Hermann Vallentin
Acting • Born 1872-05-24 – Died 1945-09-18
Biography
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.
Filmography
83 credits
The Last Laugh
Movie • 1924
Potbellied Guest
The Haunted Castle
Movie • 1921
Landgerichtsrat a.D.
Die seltsame Vergangenheit der Thea Carter
Movie • 1929
The Stolen Face
Movie • 1930
Wirt
Die letzte Galavorstellung des Zirkus Wolfson
Movie • 1928
The Finances of the Grand Duke
Movie • 1924
Herr Bekker
The Story of a Little Parisian
Movie • 1928
Gavard's Father
The Case of Helena Willfuer
Movie • 1930
Sein Vater
The Sun's Revenge
Movie • 1915
Mörder
The Flight in the Night
Movie • 1926
Irrenarzt, Prof. Genoni
Only You
Movie • 1930
Richard Geldern
The Dangerous Age
Movie • 1927
Fischer Jensen
Das Frühlingslied
Movie • 1918
John Riew
Movie • 1917
The Ancient Law
Movie • 1923
Heinrich Laube
The Captain from Köpenick
Movie • 1931
Adolph Wormser
Sprung in den Abgrund
Movie • 1933
Generaldirektor Schenk
Das Gift im Weibe
Movie • 1919
Die glühende Gasse
Movie • 1927
Hölle der Jungfrauen
Movie • 1919
Börse und Adel
Movie • 1917
Graf Hochfeld oder Bankier Bath
Asphalt
Movie • 1929
Destiny
Movie • 1921
(uncredited)
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
Movie • 1920
Des Lebens Würfelspiel
Movie • 1925
Kommerzienrat Reichenberg
Die drei Tänze der Mary Wilford
Movie • 1920
The Abyss of Souls
Movie • 1920
Am anderen Ufer
Movie • 1918
Dymischow
Bookkeeper Kremke
Movie • 1930
Kremke
The Buddenbrooks
Movie • 1923
Smith
Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend
Movie • 1923
Herzog Karl Eugen von Württemberg
Luther
Movie • 1928
Professor Karlstadt
Two Worlds
Movie • 1930
Uhrmacher Simon Goldschneider
She and the Three
Movie • 1922
Räuberhauptmann Krause
Hearts Are Trumps
Movie • 1920
Sebaldus Dühringer
Der zeugende Tod
Movie • 1921
Tessling
Das Erwachen des Weibes
Movie • 1927
Vater Ponath
Him or Me
Movie • 1930
Kriminalkommissar
Das Herz der Lilian Thorland
Movie • 1924
The Fallen
Movie • 1926
Ein Raffke
Königsliebchen
Movie • 1924
Das Geheimnis des Renngrafen
Movie • 1923
Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin
Movie • 1922
Mirabeau
Die Königin von Whitechapel
Movie • 1922
Bertot
Planetenschieber
Movie • 1921
Die 3 Niemandskinder
Movie • 1927
Kastellan
Ledige Mütter
Movie • 1928
Die Sache mit Schorrsiegel
Movie • 1928
Isaak
Die Dame und der Landstreicher
Movie • 1922
Hannele's Ascension
Movie • 1922
Mattern
Das zweite Leben
Movie • 1921
Der Sohn der Hagar
Movie • 1927
Steinert
Lotte
Movie • 1928
Burgkastellan Süßkind
Die goldene Krone
Movie • 1920
Gustav Lindlieb
The Love of a Queen
Movie • 1923
Ihr schlechter Ruf
Movie • 1922
Help! Raid!
Movie • 1931
Kriminalrat Kipping
The Countess of Paris
Movie • 1923
Polizeikommissar
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
Movie • 1920
Cardillac
Qualen der Nacht
Movie • 1926
Madame Wants No Children
Movie • 1926
Schlagende Wetter
Movie • 1923
Marie's father
The House by the Sea
Movie • 1924
Die drei Kuckucksuhren
Movie • 1926
Lakington
Cyanide
Movie • 1930
The Tunnel
Movie • 1915
Mr. Lloyd
In the Name of the Kaisers
Movie • 1925
Die Nonne und der Harlekin
Movie • 1918
Das lebende Rätsel
Movie • 1916
Judith Trachtenberg
Movie • 1920
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
Movie • 1921
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
Movie • 1921
The Black Panther
Movie • 1921
Antonius, a poet
Der Kampf des Donald Westhof
Movie • 1927
Wüstenrausch
Movie • 1923
Der geheimnisvolle Wanderer
Movie • 1915
The Rats
Movie • 1921
Harro Hassenreuter
The Tempest
Movie • 1932
La vierge du portail
Movie • 1924
Die Gespenster von Garden Hall
Movie • 1919
Atlantic
Movie • 1929
Dr. Holtz
Die Last
Movie • 1916
Gutspächter
Die gelbe Fratze
Movie • 1919
Kittys Father