Hermann Vallentin
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 24, 1872
- Died
- Sep 18, 1945 (aged 73)
- Place of birth
- Berlin, Germany
- Credits
- 85
Hermann Vallentin (24 May 1872 – 18 September 1945) was a German actor born in Berlin. He was the son of a Jewish timber merchant and factory owner, Felix Vallentin. He was the older brother of actress Rosa Valetti. After training as an actor at the Royal Theatre in Berlin with Max Grube and Hans Oberländer, he received his first engagement at the Central-Theatre in Berlin in the 1895/96 season. In the next few years, appearances on various Berlin stages followed.
From 1914, Vallentin was also a film actor. He mostly embodied fatherly figures, patriarchs and directors, but also small-minded philistines. In the 1931 film version of Der Hauptmann von Köpenick, he played the uniform tailor Adolph Wormser.
The seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933, ended his film career abruptly. In 1933 Vallentin, emigrated to Czechoslovakia, where he appeared on German language stages in Ústí and Prague. In 1938 he left for Switzerland and worked at the Stadttheater Basel and the Schauspielhaus Zürich. In 1939 he emigrated to Mandatory Palestine and settled in Tel Aviv. Not being able to speak Hebrew, he retired from acting altogether. In Tel Aviv, he lectured, read poetry and was a sporadic anchorman for German-language news on the Palestine Broadcasting Service (PBS). He died in Tel Aviv in 1945, aged 73.
Known for
Filmography
Sprung in den Abgrund
1933Movie
Generaldirektor Schenk
The Tempest
1932Movie
The Captain from Köpenick
1931Movie
Adolph Wormser
Help! Raid!
1931Movie
Kriminalrat Kipping
Him or Me
1930Movie
Kriminalkommissar
The Stolen Face
1930Movie
Wirt
Two Worlds
1930Movie
Uhrmacher Simon Goldschneider
Bookkeeper Kremke
1930Movie
Kremke
Only You
1930Movie
Richard Geldern
Cyanide
1930Movie
Kommissar
The Case of Helena Willfuer
1930Movie
Sein Vater
Die seltsame Vergangenheit der Thea Carter
1929Movie
Atlantic
1929Movie
Dr. Holtz
Woman in the Moon
1929Movie
Asphalt
1929Movie
Lotte
1928Movie
Burgkastellan Süßkind
Die letzte Galavorstellung des Zirkus Wolfson
1928Movie
Die Sache mit Schorrsiegel
1928Movie
Isaak
Spies
1928Movie
(uncredited)
Luther
1928Movie
Professor Karlstadt
Ledige Mütter
1928Movie
The Story of a Little Parisian
1928Movie
Gavard's Father
The Dangerous Age
1927Movie
Fischer Jensen
Das Erwachen des Weibes
1927Movie
Vater Ponath
The Trial of Donald Westhof
1927Movie
Der Sohn der Hagar
1927Movie
Steinert
Die glühende Gasse
1927Movie
Die 3 Niemandskinder
1927Movie
Kastellan
Madame Wants No Children
1926Movie
The Flight in the Night
1926Movie
Irrenarzt, Prof. Genoni
Adventure Mad
1926Movie
Lakington
Qualen der Nacht
1926Movie
The Fallen
1926Movie
Ein Raffke
Des Lebens Würfelspiel
1925Movie
Kommerzienrat Reichenberg
In the Name of the Kaisers
1925Movie
The Last Laugh
1924Movie
Potbellied Guest
Königsliebchen
1924Movie
La vierge du portail
1924Movie
The Finances of the Grand Duke
1924Movie
Herr Bekker
The Heart of Lilian Thorland
1924Movie
The House by the Sea
1924Movie
The Ancient Law
1923Movie
Heinrich Laube
The Countess of Paris
1923Movie
Polizeikommissar
The Love of a Queen
1923Movie
The Buddenbrooks
1923Movie
Smith
Wüstenrausch
1923Movie
Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend
1923Movie
Herzog Karl Eugen von Württemberg
Explosion
1923Movie
Marie's Father
Das Geheimnis des Renngrafen
1923Movie
Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin
1922Movie
Mirabeau
She and the Three
1922Movie
Räuberhauptmann Krause
Hannele's Ascension
1922Movie
Mattern
Ihr schlechter Ruf
1922Movie
Die Dame und der Landstreicher
1922Movie
The Queen of Whitechapel
1922Movie
Bertot
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
1921Movie
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
1921Movie
Das zweite Leben
1921Movie
The Black Panther
1921Movie
Antonius, a poet
Destiny
1921Movie
(uncredited)
The Rats
1921Movie
Harro Hassenreuter
Der zeugende Tod
1921Movie
Tessling
The Haunted Castle
1921Movie
Landgerichtsrat a.D.
Planetenschieber
1921Movie
Judith Trachtenberg
1920Movie
Hearts Are Trumps
1920Movie
Sebaldus Dühringer
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
1920Movie
Cardillac
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
1920Movie
The Abyss of Souls
1920Movie
Die goldene Krone
1920Movie
Gustav Lindlieb
Die drei Tänze der Mary Wilford
1920Movie
Die gelbe Fratze
1919Movie
Kittys Father
Hölle der Jungfrauen
1919Movie
Das Gift im Weibe
1919Movie
Die Gespenster von Garden Hall
1919Movie
Das Frühlingslied
1918Movie
The Nun and the Harlequin
1918Movie
Am anderen Ufer
1918Movie
Dymischow
Börse und Adel
1917Movie
Graf Hochfeld oder Bankier Bath
John Riew
1917Movie
Das lebende Rätsel
1916Movie
Die Last
1916Movie
Gutspächter
The Tunnel
1915Movie
Mr. Lloyd
The Sun's Revenge
1915Movie
Mörder
Der geheimnisvolle Wanderer
1915Movie