Vladimir Sokoloff
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- December 26, 1889
- Died
- February 15, 1962 (aged 72)
- Birthplace
- Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sokoloff (Russian: Владимир Александрович Соколов; December 26, 1889 – February 15, 1962) was a character actor on stage and particularly in film. Sokoloff was born in Moscow, Russia. He became an actor and assistant director with the Moscow Art Theatre before emigrating to Berlin in 1923. With the rise of Nazism, Sokoloff who was Jewish, moved first to Paris in 1932, then to the United States in 1937. He appeared in a number of Broadway plays from 1937 to 1950. He also quickly found work in American films, playing characters of a wide variety of nationalities (he himself once estimated 35), for example, Filipino (Back to Bataan), French (Passage to Marseille), Greek (Mr. Lucky), Arab (Road to Morocco), Romanian (I Was a Teenage Werewolf), and Chinese (Macao). Among his better known parts are the Spanish guerrilla Anselmo in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) and the Mexican Old Man in The Magnificent Seven. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he also appeared on a number of television series, including three episodes of CBS's The Twilight Zone ("Dust", "The Gift" and "The Mirror"). On January 1, 1961, Sokoloff guest starred as "Old Stefano", a wise shepherd, in the ABC/Warner Brothers western series Lawman, with John Russell and Peter Brown. He also appeared on one episode of The Untouchables entitled "Troubleshooter". He was a pupil of Stanislavski, but in a 1960 newspaper article, he rejected Method acting (as well as all other acting theories). After a long career, he died of a stroke in 1962 in Hollywood, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vladimir Sokoloff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
Taras Bulba
Movie · as Stepan Kanevsky
Mr. Sardonicus
Movie · as Henryk Toleslawski
Five Fingers: The Judas Goat
Movie · as Peter Vestos
The Magnificent Seven
Movie · as Old Man
Beyond the Time Barrier
Movie · as The Supreme
Cimarron
Movie · as Jacob Krubeckoff
Man on a String
Movie · as Papa of Boris Mitrov
Thriller
TV · as Papa Glockstein, The Janitor · 1 ep
Harrigan and Son
TV · 1 ep
Checkmate
TV · as Pedro Moreno · 1 ep
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Movie · as Anselmo
Johnny Staccato
TV · 1 ep
The Twilight Zone
TV · as Gallegos, Father Tomas, Guitarist (Ignacio) · 1 ep
The Alaskans
TV · 1 ep
Tightrope
TV · 1 ep
Twilight for the Gods
Movie · as Feodor Morris
Peter Gunn
TV · 1 ep
The Donna Reed Show
TV · 1 ep
The Rifleman
TV · 1 ep
Monster from Green Hell
Movie · as Dr. Lorentz
Istanbul
Movie · as Aziz Rakim
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
Movie · as Pepe the Janitor
Sabu and the Magic Ring
Movie · as The Old Fakir
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV · 1 ep
Maverick
TV · as Pedro Rubio · 1 ep
While the City Sleeps
Movie · as George "Pop" Pilski
Wire Service
TV · as Prime Minister · 1 ep
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV · as Alf · 1 ep
Playhouse 90
TV · as Anselmo · 2 eps
The Millionaire
TV · as Uncle Jacques Monet · 1 ep
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as Uncle Fernaud · 1 ep
Macao
Movie · as Kwan Sum Tang
Cavalcade of America
TV · as Jake Bartosh · 1 ep
The Baron of Arizona
Movie · as Pepito Alvarez
To the Ends of the Earth
Movie · as Commissioner Lum Chi Chow
Cloak and Dagger
Movie · as Polda
Two Smart People
Movie · as Jacques Dufour
A Scandal in Paris
Movie · as Uncle Hugo
Scarlet Street
Movie · as Pop LeJon
Back to Bataan
Movie · as Señor Buenaventura J. Bello
Paris Underground
Movie · as Undertaker
Road to Home
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
A Royal Scandal
Movie · as Malakoff
The Conspirators
Movie · as Miguel
Passage to Marseille
Movie · as Grandpere
Till We Meet Again
Movie · as Cabeau
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Movie · as Anselmo
Mission to Moscow
Movie · as Mikhail Kalinin, USSR president
Mr. Lucky
Movie · as Greek Priest (uncredited)
Road to Morocco
Movie · as Hyder Khan
Crossroads
Movie · as Carlos Le Duc (uncredited)
Love Crazy
Movie · as Dr. David Klugle
Comrade X
Movie · as Michael Bastakoff
Sons of Liberty
Movie · as Jacob (uncredited)
The Real Glory
Movie · as The Datu
Juarez
Movie · as Camilo
Spawn of the North
Movie · as Dimitri
Arsène Lupin Returns
Movie · as Ivan Pavloff
Blockade
Movie · as Basil
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Movie · as Popus
Conquest
Movie · as Dying soldier
West of Shanghai
Movie · as General Fu Shan
Expensive Husbands
Movie · as Herr Andrew Brenner
Beg, Borrow or Steal
Movie · as Sascha
Alcatraz Island
Movie · as The Flying Dutchman
The Life of Emile Zola
Movie · as Paul Cezanne
The Lower Depths
Movie · as le vieux Kostileff
Under Western Eyes
Movie · as Le recteur
Mister Flow
Movie · as Merlow
Life Is Ours
Movie · as Un vieillard dans le cortège final
Mayerling
Movie · as Chief of Police
Le secret des Woronzeff
Movie · as Petroff
Ladies Lake
Movie · as Baron Dobbersberg
Prince Woronzeff
Movie · as Petroff
High and Low
Movie · as M. Berger
Song of the Streets
Movie · as Le père Schlamp
Don Quixote
Movie · as Gypsy King
Queen of Atlantis
Movie · as Graf Bielowski
The Mistress of Atlantis
Movie · as L'hetman de Jitomir (as Vl. Sokoloff)
Haunted People
Movie
Strafsache van Geldern
Movie · as Armenarzt
Hell on Earth
Movie · as Lewin
The 3 Penny Opera
Movie · as Smith, the Jailer
Kismet
Movie
The Holy Flames
Movie · as Dr. Harvester
The Threepenny Opera
Movie · as Smith
Darling of the Gods
Movie · as Boris Jussupoff
Westfront 1918
Movie · as Proviantmeister
Farewell
Movie · as The Baron
Morals at Midnight
Movie · as Overseer
The Ship of Lost Men
Movie · as Grischa - the Cook
Katharina Knie
Movie · as Julius, der Clown
Their Son
Movie · as Berry
Die weiße Sonate
Movie · as Violinvirtuose Dollhofer
The Love of Jeanne Ney
Movie · as Zacharkiewicz
Der Sohn der Hagar
Movie · as Poleto
Adventures of a Ten Mark Note
Movie · as Rag picker