
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