Herb Williams (born Herbert Schussler Billerbeck; May 24, 1884 – October 1, 1936) was an American pianist, comic entertainer in vaudeville, and actor.
As an amateur performer he teamed up with singer Hilda Wolfus, and the pair performed as a comic duo, Williams and Wolfus, marrying in 1909.
They developed a vaudeville act that played on their physical differences (he was heavy and ungainly, she was thin), and performed various surreal and comedic acts such as him eating her earrings, producing beer or chickens from their trick piano which then fell to pieces, and so forth.
In addition, he appeared in the 1930 version of The Earl Carroll Vanities, and in the 1934 play The Farmer Takes a Wife.
[1][2] He died in Freeport, New York, in 1936, from pneumonia at the age of 52.