Vladimir Sokoloff
Acting • Born 1889-12-26 – Died 1962-02-15
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.
Filmography
101 credits
The Magnificent Seven
Movie • 1960
Old Man
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Movie • 1959
Anselmo
Queen of Atlantis
Movie • 1932
Graf Bielowski
Love Crazy
Movie • 1941
Dr. David Klugle
Conquest
Movie • 1937
Dying soldier
Macao
Movie • 1952
Kwan Sum Tang
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Movie • 1943
Anselmo
The Conspirators
Movie • 1944
Miguel
Mr. Sardonicus
Movie • 1961
Henryk Toleslawski
While the City Sleeps
Movie • 1956
George "Pop" Pilski
Le secret des Woronzeff
Movie • 1935
Petroff
Taras Bulba
Movie • 1962
Stepan Kanevsky
The Baron of Arizona
Movie • 1950
Pepito Alvarez
Beyond the Time Barrier
Movie • 1960
The Supreme
Cloak and Dagger
Movie • 1946
Polda
High and Low
Movie • 1933
M. Berger
The Lower Depths
Movie • 1936
le vieux Kostileff
Hell on Earth
Movie • 1931
Lewin
Scarlet Street
Movie • 1945
Pop LeJon
Cimarron
Movie • 1960
Jacob Krubeckoff
To the Ends of the Earth
Movie • 1948
Commissioner Lum Chi Chow
Passage to Marseille
Movie • 1944
Grandpere
Back to Bataan
Movie • 1945
Señor Buenaventura J. Bello
Monster from Green Hell
Movie • 1957
Dr. Lorentz
Darling of the Gods
Movie • 1930
Boris Jussupoff
Under Western Eyes
Movie • 1936
Le recteur
Spawn of the North
Movie • 1938
Dimitri
Two Smart People
Movie • 1946
Jacques Dufour
Ladies Lake
Movie • 1934
Baron Dobbersberg
Arsène Lupin Returns
Movie • 1938
Ivan Pavloff
Blockade
Movie • 1938
Basil
A Scandal in Paris
Movie • 1946
Uncle Hugo
The Ship of Lost Men
Movie • 1929
Grischa - the Cook
Istanbul
Movie • 1957
Aziz Rakim
West of Shanghai
Movie • 1937
General Fu Shan
Sons of Liberty
Movie • 1939
Jacob (uncredited)
Song of the Streets
Movie • 1933
Le père Schlamp
Five Fingers: The Judas Goat
Movie • 1961
Peter Vestos
Westfront 1918
Movie • 1930
Proviantmeister
The Real Glory
Movie • 1939
The Datu
Expensive Husbands
Movie • 1937
Herr Andrew Brenner
The Love of Jeanne Ney
Movie • 1927
Zacharkiewicz
The 3 Penny Opera
Movie • 1931
Smith, the Jailer
Beg, Borrow or Steal
Movie • 1937
Sascha
Adventures of a Ten Mark Note
Movie • 1926
Rag picker
Comrade X
Movie • 1940
Michael Bastakoff
Juarez
Movie • 1939
Camilo
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
Movie • 1957
Pepe the Janitor
Monster from British Hell
Movie • 2021
Dr. Lorentz
Alcatraz Island
Movie • 1937
The Flying Dutchman
Sabu and the Magic Ring
Movie • 1957
The Old Fakir
Road to Morocco
Movie • 1942
Hyder Khan
Mister Flow
Movie • 1936
Merlow
The Life of Emile Zola
Movie • 1937
Paul Cezanne
The Mistress of Atlantis
Movie • 1932
L'hetman de Jitomir (as Vl. Sokoloff)
Prince Woronzeff
Movie • 1934
Petroff
Katharina Knie
Movie • 1929
Julius, der Clown
Paris Underground
Movie • 1945
Undertaker
Kismet
Movie • 1931
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Movie • 1938
Popus
Crossroads
Movie • 1942
Carlos Le Duc (uncredited)
Farewell
Movie • 1930
The Baron
The Holy Flames
Movie • 1931
Dr. Harvester
Twilight for the Gods
Movie • 1958
Feodor Morris
The Threepenny Opera
Movie • 1931
Smith
Man on a String
Movie • 1960
Papa of Boris Mitrov
Die weiße Sonate
Movie • 1928
Violinvirtuose Dollhofer
Der Sohn der Hagar
Movie • 1927
Poleto
Their Son
Movie • 1929
Berry
Road to Home
Movie • 1945
Self (archive footage)
Mission to Moscow
Movie • 1943
Mikhail Kalinin, USSR president
Mr. Lucky
Movie • 1943
Greek Priest (uncredited)
A Royal Scandal
Movie • 1945
Malakoff
Life Is Ours
Movie • 1936
Un vieillard dans le cortège final
Don Quixote
Movie • 1933
Gypsy King
Mayerling
Movie • 1936
Chief of Police
Till We Meet Again
Movie • 1944
Cabeau
Haunted People
Movie • 1932
Morals at Midnight
Movie • 1930
Overseer
Strafsache van Geldern
Movie • 1932
Johnny Staccato
TV • 1959
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Gallegos
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
The Millionaire
TV • 1955
Uncle Jacques Monet
Thriller
TV • 1960
Papa Glockstein
Peter Gunn
TV • 1958
The Donna Reed Show
TV • 1958
The Alaskans
TV • 1959
The Rifleman
TV • 1958
Wire Service
TV • 1956
Prime Minister
Harrigan and Son
TV • 1960
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
Jake Bartosh
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Alf
Tightrope
TV • 1959
Maverick
TV • 1957
Pedro Rubio
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Father Tomas
Checkmate
TV • 1960
Pedro Moreno
Thriller
TV • 1960
The Janitor
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Uncle Fernaud
Playhouse 90
TV • 1956
Anselmo
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Guitarist (Ignacio)