Herman Bing
Herman Bing (born March 30, 1889 in Frankfurt am Main , † January 9, 1947 in Los Angeles , California ) was a German actor . As a comedian he appeared in Hollywood from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s in well over a hundred feature films.
Life
His father was the opera baritone Max Bing . For a long time he almost only appeared in circuses and variety shows and was a producer until he was taken to Hollywood in 1926 as part of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's delegation . He worked closely with Murnau, so Bing served him, among other things, as an interpreter and assistant director until he began making films more and more as an actor even after Murnau's death.
Due to his German accent with the typical "rolling R" he soon became a popular and well-known supporting actor who, comparable to Fritz Feld , was cast as a foreigner, especially in comedies. In the 1941 film Dumbo he was used as the ringmaster's spokesman. Soon afterwards, Bing's engagements dropped sharply, as his portrayals of weird and lovable Germans were no longer in demand in the context of World War II. He suffered from depression and committed suicide in 1947 with a gun suicide .
Filmography (selection)
- 1921: Ciska Barna, the gypsy
- 1931: Anna Christie
- 1931: People behind bars (Men Behind Bars)
- 1931: The Great Lover
- 1931: The Guardsman
- 1932: In Another Land (A Farewell to Arms)
- 1932: Murders in the Rue Morgue (Murders in the Rue Morgue)
- 1932: Ring free for love (Flesh)
- 1933: Dinner at Eight (Dinner at Eight)
- 1933: My lips do not lie ( My Lips Betray )
- 1933: Parade in the Spotlight (Footlight Parade)
- 1934: The Merry Widow (The Merry Widow)
- 1934: Hide-Out
- 1934: Mandalay
- 1934: Broadway Bill
- 1934: Napoleon on Broadway (Twentieth Century)
- 1934: The Black Cat (The Black Cat)
- 1935: 1,000 dollars a minute
- 1936: Rose-Marie
- 1936: Dangerous cargo (human cargo)
- 1936: That Girl from Paris
- 1936: The Great Ziegfeld (The Great Ziegfeld)
- 1937: Maienzeit (Maytime)
- 1937: Every Day's a Holiday
- 1938: Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (Bluebeard's Eighth Wife)
- 1938: Love for Four (Four's A Crowd)
- 1938: The Great Waltz (The Great Waltz)
- 1938: Three Men in Paradise (Paradise for Three)
- 1938: Sweethearts
- 1940: Bitter Sweet
- 1941: Dumbo (voice only)
- 1942: The Devil with Hitler
- 1945: I Was a Criminal
- 1946: I think of you day and night (Night and Day)
literature
- Kenneth Anger: Hollywood Babylon, Act II . Edition Rogner & Bernhard bei Zweiausendeins, Berlin 2011, pp. 217–218, ISBN 978-3-8077-1078-5 (contains “Act I” and “Act II”).
Web links
- Herman Bing in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Herman Bing in the database of Find a Grave (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bing, Herman |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 1947 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California |