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Edgar Buchanan
★ Acting

Edgar Buchanan

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1903 – 1979 · Humansville, Missouri, USA · Active 1939–2005

Edgar Buchanan, born in 1903 in Humansville, Missouri, made a significant impact on cult cinema with his roles in Devil's Partner (1961) and Ride the High Country (1962). Initially pushed towards dentistry by his father, Buchanan's passion for acting prevailed, leading him to study theater at the University of Oregon. His portrayal of quirky characters, such as in The Over the Hill Gang (1969), solidified his status in the genre, where his distinctive charm and comedic timing resonate with audiences drawn to the unconventional narratives of cult films.

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The Over the Hill Gang

The Over the Hill Gang

1969 ★ 5.6
as Jason Fitch

A retired Texas Ranger and three aged pals help to clean up a town run by a crooked mayor, a drunken judge and a trigger-happy sheriff.

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Ride the High Country (1962) Movie Poster - SassyFlix
Ride the High Country
1962 · ★7.0
Devil's Partner (1961) Movie Poster - SassyFlix
Devil's Partner
1961 · ★4.6
Career Highlights Top 6 by popularity · TMDB
The Twilight Zone (1959)
The Twilight Zone
1959
Shane (1953)
Shane
1953
Bonanza (1959)
Bonanza
1959
McLintock! (1963)
McLintock!
1963
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Ride the High Country (1962)
Ride the High Country
1962

Filmography

173 credits
2000s 1 credit
2005
The History of Hooterville as Self (archive footage)
Movie
1980s 1 credit
1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Movie ★ 7.0
1970s 7 credits
1974
Benji as Bill
Movie ★ 6.3
1972
Sam Cade as J.J. Jackson
Movie
1972
The Marshal of Madrid as Deputy JJ Jackson
Movie
1971
Yuma as Mules McNeil
Movie ★ 6.0
1971
Cade's County as Senior Deputy J.J. Jackson
TV ★ 6.0
1970
The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again as Jason Fitch
Movie ★ 5.6
1970
The Partridge Family as Judge McElwreath
TV ★ 6.9
1960s 41 credits
1969
The Over the Hill Gang● as Jason Fitch
Movie ★ 5.8
1969
Angel in My Pocket as Axel Gresham
Movie ★ 6.2
1968
Something for a Lonely Man as Old Man Wolenski
Movie ★ 7.6
1968
The Mod Squad as Hargis
TV ★ 6.1
1967
Welcome to Hard Times as Brown
Movie ★ 5.3
1966
Gunpoint as Bull
Movie ★ 6.2
1965
The Rounders as Vince Moore
Movie ★ 5.5
1965
The Man from Button Willow as Sorry (voice)
Movie ★ 5.3
1965
Green Acres as Uncle Joe Carson
TV ★ 7.2
1963
Move Over, Darling as Judge Bryson
Movie ★ 6.7
1963
McLintock! as Bunny Dull
Movie ★ 6.6
1963
Donovan's Reef as Francis O'Brien
Movie ★ 6.3
1963
A Ticklish Affair as Captain Martin / Gramps
Movie ★ 5.9
1963
Petticoat Junction as Uncle Joe Carson
TV ★ 5.8
1963
Vacation Playhouse as Luke
TV ★ 8.0
1962
Ride the High Country● as Judge Tolliver
Movie ★ 7.1
1962
Flashing Spikes as Crab Holman
Movie ★ 6.8
1962
The Beverly Hillbillies as Uncle Joe Carson
TV ★ 6.9
1962
The Merv Griffin Show as Self
TV ★ 6.6
1962
Stoney Burke
TV ★ 6.8
1962
The Lloyd Bridges Show as Doc Lawton
TV ★ 6.0
1961
The Comancheros as Circuit Court Judge Thaddeus Jackson Breen
Movie ★ 6.7
1961
Tammy Tell Me True as Judge Carver
Movie ★ 6.3
1961
Devil's Partner● as Doc Lucas
Movie ★ 5.5
1961
Bus Stop
TV ★ 10.0
1961
Dr. Kildare as Steve Devitt
TV ★ 5.7
1961
Dr. Kildare as Judge Wilfred Manning
TV ★ 5.7
1960
Cimarron as Judge Neal Hefner
Movie ★ 6.1
1960
Four Fast Guns as Dipper
Movie ★ 5.9
1960
Stump Run
Movie ★ 10.0
1960
Chartroose Caboose as Woodrow 'Woody' Watts
Movie ★ 10.0
1960
The Andy Griffith Show as Henry Wheeler
TV ★ 7.6
1960
Route 66
TV ★ 6.7
1960
The Tall Man
TV ★ 6.9
1960
Bringing Up Buddy
TV ★ 9.0
1960
Outlaws
TV ★ 6.7
1960
Thriller as Doc O'Connor
TV ★ 6.7
1960
National Velvet as Grandpa Harwell
TV ★ 8.8
1960
The Barbara Stanwyck Show as Judge Franklin
TV ★ 6.4
1960
Route 66 as Magistrate Abe Chumley
TV ★ 6.7
1960
Stagecoach West as Lum Jensen
TV ★ 6.7
1950s 79 credits
1959
Edge of Eternity as Sheriff Edwards
Movie ★ 6.7
1959
It Started with a Kiss as Congressman Richard Tappe
Movie ★ 5.5
1959
King of the Wild Stallions as Idaho
Movie ★ 6.8
1959
Hound-Dog Man as Doc Cole
Movie ★ 4.7
1959
The Twilight Zone as Doc Bolton
TV ★ 8.5
1959
Laramie
TV ★ 6.7
1959
Riverboat as Wingate Pardee
TV ★ 6.5
1959
Bonanza as Hallelujah Hicks
TV ★ 7.5
1958
The Sheepman as Milt Masters
Movie ★ 6.9
1958
Day of the Badman as Sam Wyckoff
Movie ★ 6.8
1958
Bronco
TV ★ 6.0
1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive as Pop Michaels
TV ★ 7.0
1958
The Rifleman
TV ★ 7.1
1958
Bat Masterson as Cactus Charlie
TV ★ 6.1
1958
The Rifleman as Grandpa Fogarty
TV ★ 7.1
1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive as Chester Blake
TV ★ 7.0
1958
The Rifleman as Doc J. Burrage
TV ★ 7.1
1957
Spoilers of the Forest as Tom Duncan
Movie ★ 6.0
1957
Perry Mason as Andy Templet
TV ★ 7.7
1957
Leave It to Beaver as Captain Jack
TV ★ 7.0
1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV ★ 7.3
1957
26 Men
TV ★ 5.0
1957
Maverick as Jed Christianson
TV ★ 6.9
1957
The Californians as Major
TV ★ 5.8
1957
Wagon Train as Ben Mattox
TV ★ 6.6
1957
Maverick as Daddy David Forge
TV ★ 6.9
1957
Perry Mason as Judge Edward Daley
TV ★ 7.7
1957
Maverick as Sheriff Hadley
TV ★ 6.9
1957
The Restless Gun as Ethan Greenfield
TV ★ 4.4
1957
Wagon Train as Thaddeus Briscoe
TV ★ 6.6
1957
Trackdown as Tully Saxon
TV ★ 6.9
1956
Come Next Spring as Mr. Canary
Movie ★ 5.9
1956
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
TV ★ 5.3
1956
The Gale Storm Show as Jasper Stokes
TV ★ 6.7
1955
Wichita as Doc Black
Movie ★ 6.3
1955
The Silver Star as Will 'Bill' Dowdy (as Edgar Buchanon)
Movie ★ 5.5
1955
Rage at Dawn as Judge
Movie ★ 6.2
1955
The Lonesome Trail as Dan Wells
Movie ★ 8.0
1955
The Brush Roper as Sub Doyal
Movie
1955
Gunsmoke as Dan
TV ★ 6.7
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Pops
TV ★ 7.8
1955
The Millionaire as William Eliot Vaughan
TV ★ 5.8
1955
Judge Roy Bean
TV ★ 7.0
1955
Gunsmoke as York
TV ★ 6.7
1954
Human Desire as Alec Simmons
Movie ★ 6.8
1954
Make Haste to Live as Sheriff Lafe
Movie ★ 6.0
1954
Destry as The Honorable Hiram J. Sellers, Mayor
Movie ★ 6.2
1954
She Couldn't Say No as Ed Meeker
Movie ★ 5.7
1954
Dawn at Socorro as Sheriff Cauthen
Movie ★ 7.2
1954
Climax! as Spencer
TV ★ 3.8
1954
Climax! as Constable
TV ★ 3.8
1953
Shane as Fred Lewis
Movie ★ 7.3
1953
It Happens Every Thursday as Jake
Movie ★ 6.3
1953
General Electric Theater as Buckskin
TV ★ 6.8
1953
General Electric Theater as Colonel Starbottle
TV ★ 6.8
1953
General Electric Theater as Preacher Bailey
TV ★ 6.8
1953
General Electric Theater as Parson Meacham
TV ★ 6.8
1953
General Electric Theater as Doctor
TV ★ 6.8
1953
General Electric Theater as Timothy Dwight
TV ★ 6.8
1953
The Danny Thomas Show as Captain Archie
TV ★ 6.2
1952
The Big Trees as Walter 'Yukon' Burns
Movie ★ 5.6
1952
Wild Stallion as John Wintergreen
Movie ★ 6.7
1952
Toughest Man in Arizona as Jim Hadlock
Movie ★ 7.0
1952
Flaming Feather as Sgt. O'Rourke
Movie ★ 6.3
1952
Cavalcade of America
TV ★ 4.6
1952
Hopalong Cassidy as Red Connors
TV ★ 5.4
1952
Cavalcade of America as Horace Greeley
TV ★ 4.6
1952
Cavalcade of America as Doc Mathew
TV ★ 4.6
1952
The Ford Television Theatre as Papa Mumby
TV ★ 7.8
1952
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet as Park Commissioner
TV ★ 6.2
1951
Rawhide as Sam Todd
Movie ★ 6.7
1951
Cave of Outlaws as Dobbs
Movie ★ 5.4
1951
The Great Missouri Raid as Dr. Samuels
Movie ★ 6.8
1951
Silver City as Dutch Surrency
Movie ★ 6.6
1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Henry Maguire
TV ★ 7.2
1950
Devil's Doorway as Zeke Carmody
Movie ★ 6.9
1950
Cargo to Capetown as Sam Bennett
Movie ★ 6.6
1950
The Big Hangover as Uncle Fred Mahoney
Movie ★ 6.4
1950
Cheaper by the Dozen as Dr. Burton
Movie ★ 6.4
1940s 43 credits
1949
Lust for Gold as Wiser
Movie ★ 6.0
1949
Any Number Can Play as Ed
Movie ★ 6.9
1949
Red Canyon as Jonah Johnson
Movie ★ 5.8
1949
The Walking Hills as Old Willy
Movie ★ 6.1
1948
Coroner Creek as Sheriff O'Hea
Movie ★ 6.2
1948
The Man from Colorado as Doc Merriam
Movie ★ 6.9
1948
Adventures in Silverado as Dr. Hendersonn
Movie ★ 7.0
1948
The Swordsman as Angus MacArden
Movie ★ 7.3
1948
The Untamed Breed as John Rambeau
Movie ★ 6.5
1948
The Black Arrow as Lawless
Movie ★ 5.5
1948
Best Man Wins as Jim Smiley
Movie ★ 7.0
1948
The Wreck of the Hesperus as George Lockhart
Movie ★ 7.0
1948
Studio One as Dan Ferris
TV ★ 5.4
1947
Framed as Jeff Cunningham
Movie ★ 6.5
1947
The Sea of Grass as Jeff
Movie ★ 6.1
1946
Abilene Town as Sheriff Bravo Trimble
Movie ★ 5.3
1946
The Walls Came Tumbling Down as George Bradford
Movie ★ 6.2
1946
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest as Friar Tuck
Movie ★ 5.3
1946
Renegades as Kirk Dembrow
Movie ★ 5.8
1946
If I'm Lucky as Darius J. Magonnagle
Movie ★ 6.7
1946
Perilous Holiday as George Richards
Movie ★ 8.0
1945
The Fighting Guardsman as Brown
Movie ★ 8.5
1944
Buffalo Bill as Sgt. Chips McGraw
Movie ★ 5.8
1944
The Impatient Years as Judge
Movie ★ 6.7
1944
Bride by Mistake as Jonathan Connors
Movie ★ 6.7
1944
Strange Affair as Lt. Washburn
Movie ★ 6.2
1943
Destroyer as Kansas Jackson
Movie ★ 6.8
1943
Good Luck, Mr. Yates as Jonesey Jones
Movie ★ 6.5
1943
City Without Men as Judge Michael T. Mallory
Movie ★ 5.7
1943
The Desperadoes as Uncle Willie McLeod
Movie ★ 5.9
1942
The Talk of the Town as Sam Yates
Movie ★ 7.3
1942
Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die as Curly Bill
Movie ★ 6.1
1941
Penny Serenade as Applejack Carney
Movie ★ 6.6
1941
You Belong to Me as Billings
Movie ★ 6.0
1941
Texas as Buford 'Doc' Thorpe
Movie ★ 6.6
1941
The Richest Man in Town as Pete Martin
Movie ★ 10.0
1941
Her First Beau as Elmer Tuttle
Movie ★ 6.5
1940
Too Many Husbands as McDermott
Movie ★ 6.5
1940
When the Daltons Rode as Narrator / Old-Timer (uncredited)
Movie ★ 6.2
1940
Escape to Glory as Charles Atterbee
Movie ★ 7.5
1940
Arizona as Judge Bogardus
Movie ★ 6.5
1940
The Sea Hawk as Ben Rollins
Movie ★ 7.2
1940
Tear Gas Squad as Cousin Andy
Movie ★ 5.3
1930s 1 credit
1939
My Son Is Guilty as Dan, Bartender
Movie ★ 7.5