doran
7.2
93%
N/A
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Cheaper by the Dozen
(1950)
Comedy, Drama, Family
"Cheaper by the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island, to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in large families.
Runtime:
85 min
Director:
Walter Lang
Cast:
Clifton Webb, Myrna Loy, Jeanne Crain, Betty Lynn, Edgar Buchanan
7.1
N/A
N/A
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Move Over, Darling
(1963)
Comedy, Romance
Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen presumably perishes when swept off her lifeboat, her body never recovered. Fast forward five...
Runtime:
103 min
Director:
Michael Gordon
Cast:
Doris Day, James Garner, Don Knotts, Chuck Connors, John Astin
7.0
N/A
N/A
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Benji
(1974)
Adventure, Family, Romance
Benji is a stray who has nonetheless worked his way into the hearts of a number of the townspeople, who give him food and attention whenever he stops by. His particular favorites are a pair of children who feed and play with him against the wishes of their parents. When the children are kidnapped, however, the parents and the police ar...
Runtime:
86 min
Director:
Joe Camp
Cast:
Patsy Garrett, Higgins, Allen Fiuzat, Patsy Garrett, Cynthia Smith
6.1
86%
35
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Rawhide
(1951)
Western
Not a Rowdy Yates in sight in this western set in a stop over for the California to St Louis mail stagecoach run. The two staff are warned that four dangerous outlaws are in the area, and together with a female stage passenger and her baby they wait patiently for the word to go round that these men have been caught. Can you guess where...
Runtime:
89 min
Director:
Henry Hathaway
Cast:
Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Hugh Marlowe, Dean Jagger, Edgar Buchanan
7.1
N/A
N/A
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The Sheepman
(1958)
Comedy, Western
A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears with his stock: a herd of sheep, which he intends to graze on the range. The horrified inhabitants decide to run him out at all costs
Runtime:
85 min
6.9
N/A
N/A
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Cimarron
(1960)
Drama, Western
The epic story of a family that's involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush in 1889.
Runtime:
147 min
Director:
Anthony Mann
Cast:
Glenn Ford, Maria Schell, Anne Baxter, Arthur O'Connell, Russ Tamblyn
6.4
N/A
N/A
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Devil's Doorway
(1950)
Western
A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.
Runtime:
84 min
Director:
Anthony Mann
Cast:
Robert Taylor, Louis Calhern, Paula Raymond, Marshall Thompson, James Mitchell
7.3
N/A
N/A
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The Rounders
(1965)
Comedy, Western
Ben (Glenn Ford) and Marion (Henry Fonda) are two cowboys who make a meager living breaking wild horses. Their frequent employer Jim (Chill Wills), who always gets the better of them, talks them into taking a nondescript horse in lieu of some of their wages. Ben finds that the horse is un-rideable, he comes up with the idea of taking i...
Runtime:
85 min
Director:
Burt Kennedy
Cast:
Glenn Ford, Henry Fonda, Hope Holiday, Chill Wills, Edgar Buchanan
6.2
N/A
N/A
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The Sea of Grass
(1947)
Drama, Western
A St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
Runtime:
123 min
6.4
17%
N/A
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Wichita
(1955)
Action, Romance, Western
Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. His skill as a gun-fighter make him a perfect candidate for Marshal but he refuses the job until he feels morally obligated to bring law and order to this wild town.
Runtime:
81 min
Director:
Jacques Tourneur
Cast:
Joel McCrea, Vera Miles, Lloyd Bridges, Wallace Ford, Jack Elam
6.9
N/A
N/A
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The Man from Colorado
(1948)
Action, Drama, Western
Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of them has had deep-rooted psychological damage due to his experiences during the war, and as his behavior becomes more erratic--and violent--his friend desperately tries to find a way to help him.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Henry Levin
Cast:
Glenn Ford, William Holden, Ellen Drew, Ray Collins, Edgar Buchanan
6.7
N/A
N/A
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Too Many Husbands
(1940)
Comedy
Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.
Runtime:
81 min
6.6
N/A
N/A
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Framed
(1947)
Crime, Drama
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.
Runtime:
82 min
Director:
Richard Wallace
Cast:
Glenn Ford, Janis Carter, Barry Sullivan, Edgar Buchanan, Karen Morley
7.0
N/A
N/A
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Rage at Dawn
(1955)
Action, Western
In this film's version of the story, four of the Reno Brothers are corrupt robbers and killers while a fifth, Clint (Denver Pyle) is a respected Indiana farmer. A sister, Laura (Mala Powers), who has inherited the family home, serves the outlaw brothers as a housekeeper and cook. One brother is killed when they go after a bank, the men...
Runtime:
87 min
Director:
Tim Whelan
Cast:
Randolph Scott, Randolph Scott, Forrest Tucker, Mala Powers, J. Carrol Naish
6.0
N/A
N/A
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Buffalo Bill
(1944)
Action, Drama, Western
Scout William F. Cody (Joel McCrea) marries a U.S. senator's daughter (Maureen O'Hara), fights the Cheyenne and leads a Wild West show.
Runtime:
90 min
6.5
N/A
N/A
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Welcome to Hard Times
(1967)
Western
A sociopathic stranger all but destroys a small hardscrabble town but the 'mayor' convinces its survivors to stay and rebuild.
Runtime:
103 min
Director:
Burt Kennedy
Cast:
Henry Fonda, Janice Rule, Keenan Wynn, Janis Paige, Warren Oates
6.1
N/A
N/A
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Destry
(1954)
Western
Western remake of "Destry Rides Again", starring Audie Murphy, Mari Blanchard, Thomas Mitchell, Lori Nelson and Lyle Bettger.
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
George Marshall
Cast:
Audie Murphy, Mari Blanchard, Lyle Bettger, Lori Nelson, Thomas Mitchell
6.6
N/A
N/A
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Destroyer
(1943)
Adventure, Drama, War
Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, u...
Runtime:
99 min
6.6
N/A
N/A
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Lust for Gold
(1949)
Action, Western
A man determined to track down the fabled Arizona gold mine known as The Lost Dutchman has an affair with a married treasure hunter, whose pursuit of the mine has lead her to double-cross her husband.
Runtime:
90 min
7.0
N/A
N/A
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Abilene Town
(1946)
Romance, Western
Marshall Dan Mitchell, who is the law in Abilene, has the job of keeping peace between two groups. For a long time, the town had been divided, with the cattlemen and cowboys having one end of town to themselves, while townspeople occupied the other end. Mitchell liked it this way, it made things easier for him, and kept problems from a...
Runtime:
89 min
Director:
Edwin L. Marin
Cast:
Randolph Scott, Edgar Buchanan, Ann Dvorak, Rhonda Fleming, Lloyd Bridges
6.2
N/A
N/A
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The Big Trees
(1952)
Romance, Western
In 1900, unscrupulous timber baron Jim Fallon plans to take advantage of a new law and make millions off California redwood. Much of the land he hopes to grab has been homesteaded by a Quaker colony, who try to persuade him to spare the giant sequoias...but these are the very trees he wants most. Expert at manipulating others, Fallon f...
Runtime:
89 min
Director:
Felix E. Feist
Cast:
Kirk Douglas, Eve Miller, Patrice Wymore, Edgar Buchanan, John Archer
5.8
N/A
N/A
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Tammy Tell Me True
(1961)
Comedy, Romance
Tammy leaves the river in Mississippi to attend college, developing a relationship with Tom Freeman (John Gavin). Sandra Dee replaces Debbie Reynolds in this and the third Tammy movie. This film introduces both a new theme song, "Tammy Tell Me True", and the character of Mrs. Annie Call, played by veteran Beulah Bondi. Mrs. Call ultima...
Runtime:
97 min
Cast:
Sandra Dee, John Gavin, Charles Drake, Virginia Grey, Julia Meade
6.5
N/A
N/A
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Any Number Can Play
(1949)
Drama
When illegal casino owner Charley Enley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his work separate from his life at home. His son, Paul, feels ashamed of Charley's career and gets into a fight at his prom because of it. Meanwhile, Charley's brother...
Runtime:
112 min
Director:
Mervyn LeRoy
Cast:
Clark Gable, Alexis Smith, Wendell Corey, Audrey Totter, Frank Morgan
6.8
N/A
N/A
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Coroner Creek
(1948)
Western
A man is bent on taking revenge on those responsible for his fiancée's death.
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Ray Enright
Cast:
Randolph Scott, Marguerite Chapman, George Macready, Sally Eilers, Edgar Buchanan
6.7
N/A
N/A
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Edge of Eternity
(1959)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Helped by socialite Janice Kendon and barkeeper Scott O'Brien, Arizona deputy sheriff Les Martin works to solve three brutal murders in and around the Grand Canyon. His efforts leads to the killer fleeing with Janice as a hostage and a chase by car and helicopter lead to a climax on a miner's bucket on cables a mile above the canyon fl...
Runtime:
80 min
Director:
Don Siegel
Cast:
Cornel Wilde, Victoria Shaw, Mickey Shaughnessy, Edgar Buchanan, Jack Elam
6.3
N/A
N/A
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When the Daltons Rode
(1940)
Western
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. ...
Runtime:
81 min
Cast:
Randolph Scott, Kay Francis, Brian Donlevy, George Bancroft, Broderick Crawford
6.6
N/A
N/A
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Angel in My Pocket
(1969)
Comedy, Family
The new minister in a small town faces the challenge of winning over its eccentric citizens.
Runtime:
105 min
6.9
N/A
N/A
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The Walking Hills
(1949)
Western
A study in greed in which treasure hunters seek a shipment of gold buried in Death Valley.
Runtime:
78 min
Director:
John Sturges
Cast:
Randolph Scott, Ella Raines, Arthur Kennedy, Edgar Buchanan, John Ireland
6.7
N/A
N/A
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It Started with a Kiss
(1959)
Comedy, Romance
While on leave in New York, a serviceman both weds a chorus girl and wins a red convertible in a charity raffle. Both his wife and the car turn out to be problematic.
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
George Marshall
Cast:
Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Fred Clark, Eva Gabor, Gustavo Rojo
6.1
N/A
N/A
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The Over-the-Hill Gang
(1969)
Comedy, TV Movie, Western
Capt. Oren Hayes, a retired Texas Ranger, while visiting his daughter, finds that her husband is running for mayor against corrupt town boss, Nard Lundy. Lundy has no intention of allowing the free election of an honest man, so he has his henchmen do some dirty dealing. Hayes then calls for the help of some of his old buddies in the Ra...
Runtime:
75 min
Director:
Jean Yarbrough
Cast:
Walter Brennan, Edgar Buchanan, Andy Devine, Jack Elam, Gypsy Rose Lee
6.1
N/A
N/A
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Come Next Spring
(1956)
Drama
Matt Ballot has returned home after 12 years of hard-drinking in all 48 states. His wife has managed to raise their 14-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son nicely without his help. Matt is considered a disgrace to the town he came from and now he finds himself trying to win the love of his children, his wife, and the respect of the to...
Runtime:
92 min
Director:
R.G. Springsteen
Cast:
Ann Sheridan, Steve Cochran, Walter Brennan, Sherry Jackson, Richard Eyer
7.2
N/A
N/A
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She Couldn't Say No
(1954)
Comedy
An heiress decides to pass out anonymous gifts in a small town.
Runtime:
89 min
Director:
Lloyd Bacon
Cast:
Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Arthur Hunnicutt, Edgar Buchanan, Wallace Ford
5.8
N/A
N/A