death_date death_place years_active birth_place son name birth_date spouse image article_title birth_name occupation
04 april 1979 palm desert , california , u.s. 1939 -- 74 humansville , missouri , u.s. william -- 2005 -rrb- edgar buchanan ii `` buck '' -lrb- 1946 edgar buchanan 20 march 1903 mildred 1 son marguerite spence -lrb- 1928 -- 79 -rrb- ; edgar buchanan.jpg edgar buchanan
 william edgar buchanan dentist , actor , singer
edgar buchanan

edgar buchanan -lrb- march 20 , 1903 -- april 4 , 1979 -rrb- 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 `` the beverly hillbillies '' television sitcoms of the 1960s .
as uncle joe , he took over as proprietor of the shady rest hotel following the 1968 real life death of bea benaderet , who had played kate bradley .
