Herman Bing

Herman Bing

  • Highest Rated: 100% Maytime (1937)
  • Lowest Rated: 38% Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
  • Birthday: Mar 30, 1889
  • Birthplace: Not Available

  • 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.

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Movies

Rating

Title

Credit

Box
Office

Year

No Score Yet Night and Day `Peaches' — 1946
No Score Yet Where Do We Go from Here? Hessian Colonel — 1945
98% Dumbo Ringmaster — 1941
No Score Yet Broadway Melody of 1940 Silhouettist — 1940
No Score Yet Bitter Sweet Market Keeper — 1940
No Score Yet Four's a Crowd Barber — 1938
38% Bluebeard's Eighth Wife Monsieur Pepinard — 1938
No Score Yet The Great Waltz Dommayer — 1938
No Score Yet Sweethearts Oscar Engel — 1938
No Score Yet Beg, Borrow or Steal Von Giersdorff — 1937
100% Maytime August Archipenko — 1937
No Score Yet Every Day's a Holiday Fritz Krausmeyer — 1937
No Score Yet Champagne Waltz Max Snellinek — 1937
No Score Yet That Girl from Paris Hammacher — 1936
No Score Yet Dimples Proprietor — 1936
No Score Yet Adventure in Manhattan (Manhattan Madness) Tim — 1936
83% Rose Marie Mr. Danielle — 1936
62% The Great Ziegfeld Customer — 1936
No Score Yet The King Steps Out Pretzelberger — 1936
No Score Yet The Music Goes 'Round Singer — 1936
No Score Yet Tango Mr. Kluckmeyer — 1936
No Score Yet Fighting Youth Luigi — 1935
92% Barbary Coast Fish Peddler — 1935
No Score Yet Redheads on Parade Lionel Kunkel — 1935
No Score Yet Call of the Wild Sam — 1935
No Score Yet In Caliente Mexican Florist — 1935
No Score Yet The Night Is Young Nepomuk — 1935
No Score Yet Calm Yourself Bromberg — 1935
No Score Yet Three Kids and a Queen Walter — 1935
No Score Yet Vagabond Lady Department Head — 1935
100% Broadway Bill Waiter — 1934
No Score Yet Evelyn Prentice Klein, the Antique Dealer — 1934
80% The Merry Widow Zizipoff — 1934
No Score Yet Crimson Romance Himmelbaum — 1934
71% One Night of Love Vegetable Man — 1934
No Score Yet Hideout Jack Lillie — 1934
No Score Yet The Cat's Paw Gangster — 1934
88% Twentieth Century Bearded Man — 1934
80% Manhattan Melodrama German Proprietor — 1934
No Score Yet Manhattan Love Song Gustave — 1934
No Score Yet Mandalay Prof. Kleinschmidt — 1934
88% The Black Cat Car Steward — 1934
No Score Yet The Mighty Barnum Man with Frog — 1934
No Score Yet College Coach (Football Coach ) Prof. Glantz — 1933
No Score Yet Chance at Heaven Chauffeur — 1933
No Score Yet After Tonight Railroad Ticket Clerk — 1933
100% Footlight Parade Fralick, the music director — 1933
95% Dinner at Eight The Waiter — 1933
No Score Yet The Nuisance Willy — 1933
No Score Yet The Great Jasper Actor — 1933
No Score Yet The Bowery Mr. Rummel — 1933
No Score Yet Lady Killer Western director — 1933
93% A Farewell to Arms Actor — 1932
No Score Yet Flesh Pepi — 1932
No Score Yet Three on a Match Prof. Irving Finklestein — 1932
No Score Yet Jewel Robbery Alpine Tourist — 1932
83% Murders in the Rue Morgue Franz Odenheimer — 1932
No Score Yet Blessed Event Emil — 1932
No Score Yet Silver Dollar Actor — 1932
No Score Yet The Guardsman a Creditor — 1931
No Score Yet Women Love Once Actor — 1931
No Score Yet Show Girl in Hollywood Bing — 1930

QUOTES FROM Herman Bing CHARACTERS

Ringmaster
And now comes the climax!
Clown
Uh boss. What is the climax?
Ringmaster
I don't know.