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.
201 acting credits
Acting · 201
The Rifleman
1958
The Twilight Zone
1959
Thriller
1960
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Trackdown
1957
Cavalcade of America
1952
The Tall Man
1960
The Abbott and Costello Show
1952
State Trooper
1956
Public Defender
1954
Boston Blackie
1951
Hopalong Cassidy
1952
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
1955
Buffalo Bill Jr.
1955
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
I'm the Law
1953
You Can't Take It with You
1938
Scarlet Street
1945
The Awful Truth
1937
The Bishop's Wife
1947
It Came from Outer Space
1953
Pollyanna
1960
Swing Time
1936
Rancho Notorious
1952
After the Thin Man
1936
Eskimo
1933
Cleopatra
1934
Ruby Gentry
1952
Abraham Lincoln
1930
Vice Squad
1953
Dust Be My Destiny
1939
Hollywood Boulevard
1936
Pot o' Gold
1941
When the Daltons Rode
1940
It's a Wonderful World
1939
Road to Utopia
1946
You Only Live Once
1937
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
1945
Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
1943
Made for Each Other
1939
Primrose Path
1940
Hunt the Man Down
1950
Listen, Darling
1938
Edison, the Man
1940
Magic Town
1947
Four Girls in White
1939
Broadway Melody of 1940
1940
Carson City
1952
The Virginian
1946
One Night in the Tropics
1940
The Iroquois Trail
1950
The Long, Long Trailer
1954
Blondie
1938
Love Is News
1937
Hold That Ghost
1941
Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite
1939
King of the Underworld
1939
Horse Feathers
1932
My Favorite Spy
1942
Nocturne
1946
In Society
1944
Go West
1940
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
The First Hundred Years
1938
No Name on the Bullet
1959
Bunker Bean
1936
Hold That Kiss
1938
Three Loves Has Nancy
1938
Christmas Eve
1947
The Hard Way
1943
The Star Witness
1931
American Spoken Here
1940
Union Station
1950
Sailor's Lady
1940
Princess O'Rourke
1943
Lonesome
1928
Full Confession
1939
And the Angels Sing
1944
The Midnight Patrol
1933
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
1941
Estrellados
1930
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
1939
Sorrowful Jones
1949
Fancy Pants
1950
Miss Annie Rooney
1942
Rendezvous
1935
My Girl Tisa
1948
If You Could Only Cook
1935
She Couldn't Take It
1935
No Time for Comedy
1940
The Nuisance
1933
The Painted Desert
1931
Midnight Taxi
1937
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935
Million Dollar Legs
1932
The Golden Age of Comedy
1957
Remember the Day
1941
That Girl from Paris
1936
Strange Affair
1944
Where There's Life
1947
Out of the Storm
1948
The Mighty
1929
The Lost Squadron
1932
Blondie Meets the Boss
1939
Honolulu
1939
Manhattan Heartbeat
1940
Up Goes Maisie
1946
Nick Carter, Master Detective
1939
Kentucky Kernels
1934
Johnny Angel
1945
The Rainmakers
1935
A Man from Wyoming
1930
Helldorado
1935
The Good Humor Man
1950
Border G-Man
1938
The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940
My Brother Talks to Horses
1947
Spring Madness
1938
Thunder Afloat
1939
Back to Nature
1936
Wildcat Bus
1940
Fired Wife
1943
Knute Rockne All American
1940
My Favorite Blonde
1942
We Who Are Young
1940
Don't Fence Me In
1945
Stolen Harmony
1935
Rose of Washington Square
1939
Louisiana Purchase
1941
Florian
1940
Caught in the Draft
1941
Why Girls Love Sailors
1927
Big City
1937
Free and Easy
1930
Buck Benny Rides Again
1940
Swing Out, Sister
1945
On the Front Page
1926
Love Is a Headache
1938
A Gentleman After Dark
1942
Maisie Was a Lady
1941
The Nitwits
1935
Lucky Partners
1940
The Locked Door
1929
The Threat
1949
Thirty Day Princess
1934
The Mark of the Whistler
1944
Silver Canyon
1951
The Affairs of Martha
1942
The Chaser
1938
Dangerous Number
1937
Consolation Marriage
1931
Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
1949
Cha-Cha-Cha Boom!
1956
As You Were
1951
Glory Alley
1952
Border Flight
1936
And One Was Beautiful
1940
Her Lucky Night
1945
Midnight Manhunt
1945
Cross-Country Romance
1940
Flight
1929
Between Us Girls
1942
The Jones Family in Hollywood
1939
They Gave Him a Gun
1937
Maid's Night Out
1938
A Child is Born
1939
Apache Trail
1942
Married Before Breakfast
1937
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
2024
Seven Doors to Death
1944
Ocean Swells
1934
Niagara Falls
1941
Should Tall Men Marry?
1928
Came the Dawn
1928
Swing Shift Maisie
1943
Wyoming
1940
Make Your Own Bed
1944
Hard to Get
1938
It Happened in Hollywood
1937
Limousine Love
1928
Raiders of Tomahawk Creek
1950
Little Orvie
1940
Twelve Crowded Hours
1939
Two Plus Fours
1930
A Pair of Tights
1929
The Jazz Age
1929
Pecos River
1951
Fair and Muddy
1928
Should Men Walk Home?
1927
All Business
1936
Call of the Cuckoo
1927
Next Door Neighbors
1931
Down the Ribber
1936
A Quiet Fourth
1935
Clunked on the Corner
1929
Live and Learn
1930
Ridin' the Outlaw Trail
1951
Traffic Tangle
1930
Man or Mouse
1948
Rich Uncles
1930