Hermann Vallentin

Biography

Hermann Vallentin was a German actor born in Berlin in 1872 to a Jewish timber merchant and factory owner father. He trained at the Royal Theatre in Berlin and received his first engagement at the Central-Theatre in 1895/96, later becoming a film actor from 1914 onwards. After Nazi seizure of power in 1933, he emigrated to Czechoslovakia and later Mandatory Palestine, where he retired from acting due to language barriers. He died in Tel Aviv in 1945 at the age of 73.