Edgar Dearing
Acting • Born 1893-05-03 – Died 1974-08-17
Biography
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.
Filmography
202 credits
Estrellados
Movie • 1930
Studio Gate Guard (uncredited)
My Girl Tisa
Movie • 1948
Jailer (uncredited)
Rich Uncles
Movie • 1930
Swing Out, Sister
Movie • 1945
Motorcycle Cop
Pollyanna
Movie • 1960
Mr. Gorman
Go West
Movie • 1940
Bill - Train Engineer (uncredited)
Three Loves Has Nancy
Movie • 1938
Bus Conductor (uncredited)
Free and Easy
Movie • 1930
Officer
Rancho Notorious
Movie • 1952
Sheriff #4 (uncredited)
As You Were
Movie • 1951
Sgt. Monahan
Nick Carter, Master Detective
Movie • 1939
Harbor Patrol Sgt. Denny
The Midnight Patrol
Movie • 1933
Policeman (uncredited)
Call of the Cuckoo
Movie • 1927
Guest
The Iroquois Trail
Movie • 1950
Two Plus Fours
Movie • 1930
Rent Collector
Helldorado
Movie • 1935
Motorcycle Cop
A Gentleman After Dark
Movie • 1942
Joe
Rendezvous
Movie • 1935
1st Military Policeman (uncredited)
Full Confession
Movie • 1939
Lieutenant Thatcher (uncredited)
Ruby Gentry
Movie • 1952
My Brother Talks to Horses
Movie • 1947
Policeman (uncredited)
Maid's Night Out
Movie • 1938
Police Detective (uncredited)
They Gave Him a Gun
Movie • 1937
Sgt. Meadowlark
Eskimo
Movie • 1933
Constable Balk (uncredited)
The Nuisance
Movie • 1933
Policeman at Streetcar (uncredited)
When the Daltons Rode
Movie • 1940
Sheriff
Consolation Marriage
Movie • 1931
Mulligan - a Policeman (uncredited)
Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite
Movie • 1939
Jim Simmons
Flight
Movie • 1929
Football Coach
The Star Witness
Movie • 1931
Henchman Jim Sockett (uncredited)
The Lost Squadron
Movie • 1932
Policeman Wanting Report (uncredited)
Live and Learn
Movie • 1930
Mr. Smith
Traffic Tangle
Movie • 1930
Motor Cop
Fired Wife
Movie • 1943
Sullivan
You Can't Take It with You
Movie • 1938
Bill - Plainclothes Policeman (uncredited)
Honolulu
Movie • 1939
Jailer
Magic Town
Movie • 1947
Questioning Grandview Citizen (uncredited)
Limousine Love
Movie • 1928
Motorcycle cop
Where There's Life
Movie • 1947
Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
My Favorite Blonde
Movie • 1942
Joe - Policeman
And the Angels Sing
Movie • 1944
Man (uncredited)
The Jones Family in Hollywood
Movie • 1939
Studio Policeman (uncredited)
A Pair of Tights
Movie • 1929
Policeman (uncredited)
A Man from Wyoming
Movie • 1930
Sergeant
Cross-Country Romance
Movie • 1940
Ed Sweeney
Abraham Lincoln
Movie • 1930
Armstrong
The Painted Desert
Movie • 1931
Buck's Partner
Came the Dawn
Movie • 1928
Big Moving Man (uncredited)
Should Tall Men Marry?
Movie • 1928
Henchman
Border G-Man
Movie • 1938
Smoky Joslin
It Happened in Hollywood
Movie • 1937
Joe Stevens
Should Men Walk Home?
Movie • 1927
Pot o' Gold
Movie • 1941
Police Officer McGinty (uncredited)
Midnight Taxi
Movie • 1937
Officer Murray
Blondie
Movie • 1938
Policeman at Hotel (uncredited)
Love Is a Headache
Movie • 1938
Detective 'Pinch' Reardon (uncredited)
Hold That Kiss
Movie • 1938
Policeman
Clunked on the Corner
Movie • 1929
Cop
Four Girls in White
Movie • 1939
Motorcycle Cop Going to Accident
Stolen Harmony
Movie • 1935
Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
The Virginian
Movie • 1946
Spring Madness
Movie • 1938
Policeman
Out of the Storm
Movie • 1948
Ed Purcell
The Nitwits
Movie • 1935
Police Officer Barney Riley
Kentucky Kernels
Movie • 1934
Policeman (uncredited)
Manhattan Heartbeat
Movie • 1940
Policeman
King of the Underworld
Movie • 1939
Police Detective (uncredited)
King of the Underworld
Movie • 1939
First Policeman (uncredited)
Made for Each Other
Movie • 1939
Mounted Policeman (uncredited)
Blondie Meets the Boss
Movie • 1939
Officer McGuire (uncredited)
Rose of Washington Square
Movie • 1939
Lieutenant (uncredited)
It's a Wonderful World
Movie • 1939
Actor as 'Captain Flagg' (uncredited)
A Child is Born
Movie • 1939
Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Thunder Afloat
Movie • 1939
Petty Officer (uncredited)
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Movie • 1939
Motorcycle Officer Corrigan
Ocean Swells
Movie • 1934
Captain
Dust Be My Destiny
Movie • 1939
Second Railroad Cop (uncredited)
Pecos River
Movie • 1951
Henry Mahoney
Vice Squad
Movie • 1953
Fitz (uncredited)
Christmas Eve
Movie • 1947
Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Cha-Cha-Cha Boom!
Movie • 1956
Investor Charlie
It Came from Outer Space
Movie • 1953
Sam, a hobo (uncredited)
Hollywood Boulevard
Movie • 1936
Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
Glory Alley
Movie • 1952
Man at Gym (uncredited)
Scarlet Street
Movie • 1945
Policeman (uncredited)
Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
Movie • 1949
Reiber
Broadway Melody of 1940
Movie • 1940
Policeman (uncredited)
Primrose Path
Movie • 1940
Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
The Awful Truth
Movie • 1937
Motor Cop (uncredited)
Horse Feathers
Movie • 1932
Speakeasy Bartender (uncredited)
Edison, the Man
Movie • 1940
Policeman
Why Girls Love Sailors
Movie • 1927
Amorous Sailor
Don't Fence Me In
Movie • 1945
Chief of Police
Seven Doors to Death
Movie • 1944
Claude Burns
The Mark of the Whistler
Movie • 1944
Bank Guard (uncredited)
Wyoming
Movie • 1940
Capt. Evans
Buck Benny Rides Again
Movie • 1940
Police Officer
Love Is News
Movie • 1937
Motorcycle Officer
On the Front Page
Movie • 1926
Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
Midnight Manhunt
Movie • 1945
Police Desk Sergeant (Uncredited)
Ridin' the Outlaw Trail
Movie • 1951
Pop Willard
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Movie • 1941
Policeman (uncredited)
The Doctor Takes a Wife
Movie • 1940
Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
No Time for Comedy
Movie • 1940
Sweeny (uncredited)
One Night in the Tropics
Movie • 1940
Cop with Black Eye (uncredited)
Knute Rockne All American
Movie • 1940
Doc - Knute's Friend at Kansas City Airport (uncredited)
Next Door Neighbors
Movie • 1931
Cop
Florian
Movie • 1940
Cop
Between Us Girls
Movie • 1942
Policeman (uncredited)
And One Was Beautiful
Movie • 1940
Higgins
Lucky Partners
Movie • 1940
Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Listen, Darling
Movie • 1938
Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
Wildcat Bus
Movie • 1940
Policeman Giving Ticket (uncredited)
Swing Time
Movie • 1936
(uncredited)
The Mighty
Movie • 1929
Doughboy
Silver Canyon
Movie • 1951
Colonel Middler
A Quiet Fourth
Movie • 1935
Raiders of Tomahawk Creek
Movie • 1950
Randolph Dike
That Girl from Paris
Movie • 1936
Ship's Purser (uncredited)
Little Orvie
Movie • 1940
Policeman
Apache Trail
Movie • 1942
Marshal (uncredited)
Caught in the Draft
Movie • 1941
Recruiting Sergeant
Remember the Day
Movie • 1941
Detective
Border Flight
Movie • 1936
Smugglers' Pilot
The Affairs of Martha
Movie • 1942
Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
Dangerous Number
Movie • 1937
Policeman
Miss Annie Rooney
Movie • 1942
Policeman
My Favorite Spy
Movie • 1942
Police Sergeant in Bumped Car
Niagara Falls
Movie • 1941
State Trooper
Million Dollar Legs
Movie • 1932
Train Official (uncredited)
The First Hundred Years
Movie • 1938
Policeman giving ticket (uncredited)
Cleopatra
Movie • 1934
Convict
American Spoken Here
Movie • 1940
Mike Fink (uncredited)
All Business
Movie • 1936
House Detective
Down the Ribber
Movie • 1936
Big City
Movie • 1937
Tom Reilley
Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
Movie • 1943
C.P.O. Ben Cobb
The Bishop's Wife
Movie • 1947
Policeman
Bunker Bean
Movie • 1936
Policeman (uncredited)
The Rainmakers
Movie • 1935
Kelly
Back to Nature
Movie • 1936
Motorcycle Officer
Princess O'Rourke
Movie • 1943
Policeman at White House (uncredited)
Hard to Get
Movie • 1938
Eddie (uncredited)
Make Your Own Bed
Movie • 1944
Sergeant
She Couldn't Take It
Movie • 1935
Precint 5 Policeman
The Chaser
Movie • 1938
Policeman at End
Strange Affair
Movie • 1944
Motorcycle Officer (uncredited)
The Golden Age of Comedy
Movie • 1957
archive footage
The Big Parade of Comedy
Movie • 1964
Bill in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)
We Who Are Young
Movie • 1940
1st Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
Road to Utopia
Movie • 1946
Official Policeman (uncredited)
Sorrowful Jones
Movie • 1949
Police Lt. Ed Mitchell (uncredited)
If You Could Only Cook
Movie • 1935
Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
Hunt the Man Down
Movie • 1950
Deputy in Hall (uncredited)
The Good Humor Man
Movie • 1950
Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Hold That Ghost
Movie • 1941
Irondome (uncredited)
In Society
Movie • 1944
Policeman in Taxi Garage (uncredited)
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Movie • 1945
Al - First Studio Cop
Twelve Crowded Hours
Movie • 1939
Second Bartender (uncredited)
Nocturne
Movie • 1946
Policeman with Injured Susan (uncredited)
Her Lucky Night
Movie • 1945
Casey
Sailor's Lady
Movie • 1940
Chief Master-of-Arms
The Hard Way
Movie • 1943
Policeman at Hospital (Uncredited)
Married Before Breakfast
Movie • 1937
Police Sergeant
You Only Live Once
Movie • 1937
State Trooper Firing Machine Gun (uncredited)
Fancy Pants
Movie • 1950
Mr. Jones
Swing Shift Maisie
Movie • 1943
Radio Policeman (Uncredited)
Maisie Was a Lady
Movie • 1941
Motorcycle Policeman (Uncredited)
Up Goes Maisie
Movie • 1946
Motorcycle Cop (Uncredited)
Union Station
Movie • 1950
Detective (uncredited)
Man or Mouse
Movie • 1948
Hercules Jones
The Locked Door
Movie • 1929
Cop
The Farmer Takes a Wife
Movie • 1935
Railroad Man
Fair and Muddy
Movie • 1928
Motorcycle Cop
Lonesome
Movie • 1928
Cop (uncredited)
The Threat
Movie • 1949
Roadblock Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Thirty Day Princess
Movie • 1934
Tim - Policeman at Mrs. Schmidt's (uncredited)
Johnny Angel
Movie • 1945
Jim, a Cop (uncredited)
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
Movie • 2024
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Louisiana Purchase
Movie • 1941
House Detective (uncredited)
After the Thin Man
Movie • 1936
Bill (uncredited)
The Long, Long Trailer
Movie • 1954
Trailer Park Manager (uncredited)
Carson City
Movie • 1952
Daly - Railroad Conductor (uncredited)
The Jazz Age
Movie • 1929
Motor Cop
No Name on the Bullet
Movie • 1959
Charlie - Chess Player (uncredited)
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
First Resurrected Man
The Tall Man
TV • 1960
Thriller
TV • 1960
The Police Sergeant
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
The Rifleman
TV • 1958
Public Defender
TV • 1954
Buffalo Bill Jr.
TV • 1955
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
Fitz
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
TV • 1955
I'm the Law
TV • 1953
State Trooper
TV • 1956
Hopalong Cassidy
TV • 1952
Boston Blackie
TV • 1951
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Lewis
The Abbott and Costello Show
TV • 1952
Police Lt. Ryan
Trackdown
TV • 1957
Doctor (uncredited)
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Mr. Gorman