Hermann Vallentin
Date of birth: 1872-05-24
Place of birth: Berlin, Germany
Known for: Acting
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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.
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The Last Laugh
1924-12-23
An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel, is forced to face
The Haunted Castle
1921-04-07
The sinister Count Oetsch scandalizes the aristocratic social gathering at Castle Vogelod as he anno
Die seltsame Vergangenheit der Thea Carter
1929-12-03
The Stolen Face
1930-11-10
Bill's girlfriend Lore is an art student in Berlin. Since her professor doesn't think much of painti
Die letzte Galavorstellung des Zirkus Wolfson
1928-04-11
The Finances of the Grand Duke
1924-01-07
The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service
The Story of a Little Parisian
1928-01-26
Totte works in Paris when she meets the wealthy Renato. Renato's father wants him to marry so to foo
The Case of Helena Willfuer
1930-03-03
The Sun's Revenge
1915-07-09
An innkeeper in sheer despair murders a passing by musician and steals his money in order to buy med
The Flight in the Night
1926-12-13
Based on the play Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello. Conrad Veidt plays Count di Nolli, a nobleman who, a
Only You
1930-09-04
The Dangerous Age
1927-11-17
The gorgeous 40-year-old Elsie Lindtner lives in a beautiful house, and is married to a respectable
Das Frühlingslied
1918-07-05
John Riew
1917-01-01
The Ancient Law
1923-10-29
Baruch Mayer, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the fami
The Captain from Köpenick
1931-12-22
Based on the true story of a cobbler who bought a second-hand captain's uniform, assumed command of
Sprung in den Abgrund
1933-03-29
Das Gift im Weibe
1919-01-01
Die glühende Gasse
1927-01-01
Hölle der Jungfrauen
1919-10-01
Börse und Adel
1917-04-01
A young woman marries a wealthy count she does not love, after she learns of her beau's flirtations
Asphalt
1929-03-12
Starring Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Joe May's Asphalt is a luxuriously produced Ge
Destiny
1921-10-06
As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is seques
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
1920-11-11
A pharaonic tragedy to the content that spans six different eras. In the first episode, the emergenc
Des Lebens Würfelspiel
1925-08-21
a silent movie by Heinz Paul
Die drei Tänze der Mary Wilford
1920-04-01
a silent movie by Robert Wiene
The Abyss of Souls
1920-09-02
Am anderen Ufer
1918-05-01
Bookkeeper Kremke
1930-09-14
In this realistic, unsentimental portrait of Germany’s dire economic situation, a middle-aged payrol
The Buddenbrooks
1923-08-30
Four-generation story-saga dealing with the decline of a middle-class Lübeck family. The first adapt
Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend
1923-03-26
In his film version, Curt Goetz shifts the focus away from the poetic output towards the young Fried
Luther
1928-02-16
German silent film about the life of Martin Luther
Two Worlds
1930-09-15
German language version of Two Worlds.
She and the Three
1922-06-22
Hearts Are Trumps
1920-12-03
Der zeugende Tod
1921-04-14
Das Erwachen des Weibes
1927-10-12
Him or Me
1930-11-27
Prince Valona has a bit of trouble with his girlfriend Eveline (Olivia Fried), so he's quite open fo
The Fallen
1926-01-18
Das Herz der Lilian Thorland
1924-01-01
Königsliebchen
1924-09-27
Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin
1922-10-26
The life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, during the years leading up to and during the French
Planetenschieber
1921-02-06
Die Königin von Whitechapel
1922-01-01
Das Geheimnis des Renngrafen
1923-01-01
Die 3 Niemandskinder
1927-01-01
Ledige Mütter
1928-02-14
Die Dame und der Landstreicher
1922-02-02
Die Sache mit Schorrsiegel
1928-04-06
Hannele's Ascension
1922-04-09
A young woman is abused or abandoned by the men in her life.
Das zweite Leben
1921-12-02
Der Sohn der Hagar
1927-03-24
Lotte
1928-04-17
The Love of a Queen
1923-09-13
In 1766, the young English princess Caroline Mathilde is sent to Denmark to marry the King Christian
Die goldene Krone
1920-08-05
Ihr schlechter Ruf
1922-02-22
Help! Raid!
1931-10-27
The Countess of Paris
1923-10-12
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
1920-11-12
Weltbrand is the first part of the two-part silent movie Christian Wahnschaffe.
Qualen der Nacht
1926-04-23
Madame Wants No Children
1926-12-14
Playboy Paul Le Barroy, weds Elyane Parizot because he is ready for children, and his mistress, Loui
Schlagende Wetter
1923-02-15
After the revelation that Georg has seduced her, Maria is driven away by her father. Georg, fearing
The House by the Sea
1924-01-01
The proprietors of a small inn on the Italian coast suddenly have to cater for a company of conscrip
Die drei Kuckucksuhren
1926-05-25
Lord Ernest Clifton lives with his beautiful wife, Gladys, at Easton Lodge. He has lost immense weal
Cyanide
1930-05-22
Drama based on a play by Friedrich Wolf. Hete is pregnant, hoping to have a family with her fiancé P
The Tunnel
1915-09-01
Max Allan, a visionary engineer persuades investors to fund building an undersea railway connecting
Im Namen des Kaisers
1925-02-18
Die Nonne und der Harlekin
1918-06-01
Das lebende Rätsel
1916-09-01
Judith Trachtenberg
1920-12-09
In the nineteenth century a young Jewish woman living in the part of Poland controlled by Austria, m
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
1921-12-29
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
1921-12-29
The Black Panther
1921-10-14
Kornej is a young painter of primitivism. An art agent discover the works of Kornej and buy the whol
Der Kampf des Donald Westhof
1927-09-29
Wüstenrausch
1923-01-01
A romantic adventure set in the Sahara desert.
Der geheimnisvolle Wanderer
1915-01-01
A mysterious man saves the son of a wealthy couple so they allow him to stay at their place for one
The Rats
1921-07-29
Die Ratten was produced by actress and singer Grete Ly. Her company, Grete Ly-Film, made five films
The Tempest
1932-01-22
Two inspiration sources appear clearly: contemporary American gangster movies and Alfred Döblin’s no
La vierge du portail
1924-05-09
Die Gespenster von Garden Hall
1919-01-01
Atlantic
1929-10-28
German-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and se
Die Last
1916-01-01