Max Bing (15 March 1885 – 7 February 1945) was a

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actor and director of radio plays.

Biography

Bing was born in

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. He received his first theatrical engagement in 1903 at the Ducal

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(''Herzogliches Hoftheater Meiningen'' or ''Meininger Theater''). After that he performed in, among other places,

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, Vienna,

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and Berlin. During his time in Vienna he appeared in the two early Austrian silent films ''

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'' and ''

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''. but afterwards appeared only occasionally in front of the camera in Germany. On 10 October 1917 he was awarded the ''

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''.Baden-Württemberg Landesarchiv: WW2
/ref> From 1927 he concentrated on his work as a director and narrator in the ''Funk-Stunde Berlin'' (Berlin Radio), where among other things he produced in 1930 ''Die Geschichte vom Franz Biberkopf'' with Heinrich George in the leading role. On 1 October 1942 Bing took on a new position as artistic director of the Tobis Film Company. He died on 7 February 1945 in Jauernig in the

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(now Javorník in the Czech Republic).

Filmography

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1885 births 1945 deaths Male actors from Dresden German male stage actors German male film actors German male silent film actors German radio producers 20th-century German male actors {{Germany-film-actor-stub