Birthday
1893/05/03
Day of death
1974/08/17 (81 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Ceres, California, USA
Also know as
Edgar Deering, Edgard Dearing, Ed Dearing, Ed Deering
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...Read more
(1930) Estrellados
as Studio Gate Guard (uncredited)
(1948) My Girl Tisa
as Jailer (uncredited)
(1930) Rich Uncles
as ---
(1945) Swing Out, Sister
as Motorcycle Cop
(1960) Pollyanna
as Mr. Gorman
(1940) Go West
as Bill - Train Engineer (uncredited)
(1938) Three Loves Has Nancy
as Bus Conductor (uncredited)
(1930) Free and Easy
as Officer
(1952) Rancho Notorious
as Sheriff #4 (uncredited)
(1951) As You Were
as Sgt. Monahan
(1939) Nick Carter, Master Detective
as Harbor Patrol Sgt. Denny
(1933) The Midnight Patrol
as Policeman (uncredited)
(1927) Call of the Cuckoo
as Guest
(1950) The Iroquois Trail
as ---
(1930) Two Plus Fours
as Rent Collector
(1935) Helldorado
as Motorcycle Cop
(1942) A Gentleman After Dark
as Joe
(1935) Rendezvous
as 1st Military Policeman (uncredited)
(1939) Full Confession
as Lieutenant Thatcher (uncredited)
(1952) Ruby Gentry
as ---
(1947) My Brother Talks to Horses
as Policeman (uncredited)
(1938) Maid's Night Out
as Police Detective (uncredited)
(1937) They Gave Him a Gun
as Sgt. Meadowlark
(1933) Eskimo
as Constable Balk (uncredited)
(1933) The Nuisance
as Policeman at Streetcar (uncredited)
(1940) When the Daltons Rode
as Sheriff
(1931) Consolation Marriage
as Mulligan - a Policeman (uncredited)
(1939) Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
as Jim Simmons
(1929) Flight
as Football Coach
(1931) The Star Witness
as Henchman Jim Sockett (uncredited)
(1932) The Lost Squadron
as Policeman Wanting Report (uncredited)
(1930) Live and Learn
as Mr. Smith
(1930) Traffic Tangle
as Motor Cop
(1943) Fired Wife
as Sullivan
(1938) You Can't Take It with You
as Bill - Plainclothes Policeman (uncredited)
(1939) Honolulu
as Jailer
(1947) Magic Town
as Questioning Grandview Citizen (uncredited)
(1928) Limousine Love
as Motorcycle cop
(1947) Where There's Life
as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
(1942) My Favorite Blonde
as Joe - Policeman
(1944) And the Angels Sing
as Man (uncredited)
(1939) The Jones Family in Hollywood
as Studio Policeman (uncredited)
(1929) A Pair of Tights
as Policeman
(1930) A Man from Wyoming
as Sergeant
(1940) Cross-Country Romance
as Ed Sweeney
(1930) Abraham Lincoln
as Armstrong
(1931) The Painted Desert
as Buck's Partner
(1928) Came the Dawn
as Big Moving Man (uncredited)
(1928) Should Tall Men Marry?
as Henchman
(1938) Border G-Man
as Smoky Joslin
(1937) It Happened in Hollywood
as Joe Stevens
(1927) Should Men Walk Home?
as ---
(1941) Pot o' Gold
as Police Officer McGinty (uncredited)
(1937) Midnight Taxi
as Officer Murray
(1938) Blondie
as Policeman at Hotel (uncredited)
(1938) Love Is a Headache
as Detective 'Pinch' Reardon (uncredited)
(1938) Hold That Kiss
as Policeman
(1929) Clunked on the Corner
as Cop
(1939) Four Girls in White
as Motorcycle Cop Going to Accident
(1935) Stolen Harmony
as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
(1946) The Virginian
as ---
(1938) Spring Madness
as Policeman
(1948) Out of the Storm
as Ed Purcell
(1935) The Nitwits
as Police Officer Barney Riley
(1934) Kentucky Kernels
as Policeman
(1940) Manhattan Heartbeat
as Policeman
(1939) King of the Underworld
as Police Detective (uncredited)
(1939) King of the Underworld
as First Policeman (uncredited)
(1939) Made for Each Other
as Mounted Policeman (uncredited)
(1939) Blondie Meets the Boss
as Officer McGuire (uncredited)
(1939) Rose of Washington Square
as Lieutenant (uncredited)
(1939) It's a Wonderful World
as Actor as 'Captain Flagg' (uncredited)
(1939) A Child Is Born
as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
(1939) Thunder Afloat
as Petty Officer (uncredited)
(1939) The Gracie Allen Murder Case
as Motorcycle Officer Corrigan
(1934) Ocean Swells
as Captain
(1939) Dust Be My Destiny
as Second Railroad Cop (uncredited)
(1951) Pecos River
as Henry Mahoney
(1953) Vice Squad
as Fitz (uncredited)
(1947) Christmas Eve
as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
(1956) Cha-Cha-Cha Boom!
as Investor Charlie
(1953) It Came from Outer Space
as Sam, a hobo (uncredited)
(1936) Hollywood Boulevard
as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
(1952) Glory Alley
as Man at Gym (uncredited)
(1945) Scarlet Street
as Policeman (uncredited)
(1949) Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
as Reiber
(1940) Broadway Melody of 1940
as Policeman (uncredited)
(1940) Primrose Path
as Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
(1937) The Awful Truth
as Motor Cop (uncredited)
(1932) Horse Feathers
as Speakeasy Bartender (uncredited)
(1940) Edison, the Man
as Policeman
(1927) Why Girls Love Sailors
as Amorous Sailor
(1945) Don't Fence Me In
as Chief of Police
(1944) Seven Doors to Death
as Claude Burns
(1944) The Mark of the Whistler
as Bank Guard (uncredited)
(1940) Wyoming
as Capt. Evans
(1940) Buck Benny Rides Again
as Police Officer
(1937) Love Is News
as Motorcycle Officer
(1926) On the Front Page
as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
(1945) Midnight Manhunt
as Police Desk Sergeant (Uncredited)
(1951) Ridin' the Outlaw Trail
as Pop Willard
(1941) A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
as Policeman (uncredited)
(1940) The Doctor Takes a Wife
as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
(1940) No Time for Comedy
as Sweeny (uncredited)
(1940) One Night in the Tropics
as Cop with Black Eye (uncredited)
(1940) Knute Rockne All American
as Doc - Knute's Friend at Kansas City Airport (uncredited)
(1931) Next Door Neighbors
as Cop
(1940) Florian
as Cop
(1942) Between Us Girls
as Policeman (uncredited)
(1940) And One Was Beautiful
as Higgins
(1940) Lucky Partners
as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
(1938) Listen, Darling
as Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
(1940) Wildcat Bus
as Policeman Giving Ticket (uncredited)
(1936) Swing Time
as ---
(1929) The Mighty
as Doughboy
(1951) Silver Canyon
as Colonel Middler
(1935) A Quiet Fourth
as ---
(1950) Raiders of Tomahawk Creek
as Randolph Dike
(1936) That Girl from Paris
as Ship's Purser (uncredited)
(1940) Little Orvie
as Policeman
(1942) Apache Trail
as Marshal (uncredited)
(1941) Caught in the Draft
as Recruiting Sergeant
(1941) Remember the Day
as Detective
(1936) Border Flight
as Smugglers' Pilot
(1942) The Affairs of Martha
as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
(1937) Dangerous Number
as Policeman
(1942) Miss Annie Rooney
as Policeman
(1942) My Favorite Spy
as Police Sergeant in Bumped Car
(1941) Niagara Falls
as State Trooper
(1932) Million Dollar Legs
as Train Official (uncredited)
(1938) The First Hundred Years
as Policeman giving ticket (uncredited)
(1934) Cleopatra
as Convict
(1940) American Spoken Here
as Mike Fink (uncredited)
(1936) All Business
as House Detective
(1936) Down the Ribber
as ---
(1937) Big City
as Tom Reilley
(1943) Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
as C.P.O. Ben Cobb
(1947) The Bishop's Wife
as Policeman
(1936) Bunker Bean
as Policeman (uncredited)
(1935) The Rainmakers
as Kelly
(1936) Back to Nature
as Motorcycle Officer
(1943) Princess O'Rourke
as Policeman at White House (uncredited)
(1938) Hard to Get
as Eddie (uncredited)
(1944) Make Your Own Bed
as Sergeant
(1935) She Couldn't Take It
as Precint 5 Policeman
(1938) The Chaser
as Policeman at End
(1944) Strange Affair
as Motorcycle Officer (Uncredited)
(1957) The Golden Age of Comedy
as archive footage
(1964) The Big Parade of Comedy
as Bill in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1940) We Who Are Young
as 1st Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
(1946) Road to Utopia
as Official Policeman (uncredited)
(1949) Sorrowful Jones
as Police Lt. Ed Mitchell (uncredited)
(1935) If You Could Only Cook
as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
(1950) Hunt the Man Down
as Deputy in Hall (uncredited)
(1950) The Good Humor Man
as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
(1941) Hold That Ghost
as Irondome (uncredited)
(1944) In Society
as Policeman in Taxi Garage (uncredited)
(1945) Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
as Al - First Studio Cop
(1939) Twelve Crowded Hours
as Second Bartender (uncredited)
(1946) Nocturne
as Policeman with Injured Susan
(1945) Her Lucky Night
as Casey
(1940) Sailor's Lady
as Chief Master-of-Arms
(1943) The Hard Way
as Policeman at Hospital (Uncredited)
(1937) Married Before Breakfast
as Police Sergeant
(1937) You Only Live Once
as State Trooper Firing Machine Gun (uncredited)
(1950) Fancy Pants
as Mr. Jones
(1943) Swing Shift Maisie
as Radio Policeman (Uncredited)
(1941) Maisie Was a Lady
as Motorcycle Policeman (Uncredited)
(1946) Up Goes Maisie
as Motorcycle Cop (Uncredited)
(1950) Union Station
as Detective (uncredited)
(1948) Man or Mouse
as Hercules Jones
(1929) The Locked Door
as Cop
(1935) The Farmer Takes a Wife
as Railroad Man
(1959) The Twilight Zone
as First Resurrected Man
(1960) The Tall Man
as ---
(1960) Thriller
as The Police Sergeant
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as ---
(1958) The Rifleman
as ---
(1955) Buffalo Bill Jr.
as ---
(1954) Public Defender
as ---
(1955) Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
as ---
(1952) Cavalcade of America
as Fitz
(1953) I'm the Law
as ---
(1956) State Trooper
as ---
(1952) Hopalong Cassidy
as ---
(1951) The Adventures of Boston Blackie
as ---
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Lewis