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