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