- Stage (from 1922) and screen actor, particularly at home in crime dramas, playing roles on either side of the law. Latterly in eccentric or comic character parts. Had a successful post-war career in East German Defa films, beginning with "Affaire Blum" (1948).
- Studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Academy of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1919. He remained an ensemble member of the Deutsches Theater from 1945 until his death in 1986.
- During World War I, he served as a lieutenant in a Dragoons cavalry regiment.
- His activities in movies dropped off during wartime.
- Gerhard Bienert continued his career in the GDR after the war.
- The theater offered him a huge spectrum of interesting roles and together with his brother Reinhold Bernt he founded the "Gruppe junger Schauspieler" which produced especially sociocritical plays.
- He took acting lessons at the acting school of the "Deutsches Theater Berlin" after the war. It followed first roles as an extra before he could gain a foothold at the Berliner theater world in 1922. Only one year later he already made his film debut with "Der Mensch am Wege" (1923), but this was a single excursion to this metier for the time being.
- Gerhard Bienert was married with the actress Inge Herbrecht.
- His highlights in the 30s were his appearances in "Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht" (1931), Fritz Lang's genius movie "M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder" (1931), "Berlin - Alexanderplatz" (1931), "Der Hauptmann von Köpenick" (31), "Yorck" (1931), "Das indische Grabmal" (1938) and "Mordsache Holm" (1938).
- His first talky still belongs to the absolute classics of the German film history. This movie was "Der blaue Engel" (1930) where he impersonated a policeman.
- In the 30's followed a rapid rise as a very busy support actor in many well-known productions.
- At the end of the 20's followed his breakthrough in the film business with the silent movies "Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück" (1929) and "Ludwig der Zweite, König von Bayern" (1929).
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