Acting · Berlin, Germany · Born May 24, 1872
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
1933
as Generaldirektor Schenk
MovieThe Tempest
1932
MovieThe Captain from Köpenick
1931
as Adolph Wormser
Help! Raid!
1931
as Kriminalrat Kipping
MovieHim or Me
1930
as Kriminalkommissar
MovieThe Stolen Face
1930
as Wirt
MovieTwo Worlds
1930
as Uhrmacher Simon Goldschneider
MovieBookkeeper Kremke
1930
as Kremke
MovieOnly You
1930
as Richard Geldern
MovieCyanide
1930
MovieThe Case of Helena Willfuer
1930
as Sein Vater
Die seltsame Vergangenheit der Thea Carter
1929
MovieAtlantic
1929
as Dr. Holtz
MovieAsphalt
1929
MovieLotte
1928
as Burgkastellan Süßkind
Die letzte Galavorstellung des Zirkus Wolfson
1928
Die Sache mit Schorrsiegel
1928
as Isaak
MovieLuther
1928
as Professor Karlstadt
Ledige Mütter
1928
MovieThe Story of a Little Parisian
1928
as Gavard's Father
MovieThe Dangerous Age
1927
as Fischer Jensen
MovieDas Erwachen des Weibes
1927
as Vater Ponath
The Trial of Donald Westhof
1927
Der Sohn der Hagar
1927
as Steinert
Die glühende Gasse
1927
MovieDie 3 Niemandskinder
1927
as Kastellan
MovieMadame Wants No Children
1926
MovieThe Flight in the Night
1926
as Irrenarzt, Prof. Genoni
Adventure Mad
1926
as Lakington
Qualen der Nacht
1926
MovieThe Fallen
1926
as Ein Raffke
MovieDes Lebens Würfelspiel
1925
as Kommerzienrat Reichenberg
MovieIn the Name of the Kaisers
1925
MovieThe Last Laugh
1924
as Potbellied Guest
Königsliebchen
1924
La vierge du portail
1924
MovieThe Finances of the Grand Duke
1924
as Herr Bekker
MovieDas Herz der Lilian Thorland
1924
The House by the Sea
1924
MovieThe Ancient Law
1923
as Heinrich Laube
MovieThe Countess of Paris
1923
as Polizeikommissar
MovieThe Love of a Queen
1923
MovieThe Buddenbrooks
1923
as Smith
MovieWüstenrausch
1923
MovieFriedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend
1923
as Herzog Karl Eugen von Württemberg
MovieExplosion
1923
as Marie's Father
Das Geheimnis des Renngrafen
1923
MovieMarie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin
1922
as Mirabeau
She and the Three
1922
as Räuberhauptmann Krause
Hannele's Ascension
1922
as Mattern
Ihr schlechter Ruf
1922
Die Dame und der Landstreicher
1922
Die Königin von Whitechapel
1922
as Bertot
MovieDer Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
1921
MovieDer Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
1921
Das zweite Leben
1921
MovieThe Black Panther
1921
as Antonius, a poet
MovieDestiny
1921
as (uncredited)
MovieThe Rats
1921
as Harro Hassenreuter
Der zeugende Tod
1921
as Tessling
MovieThe Haunted Castle
1921
as Landgerichtsrat a.D.
Planetenschieber
1921
Judith Trachtenberg
1920
Hearts Are Trumps
1920
as Sebaldus Dühringer
MovieChristian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
1920
as Cardillac
MovieDer Schädel der Pharaonentochter
1920
The Abyss of Souls
1920
MovieDie goldene Krone
1920
as Gustav Lindlieb
Die drei Tänze der Mary Wilford
1920
Die gelbe Fratze
1919
as Kittys Father
Hölle der Jungfrauen
1919
Das Gift im Weibe
1919
MovieDie Gespenster von Garden Hall
1919
MovieDas Frühlingslied
1918
MovieDie Nonne und der Harlekin
1918
Am anderen Ufer
1918
as Dymischow
Börse und Adel
1917
as Graf Hochfeld oder Bankier Bath
MovieJohn Riew
1917
MovieDas lebende Rätsel
1916
Die Last
1916
as Gutspächter
MovieThe Tunnel
1915
as Mr. Lloyd
MovieThe Sun's Revenge
1915
as Mörder
MovieDer geheimnisvolle Wanderer
1915
