Hermann Vallentin
85 movies
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 24, 1872
- Died
- Sep 18, 1945 (age 73)
- Place of birth
- Berlin, Germany
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.
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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.
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Hermann Vallentin: movies and TV shows
Acting (85)
- 1933 Sprung in den Abgrund
as Generaldirektor Schenk
- 1932
- 1931 The Captain from Köpenick
as Adolph Wormser
- 1931 Help! Raid!
as Kriminalrat Kipping
- 1930 Him or Me
as Kriminalkommissar
- 1930 The Stolen Face
as Wirt
- 1930 Two Worlds
as Uhrmacher Simon Goldschneider
- 1930 Bookkeeper Kremke
as Kremke
- 1930 Only You
as Richard Geldern
- 1930 Cyanide
as Kommissar
- 1930 The Case of Helena Willfuer
as Sein Vater
- 1929
- 1929 Atlantik
as Dr. Holtz
- 1929
- 1929
- 1928 Lotte
as Burgkastellan Süßkind
- 1928
- 1928 Die Sache mit Schorrsiegel
as Isaak
- 1928 Spies
as (uncredited)
- 1928 Luther
as Professor Karlstadt
- 1928
- 1928 The Story of a Little Parisian
as Gavard's Father
- 1927 The Dangerous Age
as Fischer Jensen
- 1927 Das Erwachen des Weibes
as Vater Ponath
- 1927
- 1927 Der Sohn der Hagar
as Steinert
- 1927
- 1927 Die 3 Niemandskinder
as Kastellan
- 1926
- 1926 The Flight in the Night
as Irrenarzt, Prof. Genoni
- 1926 Adventure Mad
as Lakington
- 1926
- 1926 The Fallen
as Ein Raffke
- 1925 Des Lebens Würfelspiel
as Kommerzienrat Reichenberg
- 1925
- 1924 The Last Laugh
as Potbellied Guest
- 1924
- 1924
- 1924 The Finances of the Grand Duke
as Herr Bekker
- 1924
- 1924
- 1923 The Ancient Law
as Heinrich Laube
- 1923 The Countess of Paris
as Polizeikommissar
- 1923
- 1923 The Buddenbrooks
as Smith
- 1923
- 1923 Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend
as Herzog Karl Eugen von Württemberg
- 1923 Explosion
as Marie's Father
- 1923
- 1922 Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin
as Mirabeau
- 1922 She and the Three
as Räuberhauptmann Krause
- 1922 Hannele's Ascension
as Mattern
- 1922
- 1922
- 1922 The Queen of Whitechapel
as Bertot
- 1921
- 1921
- 1921
- 1921 The Black Panther
as Antonius, a poet
- 1921 Destiny
as (uncredited)
- 1921 The Rats
as Harro Hassenreuter
- 1921 Der zeugende Tod
as Tessling
- 1921 The Haunted Castle
as Landgerichtsrat a.D.
- 1921
- 1920
- 1920 Hearts Are Trumps
as Sebaldus Dühringer
- 1920 Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
as Cardillac
- 1920
- 1920
- 1920 Die goldene Krone
as Gustav Lindlieb
- 1920
- 1919 Die gelbe Fratze
as Kittys Father
- 1919
- 1919
- 1919
- 1918
- 1918
- 1918 Am anderen Ufer
as Dymischow
- 1917 Börse und Adel
as Graf Hochfeld oder Bankier Bath
- 1917
- 1916
- 1916 Die Last
as Gutspächter
- 1915 The Tunnel
as Mr. Lloyd
- 1915 The Sun's Revenge
as Mörder
- 1915