Vladimir Sokoloff
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1889-12-26
Day of Death
1962-02-15 (72 years old)
Place of Birth
Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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.
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Known For
Acting
(2021)
Monster from British Hell
as Dr. Lorentz
(2010)
(1962)
Taras Bulba
as Stepan Kanevsky
(1961)
Mr. Sardonicus
as Henryk Toleslawski
(1961)
Five Fingers: The Judas Goat
as Peter Vestos
(1960)
The Magnificent Seven
as Old Man
(1960)
Cimarron
as Jacob Krubeckoff
(1960)
Beyond the Time Barrier
as The Supreme
(1960)
Man on a String
as Papa of Boris Mitrov
(1959)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Anselmo
(1958)
Twilight for the Gods
as Feodor Morris
(1957)
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
as Pepe the Janitor
(1957)
Monster from Green Hell
as Dr. Lorentz
(1957)
Istanbul
as Aziz Rakim
(1957)
Sabu and the Magic Ring
as The Old Fakir
(1956)
While the City Sleeps
as George "Pop" Pilski
(1952)
Macao
as Kwan Sum Tang
(1950)
The Baron of Arizona
as Pepito Alvarez
(1948)
To the Ends of the Earth
as Commissioner Lum Chi Chow
(1946)
Cloak and Dagger
as Polda
(1946)
A Scandal in Paris
as Uncle Hugo
(1946)
Two Smart People
as Jacques Dufour
(1945)
Scarlet Street
as Pop LeJon
(1945)
Back to Bataan
as Señor Buenaventura J. Bello
(1945)
A Royal Scandal
as Malakoff
(1945)
Road to Home
as Self (archive footage)
(1945)
Paris Underground
as Undertaker
(1944)
Passage to Marseille
as Grandpere
(1944)
The Conspirators
as Miguel
(1944)
Till We Meet Again
as Cabeau
(1943)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Anselmo
(1943)
Mission to Moscow
as Mikhail Kalinin, USSR president
(1943)
Mr. Lucky
as Greek Priest (uncredited)
(1942)
Road to Morocco
as Hyder Khan
(1942)
Crossroads
as Carlos Le Duc (uncredited)
(1941)
Love Crazy
as Dr. David Klugle
(1940)
Comrade X
as Michael Bastakoff
(1939)
Juarez
as Camilo
(1939)
The Real Glory
as The Datu
(1939)
Sons of Liberty
as Jacob (uncredited)
(1938)
Blockade
as Basil
(1938)
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
as Popus
(1938)
Arsène Lupin Returns
as Ivan Pavloff
(1938)
Spawn of the North
as Dimitri
(1937)
The Life of Emile Zola
as Paul Cezanne
(1937)
Conquest
as Dying soldier
(1937)
Expensive Husbands
as Herr Andrew Brenner
(1937)
Alcatraz Island
as The Flying Dutchman
(1937)
West of Shanghai
as General Fu Shan
(1937)
Beg, Borrow or Steal
as Sascha
(1936)
The Lower Depths
as le vieux Kostileff
(1936)
Mayerling
as Chief of Police
(1936)
Life Is Ours
as Un vieillard dans le cortège final
(1936)
Mister Flow
as Merlow
(1936)
Under Western Eyes
as Le recteur
(1935)
Le secret des Woronzeff
as Petroff
(1934)
Ladies Lake
as Baron Dobbersberg
(1934)
Prince Woronzeff
as Petroff
(1933)
Don Quixote
as Gypsy King
(1933)
Song of the Streets
as Le père Schlamp
(1933)
High and Low
as M. Berger
(1932)
Queen of Atlantis
as Graf Bielowski
(1932)
(1932)
The Mistress of Atlantis
as L'hetman de Jitomir (as Vl. Sokoloff)
(1932)
(1931)
The 3 Penny Opera
as Smith, the Jailer
(1931)
The Threepenny Opera
as Smith
(1931)
(1931)
Hell on Earth
as Lewin
(1931)
The Holy Flames
as Dr. Harvester
(1930)
Westfront 1918
as Proviantmeister
(1930)
Darling of the Gods
as Boris Jussupoff
(1930)
Farewell
as The Baron
(1930)
Morals at Midnight
as Overseer
(1929)
Katharina Knie
as Julius, der Clown
(1929)
The Ship of Lost Men
as Grischa - the Cook
(1929)
Sensation im Wintergarten
as Berry
(1928)
Die weiße Sonate
as Violinvirtuose Dollhofer
(1927)
The Love of Jeanne Ney
as Zacharkiewicz
(1927)
Der Sohn der Hagar
as Poleto
(1926)
Adventures of a Ten Mark Note
as Rag picker