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Hermann Vallentin
Actor
Born May 24, 1872Died September 18, 1945 (73 years)
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.
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
| 1931 | The Captain from Köpenick · as Adolph Wormser |
| 1930 | Two Worlds · as Goldscheider (german Version) |
| 1929 | Woman in the Moon · as Fünf Gehirne Und Scheckbücher |
| 1929 | Atlantik · as Dr. Holtz |
| 1929 | |
| 1928 | Spies · as Hotel Security Chief |
| 1924 | The Last Laugh · as Spitzbäuchiger Gast [potbellied Guest] |
| 1924 | Finances of the Grand Duke · as Herr Bekker |
| 1923 | This Ancient Law · as Heinrich Laube |
| 1923 | Im Rausch der Leidenschaft · as Cast |
| 1923 | Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend · as Herzog Karl Eugen Von Württemberg |
| 1923 | Explosion · as Marie's Father |
| 1922 | Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin · as Mirabeau |
| 1922 | Die fünf Frankfurter · as Cast |
| 1922 | Der Mann im Hintergrund · as Cast |
| 1922 | Liebe kann man nicht kaufen · as Cast |
| 1922 | Sein ist das Gericht · as Cast |
| 1921 | Destiny · as (uncredited) |
| 1921 | The Haunted Castle · as Landgerichtsrat A.d. |
| 1920 | Das Skelett des Herrn Markutius · as Prof. Vansen |
| 1920 | Er selbst sein Gott · as Vater Fischer Herwigh |
| 1920 | Das Grauen · as Konsul Löv |
| 1920 | Die letzten Kolczaks · as Verwalter |
| 1919 | Der Letzte Untertan · as Zeitungsverleger Lehmann |
| 1919 | Im Dienste der Liebe · as Bankier John Parker |
| 1919 | Not und Verbrechen · as Melchior Udvari |
| 1919 | Liebeswirren · as Cast |
| 1919 | Die Gelbe Fratze · as Kittys Vater |
| 1918 | |
| 1918 | Der Unwiderstehliche Theodor · as Erster Einbrecher |
| 1916 | Börse und Adel · as Graf Hochfeld Oder Bankier Bath |
| 1915 |