Edgar Dearing
Acting
Born May 3, 1893 · Ceres, California, USA
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.
Films (184)
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
2024
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
Pollyanna
1960
No Name on the Bullet
1959
The Golden Age of Comedy
1957
Cha-Cha-Cha Boom!
1956
The Long, Long Trailer
1954
Vice Squad
1953
It Came from Outer Space
1953
Ruby Gentry
1952
Carson City
1952
Glory Alley
1952
Rancho Notorious
1952
Pecos River
1951
As You Were
1951
Silver Canyon
1951
Ridin' the Outlaw Trail
1951
Hunt the Man Down
1950
Union Station
1950
Raiders of Tomahawk Creek
1950
Fancy Pants
1950
The Iroquois Trail
1950
The Good Humor Man
1950
The Threat
1949
Sorrowful Jones
1949
Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
1949
Out of the Storm
1948
My Girl Tisa
1948
Man or Mouse
1948
The Bishop's Wife
1947
Where There's Life
1947
Christmas Eve
1947
Magic Town
1947
My Brother Talks to Horses
1947
Nocturne
1946
The Virginian
1946
Road to Utopia
1946
Up Goes Maisie
1946
Scarlet Street
1945
Johnny Angel
1945
Don't Fence Me In
1945
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
1945
Midnight Manhunt
1945
Swing Out, Sister
1945
Her Lucky Night
1945
The Mark of the Whistler
1944
Strange Affair
1944
Seven Doors to Death
1944
In Society
1944
Make Your Own Bed
1944
And the Angels Sing
1944
Princess O'Rourke
1943
Swing Shift Maisie
1943
Fired Wife
1943
Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
1943
The Hard Way
1943
Between Us Girls
1942
Apache Trail
1942
The Affairs of Martha
1942
My Favorite Spy
1942
Miss Annie Rooney
1942
A Gentleman After Dark
1942
My Favorite Blonde
1942
Louisiana Purchase
1941
Remember the Day
1941
Niagara Falls
1941
Hold That Ghost
1941
Caught in the Draft
1941
Pot o' Gold
1941
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
1941
Maisie Was a Lady
1941
Go West
1940
American Spoken Here
1940
One Night in the Tropics
1940
Knute Rockne All American
1940
No Time for Comedy
1940
Wyoming
1940
When the Daltons Rode
1940
Wildcat Bus
1940
Lucky Partners
1940
We Who Are Young
1940
Cross-Country Romance
1940
Manhattan Heartbeat
1940
Sailor's Lady
1940
Florian
1940
Buck Benny Rides Again
1940
Edison, the Man
1940
The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940
And One Was Beautiful
1940
Primrose Path
1940
Little Orvie
1940
Broadway Melody of 1940
1940
Nick Carter, Master Detective
1939
A Child is Born
1939
Dust Be My Destiny
1939
Thunder Afloat
1939
Full Confession
1939
Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite
1939
The Jones Family in Hollywood
1939
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
1939
It's a Wonderful World
1939
Rose of Washington Square
1939
Blondie Meets the Boss
1939
Twelve Crowded Hours
1939
Made for Each Other
1939
Honolulu
1939
Four Girls in White
1939
King of the Underworld
1939
Blondie
1938
Spring Madness
1938
Hard to Get
1938
Listen, Darling
1938
Three Loves Has Nancy
1938
You Can't Take It with You
1938
The Chaser
1938
Border G-Man
1938
Hold That Kiss
1938
The First Hundred Years
1938
Maid's Night Out
1938
Love Is a Headache
1938
The Awful Truth
1937
It Happened in Hollywood
1937
Big City
1937
Married Before Breakfast
1937
They Gave Him a Gun
1937
Midnight Taxi
1937
Love Is News
1937
You Only Live Once
1937
Dangerous Number
1937
That Girl from Paris
1936
After the Thin Man
1936
Swing Time
1936
Hollywood Boulevard
1936
Back to Nature
1936
Bunker Bean
1936
Border Flight
1936
Down the Ribber
1936
All Business
1936
If You Could Only Cook
1935
Rendezvous
1935
The Rainmakers
1935
She Couldn't Take It
1935
A Quiet Fourth
1935
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935
The Nitwits
1935
Stolen Harmony
1935
Helldorado
1935
Kentucky Kernels
1934
Cleopatra
1934
Ocean Swells
1934
Thirty Day Princess
1934
Eskimo
1933
The Midnight Patrol
1933
The Nuisance
1933
Horse Feathers
1932
Million Dollar Legs
1932
The Lost Squadron
1932
Consolation Marriage
1931
The Star Witness
1931
Next Door Neighbors
1931
The Painted Desert
1931
Abraham Lincoln
1930
Traffic Tangle
1930
Two Plus Fours
1930
A Man from Wyoming
1930
Estrellados
1930
Live and Learn
1930
Rich Uncles
1930
Free and Easy
1930
The Mighty
1929
The Locked Door
1929
Flight
1929
A Pair of Tights
1929
Clunked on the Corner
1929
The Jazz Age
1929
Lonesome
1928
Fair and Muddy
1928
Limousine Love
1928
Came the Dawn
1928
Should Tall Men Marry?
1928
Call of the Cuckoo
1927
Why Girls Love Sailors
1927
Should Men Walk Home?
1927
On the Front Page
1926