Hermann Vallentin
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.
Acting
Movie
The Last Laugh
as Potbellied Guest
1924
Movie
Destiny
as (uncredited)
1921
Movie
The Haunted Castle
as Landgerichtsrat a.D.
1921
Movie
Asphalt
1929
Movie
The Finances of the Grand Duke
as Herr Bekker
1924
Movie
The Ancient Law
as Heinrich Laube
1923
Movie
The Captain from Köpenick
as Adolph Wormser
1931
Movie
Him or Me
as Kriminalkommissar
1930
Movie
Explosion
as Marie's Father
1923
Movie
Bookkeeper Kremke
as Kremke
1930
Movie
Luther
as Professor Karlstadt
1928
Movie
Cyanide
1930
Movie
The Tunnel
as Mr. Lloyd
1915
Movie
Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend
as Herzog Karl Eugen von Württemberg
1923
Movie
Atlantic
as Dr. Holtz
1929
Movie
The Stolen Face
as Wirt
1930
Movie
Only You
as Richard Geldern
1930
Movie
The Buddenbrooks
as Smith
1923
Movie
Die seltsame Vergangenheit der Thea Carter
1929
Movie
Die letzte Galavorstellung des Zirkus Wolfson
1928
Movie
The Story of a Little Parisian
as Gavard's Father
1928
Movie
The Case of Helena Willfuer
as Sein Vater
1930
Movie
The Sun's Revenge
as Mörder
1915
Movie
The Flight in the Night
as Irrenarzt, Prof. Genoni
1926