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