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