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Hermann Vallentin
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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 Ado…
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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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Hermann Vallentin's Filmography
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Sprung in den Abgrund
as Generaldirektor Schenk
The Tempest
The Captain from Köpenick
as Adolph Wormser
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Help! Raid!
as Kriminalrat Kipping
Him or Me
as Kriminalkommissar
The Stolen Face
as Wirt
Two Worlds
as Uhrmacher Simon Goldschneider
Bookkeeper Kremke
as Kremke
Only You
as Richard Geldern
Cyanide
as Kommissar
The Case of Helena Willfuer
as Sein Vater
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Die seltsame Vergangenheit der Thea Carter
Atlantik
as Dr. Holtz
Woman in the Moon
Asphalt
Lotte
as Burgkastellan Süßkind
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Die letzte Galavorstellung des Zirkus Wolfson
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Die Sache mit Schorrsiegel
as Isaak
Spies
as (uncredited)
Luther
as Professor Karlstadt
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Ledige Mütter
The Story of a Little Parisian
as Gavard's Father
The Dangerous Age
as Fischer Jensen
Das Erwachen des Weibes
as Vater Ponath
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The Trial of Donald Westhof
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Der Sohn der Hagar
as Steinert
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Die glühende Gasse
Die 3 Niemandskinder
as Kastellan
Madame Wants No Children
The Flight in the Night
as Irrenarzt, Prof. Genoni
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Adventure Mad
as Lakington
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Qualen der Nacht
The Fallen
as Ein Raffke
Des Lebens Würfelspiel
as Kommerzienrat Reichenberg
In the Name of the Kaisers
The Last Laugh
as Potbellied Guest
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Königsliebchen
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La vierge du portail
The Finances of the Grand Duke
as Herr Bekker
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The House by the Sea
The Heart of Lilian Thorland
The Ancient Law
as Heinrich Laube
The Countess of Paris
as Polizeikommissar
The Love of a Queen
The Buddenbrooks
as Smith
Wüstenrausch
Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend
as Herzog Karl Eugen von Württemberg
Explosion
as Marie's Father
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Das Geheimnis des Renngrafen
Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin
as Mirabeau
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She and the Three
as Räuberhauptmann Krause
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Hannele's Ascension
as Mattern
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Ihr schlechter Ruf
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Die Dame und der Landstreicher
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The Queen of Whitechapel
as Bertot
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 2. Teil - Lauernder Tod
Der Eisenbahnkönig, 1. Teil - Mensch und Mammon
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Das zweite Leben
The Black Panther
as Antonius, a poet
Destiny
as (uncredited)
The Rats
as Harro Hassenreuter
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Der zeugende Tod
as Tessling
The Haunted Castle
as Landgerichtsrat a.D.
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Planetenschieber
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Judith Trachtenberg
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Hearts Are Trumps
as Sebaldus Dühringer
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
as Cardillac
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
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The Abyss of Souls
Die goldene Krone
as Gustav Lindlieb
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Die drei Tänze der Mary Wilford
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Die gelbe Fratze
as Kittys Father
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Hölle der Jungfrauen
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Das Gift im Weibe
Die Gespenster von Garden Hall
Das Frühlingslied
The Nun and the Harlequin
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Am anderen Ufer
as Dymischow
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Börse und Adel
as Graf Hochfeld oder Bankier Bath
John Riew
Das lebende Rätsel
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Die Last
as Gutspächter
The Tunnel
as Mr. Lloyd
The Sun's Revenge
as Mörder
