Vladimir Sokoloff
Acting
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
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movieMonster from British Hell
2021
Dr. Lorentz
movieTaras Bulba
1962
Stepan Kanevsky
movieMr. Sardonicus
1961
Henryk Toleslawski
movieFive Fingers: The Judas Goat
1961
Peter Vestos
movieCimarron
1960
Jacob Krubeckoff
tvCheckmate
1960
Pedro Moreno
tvThriller
1960
Papa Glockstein / The Janitor
movieBeyond the Time Barrier
1960
The Supreme
movieMan on a String
1960
Papa of Boris Mitrov
tvThe Twilight Zone
1959
Gallegos / Father Tomas / Guitarist (Ignacio)
movieTwilight for the Gods
1958
Feodor Morris
tvMaverick
1957
Pedro Rubio
movieI Was a Teenage Werewolf
1957
Pepe the Janitor
movieMonster from Green Hell
1957
Dr. Lorentz
movieIstanbul
1957
Aziz Rakim
tvWire Service
1956
Prime Minister
tvPlayhouse 90
1956
Anselmo
movieWhile the City Sleeps
1956
George "Pop" Pilski
tvAlfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Uncle Fernaud
tvThe Millionaire
1955
Uncle Jacques Monet
tvCavalcade of America
1952
Jake Bartosh
movieMacao
1952
Kwan Sum Tang
movieThe Baron of Arizona
1950
Pepito Alvarez
movieTo the Ends of the Earth
1948
Commissioner Lum Chi Chow
movieA Scandal in Paris
1946
Uncle Hugo
movieTwo Smart People
1946
Jacques Dufour
movieScarlet Street
1945
Pop LeJon
movieParis Underground
1945
Undertaker
Road to Home
1945
Self (archive footage)
movieBack to Bataan
1945
Señor Buenaventura J. Bello
movieA Royal Scandal
1945
Malakoff
moviePassage to Marseille
1944
Grandpere
movieMr. Lucky
1943
Greek Priest (uncredited)
movieMission to Moscow
1943
Mikhail Kalinin, USSR president
movieRoad to Morocco
1942
Hyder Khan
movieCrossroads
1942
Carlos Le Duc (uncredited)
movieLove Crazy
1941
Dr. David Klugle
movieComrade X
1940
Michael Bastakoff
movieThe Real Glory
1939
The Datu
movieJuarez
1939
Camilo
movieSons of Liberty
1939
Jacob (uncredited)
movieSpawn of the North
1938
Dimitri
movieBlockade
1938
Basil
movieArsène Lupin Returns
1938
Ivan Pavloff
movieExpensive Husbands
1937
Herr Andrew Brenner
movieWest of Shanghai
1937
General Fu Shan
movieConquest
1937
Dying soldier
movieAlcatraz Island
1937
The Flying Dutchman
movieThe Life of Emile Zola
1937
Paul Cezanne
movieThe Lower Depths
1936
le vieux Kostileff
movieMister Flow
1936
Merlow
movieLife Is Ours
1936
Un vieillard dans le cortège final
movieUnder Western Eyes
1936
Le recteur
movieMayerling
1936
Chief of Police
movieLadies Lake
1934
Baron Dobbersberg
movieHigh and Low
1933
M. Berger
movieSong of the Streets
1933
Le père Schlamp
movieDon Quixote
1933
Gypsy King
movieQueen of Atlantis
1932
Graf Bielowski
movieThe Mistress of Atlantis
1932
L'hetman de Jitomir (as Vl. Sokoloff)
movieThe Holy Flames
1931
Dr. Harvester
movieThe 3 Penny Opera
1931
Smith, the Jailer
movieDarling of the Gods
1930
Boris Jussupoff
movieFarewell
1930
The Baron
movieMorals at Midnight
1930
Overseer
movieWestfront 1918
1930
Proviantmeister
movieThe Ship of Lost Men
1929
Grischa - the Cook
movieTheir Son
1929
Berry
movieKatharina Knie
1929
Julius, der Clown
Die weiße Sonate
1928
Violinvirtuose Dollhofer
movieThe Love of Jeanne Ney
1927
Zacharkiewicz
movieAdventures of a Ten Mark Note
1926
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