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