I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.

Buchanan is perhaps best known for exploitation science fiction and other genre films including Free White and 21 High Yellow The Naked Witch (made for $8000) The Loch Ness Horror and Mistress of the Apes. Buchanan worked as an assistant on The Marrying Kind (1952). It was while working here where his film career got off the ground.

He is perhaps most famous for the films In the Year 2889 The Eye Creatures Mars Needs Women and It's Alive!. Many of his titles have landed on "worst movie" lists or in the public domain but all at least broke even and many made a profit.