Hermann Vallentin
Acting
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
Generaldirektor Schenk
The Tempest
The Captain from Köpenick
Adolph Wormser
Help! Raid!
Kriminalrat Kipping
Him or Me
Kriminalkommissar
The Stolen Face
Wirt
Two Worlds
Uhrmacher Simon Goldschneider
Bookkeeper Kremke
Kremke
Only You
Richard Geldern
Cyanide
The Case of Helena Willfuer
Sein Vater
Die seltsame Vergangenheit der Thea Carter
Atlantic
Dr. Holtz
Asphalt
Lotte
Burgkastellan Süßkind
Die letzte Galavorstellung des Zirkus Wolfson
Die Sache mit Schorrsiegel
Isaak
Luther
Professor Karlstadt
Ledige Mütter
The Story of a Little Parisian
Gavard's Father
The Dangerous Age
Fischer Jensen
Das Erwachen des Weibes
Vater Ponath
The Trial of Donald Westhof
Der Sohn der Hagar
Steinert
Die 3 Niemandskinder
Kastellan
Die glühende Gasse
Madame Wants No Children
The Flight in the Night
Irrenarzt, Prof. Genoni
Adventure Mad
Lakington
Qualen der Nacht
The Fallen
Ein Raffke
Des Lebens Würfelspiel
Kommerzienrat Reichenberg
In the Name of the Kaisers
The Last Laugh
Potbellied Guest
Königsliebchen
La vierge du portail
The Finances of the Grand Duke
Herr Bekker
The House by the Sea
Das Herz der Lilian Thorland
The Ancient Law
Heinrich Laube
The Countess of Paris
Polizeikommissar
The Love of a Queen
The Buddenbrooks
Smith
Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend
Herzog Karl Eugen von Württemberg
Explosion
Marie's Father
Wüstenrausch
Das Geheimnis des Renngrafen
Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin
Mirabeau
She and the Three
Räuberhauptmann Krause
Hannele's Ascension
Mattern
Ihr schlechter Ruf
Die Dame und der Landstreicher
Die Königin von Whitechapel
Bertot
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
Das zweite Leben
The Black Panther
Antonius, a poet
Destiny
(uncredited)
The Rats
Harro Hassenreuter
Der zeugende Tod
Tessling
The Haunted Castle
Landgerichtsrat a.D.
Planetenschieber
Judith Trachtenberg
Hearts Are Trumps
Sebaldus Dühringer
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
Cardillac
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
The Abyss of Souls
Die goldene Krone
Gustav Lindlieb
Die drei Tänze der Mary Wilford
Die gelbe Fratze
Kittys Father
Hölle der Jungfrauen
Die Gespenster von Garden Hall
Das Gift im Weibe
Das Frühlingslied
Die Nonne und der Harlekin
Am anderen Ufer
Dymischow
Börse und Adel
Graf Hochfeld oder Bankier Bath
John Riew
Das lebende Rätsel
Die Last
Gutspächter
The Tunnel
Mr. Lloyd
The Sun's Revenge
Mörder
Der geheimnisvolle Wanderer