Hermann Vallentin
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.
Personal Details
Movies (50)
Sprung in den Abgrund
as Generaldirektor Schenk
1933
The Tempest
1932
The Captain from Köpenick
as Adolph Wormser
1931
Help! Raid!
as Kriminalrat Kipping
1931
Him or Me
as Kriminalkommissar
1930
The Stolen Face
as Wirt
1930
Two Worlds
as Uhrmacher Simon Goldschneider
1930
Bookkeeper Kremke
as Kremke
1930
Only You
as Richard Geldern
1930
Cyanide
1930
The Case of Helena Willfuer
as Sein Vater
1930
Die seltsame Vergangenheit der Thea Carter
1929
Atlantic
as Dr. Holtz
1929
Asphalt
1929
Lotte
as Burgkastellan Süßkind
1928
Die letzte Galavorstellung des Zirkus Wolfson
1928
Die Sache mit Schorrsiegel
as Isaak
1928
Luther
as Professor Karlstadt
1928
Ledige Mütter
1928
The Story of a Little Parisian
as Gavard's Father
1928
The Dangerous Age
as Fischer Jensen
1927
Das Erwachen des Weibes
as Vater Ponath
1927
Der Kampf des Donald Westhof
1927
Der Sohn der Hagar
as Steinert
1927
Die glühende Gasse
1927
Die 3 Niemandskinder
as Kastellan
1927
Madame Wants No Children
1926
The Flight in the Night
as Irrenarzt, Prof. Genoni
1926
Die drei Kuckucksuhren
as Lakington
1926
Qualen der Nacht
1926
The Fallen
as Ein Raffke
1926
Des Lebens Würfelspiel
as Kommerzienrat Reichenberg
1925
In the Name of the Kaisers
1925
The Last Laugh
as Spitzbäuchiger Gast [Potbellied Guest]
1924
Königsliebchen
1924
La vierge du portail
1924
The Finances of the Grand Duke
as Herr Bekker
1924
Das Herz der Lilian Thorland
1924
The House by the Sea
1924
The Ancient Law
as Heinrich Laube
1923
The Countess of Paris
as Polizeikommissar
1923
The Love of a Queen
1923
The Buddenbrooks
as Smith
1923
Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend
as Herzog Karl Eugen von Württemberg
1923
Schlagende Wetter
as Marie's father
1923
Das Geheimnis des Renngrafen
1923
Wüstenrausch
1923
Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin
as Mirabeau
1922
She and the Three
as Räuberhauptmann Krause
1922
Hannele's Ascension
as Mattern
1922