Herman Bing

Herman Bing
Born: Mar 30, 1889
Frankfurt, Germany
Career: 1929-1946
Countries: USA
Genre/Type: Comedy
Drama
Musical
Romance
Biography by Hal Erickson
Along with such immortals as Percy Helton, Franklin Pangborn and Grady Sutton, Herman Bing is a member of that Valhalla of film character actors. Educated in his native Germany for a musical career, Bing went into vaudeville at 16, and soon after found work as a circus clown. Entering films in the mid-1920s, Bing apprenticed under the great director F. W. Murnau. He accompanied Murnau to Hollywood in 1927, where he worked as a scripter and assistant director on the classic silent drama Sunrise. After several more years assisting the likes of John Ford and Frank Borzage, Bing established himself as a character actor. Nearly always cast as a comic waiter, excitable musician, apoplectic stage manager or self-important official, Bing became famous for his wild-eyed facial expressions and his thick, "R"-rolling Teutonic accent. When the sort of broad comedy for which Herman Bing was renowned became passe in the postwar era, work opportunities dried up; despondent over his fading career, Bing shot himself at the age of 57.

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Filmography

Movie/Film Released Rating Role Buy
Night and Day 1946 Actor [Starring]
Rendezvous 24 1946 Actor [Starring]
Where Do We Go from Here? 1945 Actor [Starring]
Passport to Heaven 1943 Actor [Starring]
The Devil with Hitler 1942 Actor [Starring]
Dumbo 1941 Voice [Starring]
Bitter Sweet 1940 Actor [Starring]
Broadway Melody of 1940 1940 Actor [Starring]
Public Deb No. 1 1940 Actor [Starring]
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife 1938 Actor [Starring]
Four's a Crowd 1938 Actor [Starring]
Paradise for Three 1938 Actor [Starring]
Sweethearts 1938 Actor [Starring]
The Great Waltz 1938 Actor [Starring]
Vacation from Love 1938 Actor [Starring]
Beg, Borrow or Steal 1937 Actor [Starring]
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Herman Bing (30 March 1889 – 9 January 1947) was a German 1930s-1940s character actor. Bing was born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany and died in Los Angeles, California.
Herman Bing was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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