Hermann Vallentin
Acting
Born 1872-05-24
Died 1945-09-18
Berlin, Germany
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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.
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Acting
39 credits
The Last Laugh
Destiny
Help! Raid!
Des Lebens Würfelspiel
The Sun's Revenge
Die Last
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
Spies
Bookkeeper Kremke
The Haunted Castle
Two Worlds
Lotte
Luther
Only You
Die gelbe Fratze
Hearts Are Trumps
The Stolen Face
The Tunnel
The Buddenbrooks
Him or Me
Am anderen Ufer
The Story of a Little Parisian
The Ancient Law
Explosion
She and the Three
The Dangerous Age
Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin
The Finances of the Grand Duke
The Captain from Köpenick
Die Königin von Whitechapel
Adventure Mad
Der zeugende Tod
The Rats
Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend
Hannele's Ascension
The Countess of Paris
The Case of Helena Willfuer
The Black Panther
Atlantic
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Wüstenrausch
Asphalt
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
Judith Trachtenberg
Das Frühlingslied
John Riew
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
Das zweite Leben
Die drei Tänze der Mary Wilford
Madame Wants No Children
Cyanide
Hölle der Jungfrauen
In the Name of the Kaisers
Qualen der Nacht
Die glühende Gasse
Das Gift im Weibe
Der geheimnisvolle Wanderer
The Tempest
La vierge du portail
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
The House by the Sea
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