Hermann Vallentin
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1872-05-24
Day of Death
1945-09-18 (73 years old)
Place of Birth
Berlin, Germany
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.
Acting
(1933)
Sprung in den Abgrund
as Generaldirektor Schenk
(1932)
(1931)
Help! Raid!
as Kriminalrat Kipping
(1931)
The Captain from Köpenick
as Adolph Wormser
(1930)
The Case of Helena Willfuer
as Sein Vater
(1930)
Only You
as Richard Geldern
(1930)
The Stolen Face
as Wirt
(1930)
(1930)
Bookkeeper Kremke
as Kremke
(1930)
Two Worlds
as Uhrmacher Simon Goldschneider
(1930)
Him or Me
as Kriminalkommissar
(1929)
(1929)
Atlantic
as Dr. Holtz
(1929)
(1928)
(1928)
Lotte
as Burgkastellan Süßkind
(1928)
(1928)
Luther
as Professor Karlstadt
(1928)
Die Sache mit Schorrsiegel
as Isaak
(1928)
The Story of a Little Parisian
as Gavard's Father
(1927)
(1927)
Der Sohn der Hagar
as Steinert
(1927)
(1927)
The Dangerous Age
as Fischer Jensen
(1927)
Die 3 Niemandskinder
as Kastellan
(1927)
Das Erwachen des Weibes
as Vater Ponath
(1926)
The Fallen
as Ein Raffke
(1926)
The Flight in the Night
as Irrenarzt, Prof. Genoni
(1926)
Die drei Kuckucksuhren
as Lakington
(1926)
(1926)
(1925)
Des Lebens Würfelspiel
as Kommerzienrat Reichenberg
(1925)
(1924)
The Last Laugh
as Spitzbäuchiger Gast [Potbellied Guest]
(1924)
(1924)
(1924)
The Finances of the Grand Duke
as Herr Bekker
(1924)
(1924)
(1923)
The Ancient Law
as Heinrich Laube
(1923)
(1923)
Schlagende Wetter
as Marie's father
(1923)
Die Buddenbrooks
as Smith
(1923)
Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend
as Herzog Karl Eugen von Württemberg
(1923)
(1923)
(1923)
The Countess of Paris
as Polizeikommissar
(1922)
Hannele's Ascension
as Mattern
(1922)
Die Königin von Whitechapel
as Bertot
(1922)
She and the Three
as Räuberhauptmann Krause
(1922)
Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin
as Mirabeau
(1922)
(1922)
(1921)
Destiny
as (uncredited)
(1921)
The Haunted Castle
as Landgerichtsrat a.D.
(1921)
(1921)
(1921)
Der zeugende Tod
as Tessling
(1921)
(1921)
(1921)
The Black Panther
as Antonius, a poet
(1921)
(1920)
Hearts Are Trumps
as Sebaldus Dühringer
(1920)
(1920)
(1920)
Die goldene Krone
as Gustav Lindlieb
(1920)
(1920)
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
as Cardillac
(1920)
(1919)
(1919)
(1919)
(1918)
(1918)
(1918)
Am anderen Ufer
as Dymischow
(1917)
(1917)
Börse und Adel
as Graf Hochfeld oder Bankier Bath
(1916)
Die Last
as Gutspächter
(1916)
(1915)
The Tunnel
as Mr. Lloyd
(1915)
(1915)
The Sun's Revenge
as Mörder