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Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Berlin, Germany

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Movie Involvements: 38

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

Destiny
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7

Destiny

(1921) (uncredited)
The Last Laugh
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8

The Last Laugh

(1924) Spitzbäuchiger Gast [Potbellied Guest]
The Haunted Castle
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6

The Haunted Castle

(1921) Landgerichtsrat a.D.
Am anderen Ufer
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Am anderen Ufer

(1918) Dymischow
The Stolen Face
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The Stolen Face

(1930) Wirt
Lotte
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Lotte

(1928) Burgkastellan Süßkind
The Ancient Law
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6

The Ancient Law

(1923) Heinrich Laube
Atlantic
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7

Atlantic

(1929) Dr. Holtz

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1933 Generaldirektor Schenk
1932 N/A
1931 Adolph Wormser
Kriminalrat Kipping
1930 Kriminalkommissar
Wirt
Uhrmacher Simon Goldschneider
Kremke
Richard Geldern
N/A
Sein Vater
1929 N/A
Dr. Holtz
N/A
1928 Burgkastellan Süßkind
N/A
Isaak
Professor Karlstadt
N/A
Gavard's Father
1927 Fischer Jensen
Vater Ponath
N/A
Steinert
N/A
Kastellan
1926 N/A
Irrenarzt, Prof. Genoni
Lakington
N/A
Ein Raffke
1925 Kommerzienrat Reichenberg
N/A
1924 Spitzbäuchiger Gast [Potbellied Guest]
N/A
N/A
Herr Bekker
N/A
N/A
1923 Heinrich Laube
Polizeikommissar
N/A
Smith
Herzog Karl Eugen von Württemberg
Marie's father
N/A
N/A
1922 Mirabeau
Räuberhauptmann Krause
Mattern
N/A
N/A
Bertot
1921 N/A
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Antonius, a poet
(uncredited)
N/A
Tessling
Landgerichtsrat a.D.
N/A
1920 N/A
Sebaldus Dühringer
Cardillac
N/A
N/A
Gustav Lindlieb
N/A
1919 N/A
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1918 N/A
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Dymischow
1917 Graf Hochfeld oder Bankier Bath
N/A
1916 N/A
1915 N/A
Mörder
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Year Character Movie/Tv

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