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