Acting
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.
Filmography
Sprung in den Abgrund
Film · 1933
The Tempest
Film · 1932
The Captain from Köpenick
Film · 1931
Help! Raid!
Film · 1931
The Stolen Face
Film · 1930
The Case of Helena Willfuer
Film · 1930
Only You
Film · 1930
Bookkeeper Kremke
Film · 1930
Two Worlds
Film · 1930
Him or Me
Film · 1930
Cyanide
Film · 1930
Die seltsame Vergangenheit der Thea Carter
Film · 1929
Asphalt
Film · 1929
Atlantik
Film · 1929
Woman in the Moon
Film · 1929
Die letzte Galavorstellung des Zirkus Wolfson
Film · 1928
The Story of a Little Parisian
Film · 1928
Luther
Film · 1928
Ledige Mütter
Film · 1928
Die Sache mit Schorrsiegel
Film · 1928
Lotte
Film · 1928
Spies
Film · 1928
The Dangerous Age
Film · 1927
Die glühende Gasse
Film · 1927
Das Erwachen des Weibes
Film · 1927
Die 3 Niemandskinder
Film · 1927
Der Sohn der Hagar
Film · 1927
The Trial of Donald Westhof
Film · 1927
The Flight in the Night
Film · 1926
The Fallen
Film · 1926
Qualen der Nacht
Film · 1926
Madame Wants No Children
Film · 1926
Adventure Mad
Film · 1926
Des Lebens Würfelspiel
Film · 1925
In the Name of the Kaisers
Film · 1925
The Last Laugh
Film · 1924
The Finances of the Grand Duke
Film · 1924
The Heart of Lilian Thorland
Film · 1924
Königsliebchen
Film · 1924
The House by the Sea
Film · 1924
La vierge du portail
Film · 1924
The Ancient Law
Film · 1923
The Buddenbrooks
Film · 1923
Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend
Film · 1923
Das Geheimnis des Renngrafen
Film · 1923
The Love of a Queen
Film · 1923
The Countess of Paris
Film · 1923
Explosion
Film · 1923
Wüstenrausch
Film · 1923
She and the Three
Film · 1922
Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin
Film · 1922
The Queen of Whitechapel
Film · 1922
Die Dame und der Landstreicher
Film · 1922
Hannele's Ascension
Film · 1922
Ihr schlechter Ruf
Film · 1922
The Haunted Castle
Film · 1921
Destiny
Film · 1921
Der zeugende Tod
Film · 1921
Planetenschieber
Film · 1921
Das zweite Leben
Film · 1921
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
Film · 1921
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
Film · 1921
The Black Panther
Film · 1921
The Rats
Film · 1921
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
Film · 1920
Die drei Tänze der Mary Wilford
Film · 1920
The Abyss of Souls
Film · 1920
Hearts Are Trumps
Film · 1920
Die goldene Krone
Film · 1920
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
Film · 1920
Judith Trachtenberg
Film · 1920
Das Gift im Weibe
Film · 1919
Hölle der Jungfrauen
Film · 1919
Die Gespenster von Garden Hall
Film · 1919
Die gelbe Fratze
Film · 1919
Das Frühlingslied
Film · 1918
Am anderen Ufer
Film · 1918
The Nun and the Harlequin
Film · 1918
John Riew
Film · 1917
Börse und Adel
Film · 1917
Das lebende Rätsel
Film · 1916
Die Last
Film · 1916
The Sun's Revenge
Film · 1915
The Tunnel
Film · 1915
Der geheimnisvolle Wanderer
Film · 1915