Birthday

1893-05-03

Died

1974-08-17

Birthplace

Ceres, California, USA

Gender

Male

Known For

Acting

Edgar Dearing

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edgar Dearing (May 4, 1893 – August 17, 1974) was an American actor who became heavily type cast as a motorcycle cop in Hollywood films. Born in 1893, Dearing started in silent comedy shorts for Hal Roach, including several with Laurel and Hardy, notably in their classic Two Tars, probably his best ever screen role. He later had supporting roles in several of their features for 20th Century Fox in the 1940s. Dearing continued in his familiar persona until the early 1950s, when he appeared in many film and television westerns, usually as a sheriff. One of his guest roles was on the syndicated television series, The Range Rider, starring Jock Mahoney and Dick Jones. He was still active in films and television until he retired in the early 1960s; he died from lung cancer.

Acting Credits

Estrellados

Studio Gate Guard (uncredited)

My Girl Tisa

Jailer (uncredited)

Rich Uncles

Swing Out, Sister

Motorcycle Cop

Pollyanna

Mr. Gorman

Go West

Bill - Train Engineer (uncredited)

Three Loves Has Nancy

Bus Conductor (uncredited)

Free and Easy

Officer

Rancho Notorious

Sheriff #4 (uncredited)

As You Were

Sgt. Monahan

Nick Carter, Master Detective

Harbor Patrol Sgt. Denny

The Midnight Patrol

Policeman (uncredited)

Call of the Cuckoo

Guest

The Iroquois Trail

Two Plus Fours

Rent Collector

Helldorado

Motorcycle Cop

A Gentleman After Dark

Joe

Rendezvous

1st Military Policeman (uncredited)

Full Confession

Lieutenant Thatcher (uncredited)

Ruby Gentry

My Brother Talks to Horses

Policeman (uncredited)

Maid's Night Out

Police Detective (uncredited)

They Gave Him a Gun

Sgt. Meadowlark

Eskimo

Constable Balk (uncredited)

The Nuisance

Policeman at Streetcar (uncredited)

When the Daltons Rode

Sheriff

Consolation Marriage

Mulligan - a Policeman (uncredited)

Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite

Jim Simmons

Flight

Football Coach

The Star Witness

Henchman Jim Sockett (uncredited)

The Lost Squadron

Policeman Wanting Report (uncredited)

Live and Learn

Mr. Smith

Traffic Tangle

Motor Cop

Fired Wife

Sullivan

You Can't Take It with You

Bill - Plainclothes Policeman (uncredited)

Honolulu

Jailer

Magic Town

Questioning Grandview Citizen (uncredited)

Limousine Love

Motorcycle cop

Where There's Life

Desk Sergeant (uncredited)

My Favorite Blonde

Joe - Policeman

And the Angels Sing

Man (uncredited)

The Jones Family in Hollywood

Studio Policeman (uncredited)

A Pair of Tights

Policeman (uncredited)

A Man from Wyoming

Sergeant

Cross-Country Romance

Ed Sweeney

Abraham Lincoln

Armstrong

The Painted Desert

Buck's Partner

Came the Dawn

Big Moving Man (uncredited)

Should Tall Men Marry?

Henchman

Border G-Man

Smoky Joslin

It Happened in Hollywood

Joe Stevens

Should Men Walk Home?

Pot o' Gold

Police Officer McGinty (uncredited)

Midnight Taxi

Officer Murray

Blondie

Policeman at Hotel (uncredited)

Clunked on the Corner

Cop

Love Is a Headache

Detective 'Pinch' Reardon (uncredited)

Hold That Kiss

Policeman

Four Girls in White

Motorcycle Cop Going to Accident

The Virginian

Stolen Harmony

Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)

Spring Madness

Policeman

Out of the Storm

Ed Purcell

The Nitwits

Police Officer Barney Riley

Kentucky Kernels

Policeman (uncredited)

Manhattan Heartbeat

Policeman

King of the Underworld

Police Detective (uncredited)

King of the Underworld

First Policeman (uncredited)

Made for Each Other

Mounted Policeman (uncredited)

Blondie Meets the Boss

Officer McGuire (uncredited)

Rose of Washington Square

Lieutenant (uncredited)

It's a Wonderful World

Actor as 'Captain Flagg' (uncredited)

A Child Is Born

Police Sergeant (uncredited)

Thunder Afloat

Petty Officer (uncredited)

The Gracie Allen Murder Case

Motorcycle Officer Corrigan

Ocean Swells

Captain

Dust Be My Destiny

Second Railroad Cop (uncredited)

Pecos River

Henry Mahoney

Vice Squad

Fitz (uncredited)

Christmas Eve

Police Sergeant (uncredited)

Cha-Cha-Cha Boom!

Investor Charlie

It Came from Outer Space

Sam, a hobo (uncredited)

Hollywood Boulevard

Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)

Glory Alley

Man at Gym (uncredited)

Scarlet Street

Policeman (uncredited)

Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture

Reiber

Broadway Melody of 1940

Policeman (uncredited)

Primrose Path

Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)

The Awful Truth

Motor Cop (uncredited)

Horse Feathers

Speakeasy Bartender (uncredited)

Edison, the Man

Policeman

Why Girls Love Sailors

Amorous Sailor

Don't Fence Me In

Chief of Police

Seven Doors to Death

Claude Burns

The Mark of the Whistler

Bank Guard (uncredited)

Wyoming

Capt. Evans

Buck Benny Rides Again

Police Officer

Love Is News

Motorcycle Officer

On the Front Page

Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)

Midnight Manhunt

Police Desk Sergeant (Uncredited)

Ridin' the Outlaw Trail

Pop Willard

The Doctor Takes a Wife

Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)

A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob

Policeman (uncredited)

No Time for Comedy

Sweeny (uncredited)

One Night in the Tropics

Cop with Black Eye (uncredited)

Knute Rockne All American

Doc - Knute's Friend at Kansas City Airport (uncredited)

Next Door Neighbors

Cop

Florian

Cop

Between Us Girls

Policeman (uncredited)

And One Was Beautiful

Higgins

Lucky Partners

Desk Sergeant (uncredited)

Listen, Darling

Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)

Wildcat Bus

Policeman Giving Ticket (uncredited)

Swing Time

(uncredited)

The Mighty

Doughboy

Silver Canyon

Colonel Middler

A Quiet Fourth

Raiders of Tomahawk Creek

Randolph Dike

That Girl from Paris

Ship's Purser (uncredited)

Little Orvie

Policeman

Apache Trail

Marshal (uncredited)

Caught in the Draft

Recruiting Sergeant

Remember the Day

Detective

Border Flight

Smugglers' Pilot

The Affairs of Martha

Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)

Dangerous Number

Policeman

Miss Annie Rooney

Policeman

My Favorite Spy

Police Sergeant in Bumped Car

Niagara Falls

State Trooper

Million Dollar Legs

Train Official (uncredited)

The First Hundred Years

Policeman giving ticket (uncredited)

Cleopatra

Convict

American Spoken Here

Mike Fink (uncredited)

All Business

House Detective

Down the Ribber

Big City

Tom Reilley

Don Winslow of the Coast Guard

C.P.O. Ben Cobb

The Bishop's Wife

Policeman

Bunker Bean

Policeman (uncredited)

The Rainmakers

Kelly

Back to Nature

Motorcycle Officer

Princess O'Rourke

Policeman at White House (uncredited)

Hard to Get

Eddie (uncredited)

Make Your Own Bed

Sergeant

She Couldn't Take It

Precint 5 Policeman

The Chaser

Policeman at End

Strange Affair

Motorcycle Officer (Uncredited)

The Golden Age of Comedy

archive footage

The Big Parade of Comedy

Bill in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)

We Who Are Young

1st Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)

Road to Utopia

Official Policeman (uncredited)

Sorrowful Jones

Police Lt. Ed Mitchell (uncredited)

If You Could Only Cook

Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)

Hunt the Man Down

Deputy in Hall (uncredited)

The Good Humor Man

Desk Sergeant (uncredited)

Hold That Ghost

Irondome (uncredited)

In Society

Policeman in Taxi Garage (uncredited)

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood

Al - First Studio Cop

Twelve Crowded Hours

Second Bartender (uncredited)

Nocturne

Policeman with Injured Susan (uncredited)

Her Lucky Night

Casey

Sailor's Lady

Chief Master-of-Arms

The Hard Way

Policeman at Hospital (Uncredited)

Married Before Breakfast

Police Sergeant

You Only Live Once

State Trooper Firing Machine Gun (uncredited)

Fancy Pants

Mr. Jones

Swing Shift Maisie

Radio Policeman (Uncredited)

Maisie Was a Lady

Motorcycle Policeman (Uncredited)

Up Goes Maisie

Motorcycle Cop (Uncredited)

Union Station

Detective (uncredited)

Man or Mouse

Hercules Jones

The Locked Door

Cop

The Farmer Takes a Wife

Railroad Man

Fair and Muddy

Motorcycle Cop

Lonesome

Cop (uncredited)

The Threat

Roadblock Police Sergeant (uncredited)

Thirty Day Princess

Tim - Policeman at Mrs. Schmidt's (uncredited)

Johnny Angel

Jim, a Cop (uncredited)

Laurel & Hardy: Year One

Laurel & Hardy: Year Two

Louisiana Purchase

House Detective (uncredited)

After the Thin Man

Bill (uncredited)

The Long, Long Trailer

Trailer Park Manager (uncredited)

Carson City

Daly - Railroad Conductor (uncredited)

The Jazz Age

Motor Cop

No Name on the Bullet

Charlie - Chess Player (uncredited)

The Twilight Zone

First Resurrected Man

The Tall Man

Thriller

The Police Sergeant

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

The Rifleman

Buffalo Bill Jr.

Public Defender

Sergeant Preston of the Yukon

Cavalcade of America

Fitz

I'm the Law

State Trooper

Hopalong Cassidy

Boston Blackie

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Lewis

The Abbott and Costello Show

Police Lt. Ryan

Trackdown

Doctor (uncredited)