Vladimir Sokoloff
78 movies · 18 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Dec 26, 1889
- Died
- Feb 15, 1962 (age 72)
- Place of birth
- Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
- Also known as
- Wladimir Sokoloff · Wladimir Sokolow · Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sokoloff · Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Соколо́в
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.
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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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Profiles IMDb
Known for
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★ 7.5 The Magnificent Seven
1960 · Film
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★ 8.5 The Twilight Zone
1959 · TV
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★ 7.6 Scarlet Street
1945 · Film
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★ 7.8 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · TV
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★ 6.5 For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943 · Film
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★ 6.7 The Life of Emile Zola
1937 · Film
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★ 6.9 While the City Sleeps
1956 · Film
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★ 6.3 Taras Bulba
1962 · Film
Vladimir Sokoloff: movies and TV shows
Acting (96)
- 1962 Taras Bulba
as Stepan Kanevsky
- 1961 Mr. Sardonicus
as Henryk Toleslawski
- 1961 Five Fingers: The Judas Goat
as Peter Vestos
- 1960 Cimarron
as Jacob Krubeckoff
- 1960
- 1960 The Magnificent Seven
as Old Man
- 1960
- 1960
- 1960 Beyond the Time Barrier
as The Supreme
- 1960 Man on a String
as Papa of Boris Mitrov
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959 For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Anselmo
- 1958
- 1958
- 1958
- 1958 Twilight for the Gods
as Feodor Morris
- 1957 Sabu and the Magic Ring
as The Old Fakir
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957 I Was a Teenage Werewolf
as Pepe the Janitor
- 1957 Monster from Green Hell
as Dr. Lorentz
- 1957 Istanbul
as Aziz Rakim
- 1956
- 1956
- 1956
- 1956 While the City Sleeps
as George "Pop" Pilski
- 1955
- 1955
- 1952
- 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 Paris Underground
as Undertaker
- 1945 Back to Bataan
as Señor Buenaventura J. Bello
- 1945 A Royal Scandal
as Malakoff
- 1944 The Conspirators
as Miguel
- 1944 Till We Meet Again
as Cabeau
- 1944 Passage to Marseille
as Grandpere
- 1943 For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Anselmo
- 1943 Mr. Lucky
as Greek Priest (uncredited)
- 1943 Mission to Moscow
as Mikhail Kalinin, USSR president
- 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 The Real Glory
as The Datu
- 1939 Juarez
as Camilo
- 1939 Sons of Liberty
as Jacob (uncredited)
- 1938 Spawn of the North
as Dimitri
- 1938 The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
as Popus
- 1938 Blockade
as Basil
- 1938 Arsène Lupin Returns
as Ivan Pavloff
- 1937 Beg, Borrow or Steal
as Sascha
- 1937 Expensive Husbands
as Herr Andrew Brenner
- 1937 West of Shanghai
as General Fu Shan
- 1937 Conquest
as Dying soldier
- 1937 Alcatraz Island
as The Flying Dutchman
- 1937 The Life of Emile Zola
as Paul Cezanne
- 1936 The Lower Depths
as le vieux Kostileff
- 1936 Mister Flow
as Merlow
- 1936 Life Is Ours
as Un vieillard dans le cortège final
- 1936 Under Western Eyes
as Le recteur
- 1936 Mayerling
as Chief of Police
- 1935 Le secret des Woronzeff
as Petroff
- 1934 Prince Woronzeff
as Petroff
- 1934 Ladies Lake
as Baron Dobbersberg
- 1933 High and Low
as M. Berger
- 1933 Song of the Streets
as Le père Schlamp
- 1933 Don Quixote
as Gypsy King
- 1932
- 1932 Strafsache van Geldern
as Armenarzt
- 1932 Queen of Atlantis
as Graf Bielowski
- 1932 The Mistress of Atlantis
as L'hetman de Jitomir (as Vl. Sokoloff)
- 1931 Hell on Earth
as Lewin
- 1931 The Threepenny Opera
as Smith
- 1931 The Holy Flames
as Dr. Harvester
- 1931 The 3 Penny Opera
as Smith, the Jailer
- 1931
- 1930 Darling of the Gods
as Boris Jussupoff
- 1930 Farewell
as The Baron
- 1930 Morals at Midnight
as Overseer
- 1930 Westfront 1918
as Proviantmeister
- 1929 The Ship of Lost Men
as Grischa - the Cook
- 1929 Their Son
as Berry
- 1929 Katharina Knie
as Julius, der Clown
- 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
Talk shows and appearances (1)
- 1945