Hermann Vallentin
Acting
- Born:
- 1872-05-24
- Died:
- 1945-09-18
- 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. 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
The Tempest
The Captain from Köpenick
Help! Raid!
Him or Me
The Stolen Face
Two Worlds
Bookkeeper Kremke
Only You
Cyanide
The Case of Helena Willfuer
Die seltsame Vergangenheit der Thea Carter
Atlantik
Woman in the Moon
Asphalt
Lotte
Die letzte Galavorstellung des Zirkus Wolfson
Die Sache mit Schorrsiegel
Spies
Luther
Ledige Mütter
The Story of a Little Parisian
The Dangerous Age
Das Erwachen des Weibes
The Trial of Donald Westhof
Der Sohn der Hagar
Die glühende Gasse
Die 3 Niemandskinder
Madame Wants No Children
The Flight in the Night
Adventure Mad
Qualen der Nacht
The Fallen
Des Lebens Würfelspiel
In the Name of the Kaisers
The Last Laugh
Königsliebchen
La vierge du portail
The Finances of the Grand Duke
The Heart of Lilian Thorland
The House by the Sea
The Ancient Law
The Countess of Paris
The Love of a Queen
The Buddenbrooks
Wüstenrausch
Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend
Explosion
Das Geheimnis des Renngrafen
Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin
She and the Three
Hannele's Ascension
Ihr schlechter Ruf
Die Dame und der Landstreicher
The Queen of Whitechapel
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
Das zweite Leben
The Black Panther
Destiny
The Rats
Der zeugende Tod
The Haunted Castle
Planetenschieber
Judith Trachtenberg
Hearts Are Trumps
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
The Abyss of Souls
Die goldene Krone
Die drei Tänze der Mary Wilford
Die gelbe Fratze
Hölle der Jungfrauen
Das Gift im Weibe
Die Gespenster von Garden Hall
Das Frühlingslied
The Nun and the Harlequin
Am anderen Ufer
Börse und Adel
John Riew
Das lebende Rätsel
Die Last
The Tunnel
The Sun's Revenge
Der geheimnisvolle Wanderer