Hermann Vallentin
Acting
1872-05-24 · Berlin, Germany
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
Sprung in den Abgrund
1933 · Movie
The Tempest
1932 · Movie
The Captain from Köpenick
1931 · Movie
Help! Raid!
1931 · Movie
Him or Me
1930 · Movie
The Stolen Face
1930 · Movie
Two Worlds
1930 · Movie
Bookkeeper Kremke
1930 · Movie
Only You
1930 · Movie
Cyanide
1930 · Movie
The Case of Helena Willfuer
1930 · Movie
Die seltsame Vergangenheit der Thea Carter
1929 · Movie
Atlantic
1929 · Movie
Woman in the Moon
1929 · Movie
Asphalt
1929 · Movie
Lotte
1928 · Movie
Die letzte Galavorstellung des Zirkus Wolfson
1928 · Movie
Die Sache mit Schorrsiegel
1928 · Movie
Spies
1928 · Movie
Luther
1928 · Movie
Ledige Mütter
1928 · Movie
The Story of a Little Parisian
1928 · Movie
The Dangerous Age
1927 · Movie
Das Erwachen des Weibes
1927 · Movie
The Trial of Donald Westhof
1927 · Movie
Der Sohn der Hagar
1927 · Movie
Die glühende Gasse
1927 · Movie
Die 3 Niemandskinder
1927 · Movie
Madame Wants No Children
1926 · Movie
The Flight in the Night
1926 · Movie
Adventure Mad
1926 · Movie
Qualen der Nacht
1926 · Movie
The Fallen
1926 · Movie
Des Lebens Würfelspiel
1925 · Movie
In the Name of the Kaisers
1925 · Movie
The Last Laugh
1924 · Movie
Königsliebchen
1924 · Movie
La vierge du portail
1924 · Movie
The Finances of the Grand Duke
1924 · Movie
The House by the Sea
1924 · Movie
Das Herz der Lilian Thorland
1924 · Movie
The Ancient Law
1923 · Movie
The Countess of Paris
1923 · Movie
The Love of a Queen
1923 · Movie
The Buddenbrooks
1923 · Movie
Wüstenrausch
1923 · Movie
Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend
1923 · Movie
Explosion
1923 · Movie
Das Geheimnis des Renngrafen
1923 · Movie
Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin
1922 · Movie
She and the Three
1922 · Movie
Hannele's Ascension
1922 · Movie
Ihr schlechter Ruf
1922 · Movie
Die Dame und der Landstreicher
1922 · Movie
Die Königin von Whitechapel
1922 · Movie
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
1921 · Movie
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
1921 · Movie
Das zweite Leben
1921 · Movie
The Black Panther
1921 · Movie
Destiny
1921 · Movie
The Rats
1921 · Movie
Der zeugende Tod
1921 · Movie
The Haunted Castle
1921 · Movie
Planetenschieber
1921 · Movie
Judith Trachtenberg
1920 · Movie
Hearts Are Trumps
1920 · Movie
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
1920 · Movie
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
1920 · Movie
The Abyss of Souls
1920 · Movie
Die goldene Krone
1920 · Movie
Die drei Tänze der Mary Wilford
1920 · Movie
Die gelbe Fratze
1919 · Movie
Hölle der Jungfrauen
1919 · Movie
Das Gift im Weibe
1919 · Movie
Die Gespenster von Garden Hall
1919 · Movie
Das Frühlingslied
1918 · Movie
Die Nonne und der Harlekin
1918 · Movie
Am anderen Ufer
1918 · Movie
Börse und Adel
1917 · Movie
John Riew
1917 · Movie
Das lebende Rätsel
1916 · Movie
Die Last
1916 · Movie
The Tunnel
1915 · Movie
The Sun's Revenge
1915 · Movie
Der geheimnisvolle Wanderer
1915 · Movie