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.
1933
as Generaldirektor Schenk
1932
1931
as Adolph Wormser
1931
as Kriminalrat Kipping
1930
as Kriminalkommissar
1930
as Wirt
1930
as Uhrmacher Simon Goldschneider
1930
as Kremke
1930
as Richard Geldern
1930
1930
as Sein Vater
1929
1929
as Dr. Holtz
1929
1928
as Burgkastellan Süßkind
1928
1928
as Isaak
1928
as Professor Karlstadt
1928
1928
as Gavard's Father
1927
as Fischer Jensen
1927
as Vater Ponath
1927
1927
as Steinert
1927
1927
as Kastellan
1926
1926
as Irrenarzt, Prof. Genoni
1926
as Lakington
1926
1926
as Ein Raffke
1925
as Kommerzienrat Reichenberg
1925
1924
as Spitzbäuchiger Gast [Potbellied Guest]
1924
1924
1924
as Herr Bekker
1924
1924
1923
as Heinrich Laube
1923
as Polizeikommissar
1923
1923
as Smith
1923
as Herzog Karl Eugen von Württemberg
1923
as Marie's father
1923
1923
1922
as Mirabeau
1922
as Räuberhauptmann Krause
1922
as Mattern
1922
1922
1922
as Bertot
1921
1921
1921
1921
as Antonius, a poet
1921
as (uncredited)
1921
1921
as Tessling
1921
as Landgerichtsrat a.D.
1921
1920
1920
as Sebaldus Dühringer
1920
as Cardillac
1920
1920
1920
as Gustav Lindlieb
1920
1919
1919
1919
1918
1918
1918
as Dymischow
1917
as Graf Hochfeld oder Bankier Bath
1917
1916
1915
1915
as Mörder
1915