German stage and screen supporting actor, who began with leading roles in films of the early 1930's. He also worked as an assistant director and wrote scripts for the popular Bavarian comedy duo Karl Valentin and Lisl Karlstadt.
Prior to acting, worked in banks and leather goods.
He began his career at the theater in Stuttgart, afterwards he went to Berlin where he founded the theater group "Gruppe junger Schauspieler" to which also belonged his brother, the actor Gerhard Bienert.
After the war he first worked on stage again, from 1947 followed roles in front of the camera again.