Acting
Hermann Vallentin
DE, FR, XX cinema · 88 credits
Born
24 May 1872
Died
18 September 1945 (aged 73)
Birthplace
Berlin, Germany
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.
Known for
Filmography
Sprung in den Abgrund
1933
Sprung in den Abgrund
as Generaldirektor Schenk
The Captain from Köpenick
as Adolph Wormser
Hilfe! Überfall!
1931
Help! Raid!
as Kriminalrat Kipping
The Stolen Face
as Wirt
The Case of Helena Willfuer
as Sein Vater
Only You
as Richard Geldern
Bookkeeper Kremke
as Kremke
Two Worlds
as Uhrmacher Simon Goldschneider
Him or Me
as Kriminalkommissar
Cyanide
as Kommissar
Die seltsame Vergangenheit der Thea Carter
1929
Die seltsame Vergangenheit der Thea Carter
Actor
Asphalt
Actor
Atlantik
as Dr. Holtz
The Story of a Little Parisian
as Gavard's Father
Luther
as Professor Karlstadt
Lotte
as Burgkastellan Süßkind
Spies
as (uncredited)
The Dangerous Age
as Fischer Jensen
Das Erwachen des Weibes
as Vater Ponath
Die 3 Niemandskinder
as Kastellan
The Flight in the Night
as Irrenarzt, Prof. Genoni
The Fallen
as Ein Raffke
Des Lebens Würfelspiel
as Kommerzienrat Reichenberg
The Last Laugh
as Potbellied Guest
The Finances of the Grand Duke
as Herr Bekker
The Ancient Law
as Heinrich Laube
The Buddenbrooks
as Smith
Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend
as Herzog Karl Eugen von Württemberg
The Countess of Paris
as Polizeikommissar
Explosion
as Marie's Father
Sie und die Drei
1922
She and the Three
as Räuberhauptmann Krause
The Haunted Castle
as Landgerichtsrat a.D.
Destiny
as (uncredited)
The Black Panther
as Antonius, a poet
The Rats
as Harro Hassenreuter
Herztrumpf
1920
Hearts Are Trumps
as Sebaldus Dühringer
Die goldene Krone
as Gustav Lindlieb
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
as Cardillac
Die letzten Kolczags
1920
Die letzten Kolczags
as Wladislaw Leczek, Verwalter
Die gelbe Fratze
1919
Die gelbe Fratze
as Kittys Father
Börse und Adel
1917
Börse und Adel
as Graf Hochfeld oder Bankier Bath
Die Last
1916
Die Last
as Gutspächter
The Sun's Revenge
as Mörder
The Tunnel
as Mr. Lloyd