Edgar Dearing
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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.
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Films (186)
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
2024 · (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964 · Bill in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Pollyanna
1960 · Mr. Gorman
No Name on the Bullet
1959 · Charlie - Chess Player (uncredited)
The Golden Age of Comedy
1957 · archive footage
Cha-Cha-Cha Boom!
1956 · Investor Charlie
The Long, Long Trailer
1954 · Trailer Park Manager (uncredited)
Vice Squad
1953 · Fitz (uncredited)
It Came from Outer Space
1953 · Sam, a hobo (uncredited)
Ruby Gentry
1952
Carson City
1952 · Daly - Railroad Conductor (uncredited)
Glory Alley
1952 · Man at Gym (uncredited)
Rancho Notorious
1952 · Sheriff #4 (uncredited)
Pecos River
1951 · Henry Mahoney
As You Were
1951 · Sgt. Monahan
Silver Canyon
1951 · Colonel Middler
Ridin' the Outlaw Trail
1951 · Pop Willard
Hunt the Man Down
1950 · Deputy in Hall (uncredited)
Union Station
1950 · Detective (uncredited)
Raiders of Tomahawk Creek
1950 · Randolph Dike
Fancy Pants
1950 · Mr. Jones (uncredited)
The Iroquois Trail
1950 · Colonial Major (uncredited)
Riding High
1950 · Deputy (uncredited)
The Good Humor Man
1950 · Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
The Threat
1949 · Roadblock Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Sorrowful Jones
1949 · Police Lt. Ed Mitchell (uncredited)
Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
1949 · Reiber
Out of the Storm
1948 · Ed Purcell
My Girl Tisa
1948 · Jailer (uncredited)
Man or Mouse
1948 · Hercules Jones
The Bishop's Wife
1947 · Policeman
Where There's Life
1947 · Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Christmas Eve
1947 · Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Magic Town
1947 · Questioning Grandview Citizen (uncredited)
My Brother Talks to Horses
1947 · Policeman (uncredited)
Nocturne
1946 · Policeman with Injured Susan (uncredited)
The Virginian
1946
Road to Utopia
1946 · Official Policeman (uncredited)
Up Goes Maisie
1946 · Motorcycle Cop (Uncredited)
Scarlet Street
1945 · Policeman (uncredited)
Johnny Angel
1945 · Jim, a Cop (uncredited)
Don't Fence Me In
1945 · Chief of Police
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
1945 · Al - First Studio Cop
Midnight Manhunt
1945 · Police Desk Sergeant (Uncredited)
Swing Out, Sister
1945 · Motorcycle Cop
Her Lucky Night
1945 · Casey
Destiny
1944 · Fourth Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
The Mark of the Whistler
1944 · Bank Guard (uncredited)
Strange Affair
1944 · Motorcycle Officer (uncredited)
Seven Doors to Death
1944 · Claude Burns
In Society
1944 · Policeman in Taxi Garage (uncredited)
Make Your Own Bed
1944 · Sergeant
And the Angels Sing
1944 · Man (uncredited)
Princess O'Rourke
1943 · Policeman at White House (uncredited)
Swing Shift Maisie
1943 · Radio Policeman (Uncredited)
Fired Wife
1943 · Sullivan
Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
1943 · C.P.O. Ben Cobb
The Hard Way
1943 · Policeman at Hospital (Uncredited)
Between Us Girls
1942 · Policeman (uncredited)
Apache Trail
1942 · Marshal (uncredited)
The Affairs of Martha
1942 · Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
My Favorite Spy
1942 · Police Sergeant in Bumped Car
Miss Annie Rooney
1942 · Policeman
A Gentleman After Dark
1942 · Joe
My Favorite Blonde
1942 · Joe - Policeman
Louisiana Purchase
1941 · House Detective (uncredited)
Remember the Day
1941 · Detective
Niagara Falls
1941 · State Trooper
Hold That Ghost
1941 · Irondome (uncredited)
Caught in the Draft
1941 · Recruiting Sergeant
Pot o' Gold
1941 · Police Officer McGinty (uncredited)
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
1941 · Policeman (uncredited)
Maisie Was a Lady
1941 · Motorcycle Policeman (Uncredited)
Go West
1940 · Bill - Train Engineer (uncredited)
American Spoken Here
1940 · Mike Fink (uncredited)
One Night in the Tropics
1940 · Cop with Black Eye (uncredited)
Knute Rockne All American
1940 · Doc - Knute's Friend at Kansas City Airport (uncredited)
No Time for Comedy
1940 · Sweeny (uncredited)
Wyoming
1940 · Capt. Evans
When the Daltons Rode
1940 · Sheriff
Wildcat Bus
1940 · Policeman Giving Ticket (uncredited)
Lucky Partners
1940 · Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
We Who Are Young
1940 · 1st Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
Cross-Country Romance
1940 · Ed Sweeney
Manhattan Heartbeat
1940 · Policeman
Sailor's Lady
1940 · Chief Master-of-Arms
Florian
1940 · Cop
Buck Benny Rides Again
1940 · Police Officer
Edison, the Man
1940 · Policeman
The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940 · Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
And One Was Beautiful
1940 · Higgins
Primrose Path
1940 · Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
Little Orvie
1940 · Policeman
Broadway Melody of 1940
1940 · Policeman (uncredited)
Nick Carter, Master Detective
1939 · Harbor Patrol Sgt. Denny
A Child is Born
1939 · Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Dust Be My Destiny
1939 · Second Railroad Cop (uncredited)
Thunder Afloat
1939 · Petty Officer (uncredited)
Full Confession
1939 · Lieutenant Thatcher (uncredited)
Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite
1939 · Jim Simmons
The Jones Family in Hollywood
1939 · Studio Policeman (uncredited)
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
1939 · Motorcycle Officer Corrigan
It's a Wonderful World
1939 · Actor as 'Captain Flagg' (uncredited)
Rose of Washington Square
1939 · Lieutenant (uncredited)
Blondie Meets the Boss
1939 · Officer McGuire (uncredited)
Twelve Crowded Hours
1939 · Second Bartender (uncredited)
Made for Each Other
1939 · Mounted Policeman (uncredited)
Honolulu
1939 · Jailer
Four Girls in White
1939 · Motorcycle Cop Going to Accident
King of the Underworld
1939 · Police Detective (uncredited), First Policeman (uncredited)
Blondie
1938 · Policeman at Hotel (uncredited)
Spring Madness
1938 · Policeman
Hard to Get
1938 · Eddie (uncredited)
Listen, Darling
1938 · Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
Three Loves Has Nancy
1938 · Bus Conductor (uncredited)
You Can't Take It with You
1938 · Bill (uncredited)
The Chaser
1938 · Policeman at End
Border G-Man
1938 · Smoky Joslin
Hold That Kiss
1938 · Policeman
The First Hundred Years
1938 · Policeman giving ticket (uncredited)
Maid's Night Out
1938 · Police Detective (uncredited)
Love Is a Headache
1938 · Detective 'Pinch' Reardon (uncredited)
The Awful Truth
1937 · Motor Cop (uncredited)
It Happened in Hollywood
1937 · Joe Stevens
Big City
1937 · Tom Reilley
Married Before Breakfast
1937 · Police Sergeant
They Gave Him a Gun
1937 · Sgt. Meadowlark
Midnight Taxi
1937 · Officer Murray
Love Is News
1937 · Motorcycle Officer
You Only Live Once
1937 · State Trooper Firing Machine Gun (uncredited)
Dangerous Number
1937 · Policeman
That Girl from Paris
1936 · Ship's Purser (uncredited)
After the Thin Man
1936 · Bill (uncredited)
Swing Time
1936 · (uncredited)
Hollywood Boulevard
1936 · Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
Back to Nature
1936 · Motorcycle Officer
Bunker Bean
1936 · Policeman (uncredited)
Border Flight
1936 · Smugglers' Pilot
Down the Ribber
1936
All Business
1936 · House Detective
If You Could Only Cook
1935 · Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
Rendezvous
1935 · 1st Military Policeman (uncredited)
The Rainmakers
1935 · Kelly
She Couldn't Take It
1935 · Precint 5 Policeman
A Quiet Fourth
1935
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935 · Railroad Man
The Nitwits
1935 · Police Officer Barney Riley
Stolen Harmony
1935 · Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
Helldorado
1935 · Motorcycle Cop
Kentucky Kernels
1934 · Policeman (uncredited)
Cleopatra
1934 · Convict
Ocean Swells
1934 · Captain
Thirty Day Princess
1934 · Tim - Policeman at Mrs. Schmidt's (uncredited)
Eskimo
1933 · Constable Balk (uncredited)
The Midnight Patrol
1933 · Policeman (uncredited)
The Nuisance
1933 · Policeman at Streetcar (uncredited)
Horse Feathers
1932 · Speakeasy Bartender (uncredited)
Million Dollar Legs
1932 · Train Official (uncredited)
The Lost Squadron
1932 · Policeman Wanting Report (uncredited)
Consolation Marriage
1931 · Mulligan - a Policeman (uncredited)
The Star Witness
1931 · Henchman Jim Sockett (uncredited)
Next Door Neighbors
1931 · Cop
The Painted Desert
1931 · Buck's Partner
Abraham Lincoln
1930 · Armstrong
Traffic Tangle
1930 · Motor Cop
Two Plus Fours
1930 · Rent Collector
A Man from Wyoming
1930 · Sergeant
Estrellados
1930 · Studio Gate Guard (uncredited)
Live and Learn
1930 · Mr. Smith
Rich Uncles
1930
Free and Easy
1930 · Officer
The Mighty
1929 · Doughboy
The Locked Door
1929 · Cop
Flight
1929 · Football Coach
A Pair of Tights
1929 · Policeman (uncredited)
Clunked on the Corner
1929 · Cop
The Jazz Age
1929 · Motor Cop
Lonesome
1928 · Cop (uncredited)
Fair and Muddy
1928 · Motorcycle Cop
Limousine Love
1928 · Motorcycle cop
Came the Dawn
1928 · Big Moving Man (uncredited)
Should Tall Men Marry?
1928 · Henchman
Call of the Cuckoo
1927 · Guest
Why Girls Love Sailors
1927 · Amorous Sailor
Should Men Walk Home?
1927
On the Front Page
1926 · Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
Séries (18)
Outlaws
1960 · Barney
Thriller
1960 · The Police Sergeant
The Tall Man
1960
The Twilight Zone
1959 · First Resurrected Man
The Rifleman
1958
Trackdown
1957 · Doctor (uncredited)
State Trooper
1956
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Lewis
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
1955
Buffalo Bill Jr.
1955
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954 · Mr. Gorman
Public Defender
1954
I'm the Law
1953
The Abbott and Costello Show
1952 · Police Lt. Ryan
Cavalcade of America
1952 · Fitz
Hopalong Cassidy
1952
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Boston Blackie
1951 · Fire Chief