Hermann Vallentin

Known for ActingBorn 1872-05-24Died 1945-09-18Berlin, Germany

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.Read more

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Sprung in den Abgrund

Help! Raid!

Die Sache mit Schorrsiegel

Lotte

Der Sohn der Hagar

Qualen der Nacht

Madame Wants No Children

La vierge du portail

Die Dame und der Landstreicher

Der zeugende Tod

Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon

The Rats

Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand

Das Gift im Weibe

The Sun's Revenge

Der geheimnisvolle Wanderer

The Tempest

Die seltsame Vergangenheit der Thea Carter

Die glühende Gasse

The Fallen

Des Lebens Würfelspiel

In the Name of the Kaisers

Königsliebchen

Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin

Hannele's Ascension

Ihr schlechter Ruf

Planetenschieber

Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod

Die drei Tänze der Mary Wilford

Börse und Adel

Only You

The Story of a Little Parisian

The House by the Sea

The Love of a Queen

She and the Three

Das zweite Leben

Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter

Judith Trachtenberg

Die Gespenster von Garden Hall

Bookkeeper Kremke

The Last Laugh

The Stolen Face

Atlantic

Destiny

Asphalt

Explosion

The Case of Helena Willfuer

Cyanide