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.

Known For

The Last Laugh

Destiny

Asphalt

The Haunted Castle

The Tempest

The Ancient Law

Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter

The Finances of the Grand Duke

All Movies (83)

• Sprung in den Abgrund1933 · as Generaldirektor Schenk
• The Tempest1932
• The Captain from Köpenick1931 · as Adolph Wormser
• Help! Raid!1931 · as Kriminalrat Kipping
• Him or Me1930 · as Kriminalkommissar
• The Stolen Face1930 · as Wirt
• Two Worlds1930 · as Uhrmacher Simon Goldschneider
• Bookkeeper Kremke1930 · as Kremke
• Only You1930 · as Richard Geldern
• Cyanide1930
• The Case of Helena Willfuer1930 · as Sein Vater
• Die seltsame Vergangenheit der Thea Carter1929
• Atlantic1929 · as Dr. Holtz
• Asphalt1929
• Lotte1928 · as Burgkastellan Süßkind
• Die letzte Galavorstellung des Zirkus Wolfson1928
• Die Sache mit Schorrsiegel1928 · as Isaak
• Luther1928 · as Professor Karlstadt
• Ledige Mütter1928
• The Story of a Little Parisian1928 · as Gavard's Father
• The Dangerous Age1927 · as Fischer Jensen
• Das Erwachen des Weibes1927 · as Vater Ponath
• The Trial of Donald Westhof1927
• Der Sohn der Hagar1927 · as Steinert
• Die glühende Gasse1927
• Die 3 Niemandskinder1927 · as Kastellan
• Madame Wants No Children1926
• The Flight in the Night1926 · as Irrenarzt, Prof. Genoni
• Adventure Mad1926 · as Lakington
• Qualen der Nacht1926
• The Fallen1926 · as Ein Raffke
• Des Lebens Würfelspiel1925 · as Kommerzienrat Reichenberg
• In the Name of the Kaisers1925
• The Last Laugh1924 · as Potbellied Guest
• Königsliebchen1924
• La vierge du portail1924
• The Finances of the Grand Duke1924 · as Herr Bekker
• Das Herz der Lilian Thorland1924
• The House by the Sea1924
• The Ancient Law1923 · as Heinrich Laube
• The Countess of Paris1923 · as Polizeikommissar
• The Love of a Queen1923
• The Buddenbrooks1923 · as Smith
• Wüstenrausch1923
• Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend1923 · as Herzog Karl Eugen von Württemberg
• Explosion1923 · as Marie's Father
• Das Geheimnis des Renngrafen1923
• Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin1922 · as Mirabeau
• She and the Three1922 · as Räuberhauptmann Krause
• Hannele's Ascension1922 · as Mattern
• Ihr schlechter Ruf1922
• Die Dame und der Landstreicher1922
• Die Königin von Whitechapel1922 · as Bertot
• Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon1921
• Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod1921
• Das zweite Leben1921
• The Black Panther1921 · as Antonius, a poet
• Destiny1921 · as (uncredited)
• The Rats1921 · as Harro Hassenreuter
• Der zeugende Tod1921 · as Tessling
• The Haunted Castle1921 · as Landgerichtsrat a.D.
• Planetenschieber1921
• Judith Trachtenberg1920
• Hearts Are Trumps1920 · as Sebaldus Dühringer
• Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand1920 · as Cardillac
• Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter1920
• The Abyss of Souls1920
• Die goldene Krone1920 · as Gustav Lindlieb
• Die drei Tänze der Mary Wilford1920
• Die gelbe Fratze1919 · as Kittys Father
• Hölle der Jungfrauen1919
• Das Gift im Weibe1919
• Die Gespenster von Garden Hall1919
• Das Frühlingslied1918
• Die Nonne und der Harlekin1918
• Am anderen Ufer1918 · as Dymischow
• Börse und Adel1917 · as Graf Hochfeld oder Bankier Bath
• John Riew1917
• Das lebende Rätsel1916
• Die Last1916 · as Gutspächter
• The Tunnel1915 · as Mr. Lloyd
• The Sun's Revenge1915 · as Mörder
• Der geheimnisvolle Wanderer1915