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Hermann Vallentin
Berlin, 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 ol…
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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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1933
Sprung in den Abgrund
Movie Generaldirektor Schenk
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1932
The Tempest
Movie
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1931
The Captain from Köpenick
Movie Adolph Wormser
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1931
Help! Raid!
Movie Kriminalrat Kipping
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1930
Him or Me
Movie Kriminalkommissar
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1930
The Stolen Face
Movie Wirt
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1930
Two Worlds
Movie Uhrmacher Simon Goldschneider
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1930
Bookkeeper Kremke
Movie Kremke
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1930
Only You
Movie Richard Geldern
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1930
Cyanide
Movie
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1930
The Case of Helena Willfuer
Movie Sein Vater
- 1929
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1929
Atlantic
Movie Dr. Holtz
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1929
Woman in the Moon
Movie
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1929
Asphalt
Movie
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1928
Lotte
Movie Burgkastellan Süßkind
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- 1928
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1928
Die Sache mit Schorrsiegel
Movie Isaak
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1928
Spies
Movie (uncredited)
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1928
Luther
Movie Professor Karlstadt
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1928
Ledige Mütter
Movie
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1928
The Story of a Little Parisian
Movie Gavard's Father
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1927
The Dangerous Age
Movie Fischer Jensen
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1927
Das Erwachen des Weibes
Movie Vater Ponath
- 1927
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1927
Der Sohn der Hagar
Movie Steinert
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1927
Die glühende Gasse
Movie
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1927
Die 3 Niemandskinder
Movie Kastellan
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1926
Madame Wants No Children
Movie
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1926
The Flight in the Night
Movie Irrenarzt, Prof. Genoni
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1926
Adventure Mad
Movie Lakington
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1926
Qualen der Nacht
Movie
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1926
The Fallen
Movie Ein Raffke
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1925
Des Lebens Würfelspiel
Movie Kommerzienrat Reichenberg
- 1925
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1924
The Last Laugh
Movie Potbellied Guest
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1924
Königsliebchen
Movie
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1924
La vierge du portail
Movie
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1924
The Finances of the Grand Duke
Movie Herr Bekker
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1924
The House by the Sea
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