Edgar Dearing
Edgar Dearing was an American actor who became heavily type cast as a motorcycle cop in Hollywood films.
Biography
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.
Death
He died from lung cancer.
Selected filmography
Hot Water as Motorcycle Cop The Second Hundred Years as Police Officer Should Men Walk Home? as Motorcycle Cop Why Girls Love Sailors as Amorous Sailor Playin' Hookey as Herr Dun der BlitzenShould Tall Men Marry? as Henchman Finders Keepers as SergeantLonesome as Cop Two Tars as Motorcycle PolicemanThe Jazz Age as Motor CopBig Money as Detective Two Plus Fours as Rent CollectorConsolation Marriage as Policeman Mulligan Horse Feathers as Speakeasy Bartender The Midnight Patrol as Policeman Cleopatra as ConvictEskimo as Constable Balk The Rainmakers as KellySwing Time as Policeman China Passage as Bill Nancy Steele Is Missing! as Detective FlynnThey Gave Him a Gun as Sergeant MeadowlarkBig City as Tom ReilleyThe Awful Truth as Motor Cop When the Daltons Rode as SheriffCross-Country Romance as Ed Sweeney, Motorcycle CopA-Haunting We Will Go as Officer The Big Noise as Motor Policeman Scarlet Street as Policeman Her Lucky Night as CaseyDon't Fence Me In as Chief of PoliceThe Bishop's Wife as PolicemanThe Paleface as Sheriff Samson and Delilah as Tax Collector Fancy Pants as Mr. Jones Lightning Guns as Captain Dan SaundersPecos River as Henry MahoneyRidin' the Outlaw Trail as Pop WillardRancho Notorious as SheriffIt Came From Outer Space as Sam The Long, Long Trailer as Trailer Park Manager Ma and Pa Kettle at Home as Perkins The Long Wait as Foreman Her Twelve Men as Fire Chief Tarantula as Second Tramp Cha-Cha-Cha Boom! as Investor Charlie God Is My Partner as Mike Malone, Cop The Hired Gun as Sheriff Jenner Alfred Hitchcock Presents as LewisNo Name on the Bullet as Charlie the Chess Player Pollyanna as Mr. GormanAda as Politician