Herbert appears to have commenced his early career with Ben Greet's Company, and with
Sir Frank Benson; for some years he managed Benson's No.2 Company on tour, as well as playing leading parts. On 22 April 1911, he directed
Basil Rathbone in his first appearance on stage at the Theatre Royal,
Ipswich, as Hortensio in
The Taming of the Shrew. In 1912 he went to the
U.S. and appeared at the
Lyceum Theatre (New York) on 9 September as Captain Jeyes in ''The 'Mind-the-Paint' Girl'', and from March to May 1916 he appeared (with
Sir Herbert Tree) at the
New Amsterdam Theatre, New York, as Griffith and the Jester in
Shakespeare's King Henry VIII, Tubal in
The Merchant of Venice, and Dr. Caius in
The Merry Wives of Windsor. He took up residence at 16
Gramercy Park, New York City, and became solely engaged on the American stage thereafter both as an actor and a producer, with an impressive career. Herbert is likely to have also worked in film, credited as Henry Hebert. ==Partial filmography==