Hermann Vallentin

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

The Last Laugh
The Last Laugh
The Haunted Castle
The Haunted Castle
The Stolen Face
The Stolen Face
The Finances of the Grand Duke
The Finances of the Grand Duke
The Story of a Little Parisian
The Story of a Little Parisian
The Case of Helena Willfuer
The Case of Helena Willfuer
The Sun's Revenge
The Sun's Revenge

Filmography

1933 Sprung in den Abgrund
as Generaldirektor Schenk
1932 The Tempest
as
1931 The Captain from Köpenick
as Adolph Wormser
1931 Help! Raid!
as Kriminalrat Kipping
1930 Him or Me
as Kriminalkommissar
1930 The Stolen Face
as Wirt
1930 Two Worlds
as Uhrmacher Simon Goldschneider
1930 Bookkeeper Kremke
as Kremke
1930 Only You
as Richard Geldern
1930 Cyanide
as
1930 The Case of Helena Willfuer
as Sein Vater
1929 Die seltsame Vergangenheit der Thea Carter
as
1929 Atlantic
as Dr. Holtz
1929 Asphalt
as
1928 Lotte
as Burgkastellan Süßkind
1928 Die letzte Galavorstellung des Zirkus Wolfson
as
1928 Die Sache mit Schorrsiegel
as Isaak
1928 Luther
as Professor Karlstadt
1928 Ledige Mütter
as
1928 The Story of a Little Parisian
as Gavard's Father