Vladimir Sokoloff
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.
Known For
Old Man
The Magnificent Seven
Anselmo
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Graf Bielowski
Die Herrin von Atlantis
Dr. David Klugle
Love Crazy
Dying soldier
Conquest
Kwan Sum Tang
Macao
Anselmo
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Miguel
The Conspirators
Henryk Toleslawski
Mr. Sardonicus
George "Pop" Pilski
While the City Sleeps
Petroff
Le secret des Woronzeff
Stepan Kanevsky
Taras Bulba
Pepito Alvarez
The Baron of Arizona
The Supreme
Beyond the Time Barrier
Polda
Cloak and Dagger
M. Berger
Du haut en bas
le vieux Kostileff
Les Bas-fonds
Lewin
Niemandsland
Pop LeJon
Scarlet Street
Jacob Krubeckoff
Cimarron
Commissioner Lum Chi Chow
To the Ends of the Earth
Grandpere
Passage to Marseille
Señor Buenaventura J. Bello
Back to Bataan
Dr. Lorentz
Monster from Green Hell
Boris Jussupoff
Liebling der Götter
Le recteur
Sous les yeux d'occident
Dimitri
Spawn of the North
Jacques Dufour
Two Smart People
Baron Dobbersberg
Lac aux dames
Hollywood Classic Special
Ivan Pavloff
Arsène Lupin Returns
Basil
Blockade
Uncle Hugo
A Scandal in Paris
Grischa - the Cook
Das Schiff der verlorenen Menschen
Aziz Rakim
Istanbul
General Fu Shan
West of Shanghai
Jacob (uncredited)
Sons of Liberty
Le père Schlamp
Dans les Rues
Peter Vestos
Five Fingers: The Judas Goat
Proviantmeister
Westfront 1918: Vier von der Infanterie
The Datu
The Real Glory
Herr Andrew Brenner
Expensive Husbands
Zacharkiewicz
Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney
Smith, the Jailer
Die 3 Groschen-Oper
Sascha
Beg, Borrow or Steal
Rag picker
Die Abenteuer eines Zehnmarkscheines
Michael Bastakoff
Comrade X
Camilo
Juarez
Pepe the Janitor
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
Dr. Lorentz
Monster from British Hell
The Flying Dutchman
Alcatraz Island
The Old Fakir
Sabu and the Magic Ring
Hyder Khan
Road to Morocco
Merlow
Mister Flow
Paul Cezanne
The Life of Emile Zola
L'hetman de Jitomir (as Vl. Sokoloff)
L'Atlantide
Petroff
Fürst Woronzeff
Julius, der Clown
Katharina Knie
Undertaker
Paris Underground
Kismet
Popus
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Carlos Le Duc (uncredited)
Crossroads
The Baron
Abschied
Dr. Harvester
Die heilige Flamme
Feodor Morris
Twilight for the Gods
Smith
L'Opéra de quat'sous
Papa of Boris Mitrov
Man on a String
Violinvirtuose Dollhofer
Die weiße Sonate
Poleto
Der Sohn der Hagar
Berry
Sensation im Wintergarten
Self (archive footage)
Road to Home
Mikhail Kalinin, USSR president
Mission to Moscow
Greek Priest (uncredited)
Mr. Lucky
Malakoff
A Royal Scandal
Un vieillard dans le cortège final
La vie est à nous
Gypsy King
Don Quichotte
Chief of Police
Mayerling
Cabeau
Till We Meet Again
Gehetzte Menschen
Overseer
Moral um Mitternacht
Strafsache van Geldern
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
81
Gender
Male
Birthday
1889-12-26
Place of Birth
Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Also Known As
Wladimir Sokoloff