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Hermann Vallentin

Hermann Vallentin

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.

Sprung in den Abgrund

1933

as Generaldirektor Schenk

The Tempest

1932

The Captain from Köpenick

1931

as Adolph Wormser

Help! Raid!

1931

as Kriminalrat Kipping

Him or Me

1930

as Kriminalkommissar

The Stolen Face

1930

as Wirt

Two Worlds

1930

as Uhrmacher Simon Goldschneider

Bookkeeper Kremke

1930

as Kremke

Only You

1930

as Richard Geldern

Cyankali

1930

The Case of Helena Willfuer

1930

as Sein Vater

Die seltsame Vergangenheit der Thea Carter

1929

Atlantic

1929

as Dr. Holtz

Asphalt

1929

Lotte

1928

as Burgkastellan Süßkind

Die letzte Galavorstellung des Zirkus Wolfson

1928

Die Sache mit Schorrsiegel

1928

as Isaak

Luther

1928

as Professor Karlstadt

Ledige Mütter

1928

The Story of a Little Parisian

1928

as Gavard's Father

The Dangerous Age

1927

as Fischer Jensen

Das Erwachen des Weibes

1927

as Vater Ponath

Der Kampf des Donald Westhof

1927

Der Sohn der Hagar

1927

as Steinert

Die glühende Gasse

1927

Die 3 Niemandskinder

1927

as Kastellan

Madame Wants No Children

1926

The Flight in the Night

1926

as Irrenarzt, Prof. Genoni

Die drei Kuckucksuhren

1926

as Lakington

Qualen der Nacht

1926

The Fallen

1926

as Ein Raffke

Des Lebens Würfelspiel

1925

as Kommerzienrat Reichenberg

Im Namen des Kaisers

1925

The Last Laugh

1924

as Spitzbäuchiger Gast [Potbellied Guest]

Königsliebchen

1924

La vierge du portail

1924

The Finances of the Grand Duke

1924

as Herr Bekker

Das Herz der Lilian Thorland

1924

The House by the Sea

1924

The Ancient Law

1923

as Heinrich Laube

The Countess of Paris

1923

as Polizeikommissar

Die Liebe einer Königin

1923

Die Buddenbrooks

1923

as Smith

Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend

1923

as Herzog Karl Eugen von Württemberg

Schlagende Wetter

1923

as Marie's father

Das Geheimnis des Renngrafen

1923

Wüstenrausch

1923

Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin

1922

as Mirabeau

She and the Three

1922

as Räuberhauptmann Krause

Hannele's Ascension

1922

as Mattern

Ihr schlechter Ruf

1922

Die Dame und der Landstreicher

1922

Die Königin von Whitechapel

1922

as Bertot

Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon

1921

Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod

1921

Das zweite Leben

1921

The Black Panther

1921

as Antonius, a poet

Destiny

1921

as (uncredited)

The Rats

1921

Der zeugende Tod

1921

as Tessling

The Haunted Castle

1921

as Landgerichtsrat a.D.

Planetenschieber

1921

Judith Trachtenberg

1920

Hearts Are Trumps

1920

as Sebaldus Dühringer

Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand

1920

as Cardillac

Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter

1920

The Abyss of Souls

1920

Die goldene Krone

1920

as Gustav Lindlieb

Die drei Tänze der Mary Wilford

1920

Hölle der Jungfrauen

1919

Das Gift im Weibe

1919

Die Gespenster von Garden Hall

1919

Das Frühlingslied

1918

Die Nonne und der Harlekin

1918

Am anderen Ufer

1918

as Dymischow

Börse und Adel

1917

as Graf Hochfeld oder Bankier Bath

John Riew

1917

Das lebende Rätsel

1916

The Tunnel

1915

The Sun's Revenge

1915

as Mörder

Der geheimnisvolle Wanderer

1915