1889-12-26 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.
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Monster from British Hell | Dr. Lorentz | 2021-06-15 |
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Hollywood Classic Special | 2010-01-28 | |
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Taras Bulba | Stepan Kanevsky | 1962-11-21 |
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Five Fingers: The Judas Goat | Peter Vestos | 1961-10-01 |
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Mr. Sardonicus | Henryk Toleslawski | 1961-10-08 |
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Cimarron | Jacob Krubeckoff | 1960-12-01 |
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Beyond the Time Barrier | The Supreme | 1960-09-08 |
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Man on a String | Papa of Boris Mitrov | 1960-03-25 |
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The Magnificent Seven | Old Man | 1960-10-12 |
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For Whom the Bell Tolls | Anselmo | 1959-03-12 |
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Twilight for the Gods | Feodor Morris | 1958-08-04 |
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Istanbul | Aziz Rakim | 1957-01-23 |
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Monster from Green Hell | Dr. Lorentz | 1957-05-17 |
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I Was a Teenage Werewolf | Pepe the Janitor | 1957-06-19 |
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Sabu and the Magic Ring | The Old Fakir | 1957-11-24 |
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While the City Sleeps | George "Pop" Pilski | 1956-04-19 |
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Macao | Kwan Sum Tang | 1952-04-11 |
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The Baron of Arizona | Pepito Alvarez | 1950-03-04 |
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To the Ends of the Earth | Commissioner Lum Chi Chow | 1948-02-07 |
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A Scandal in Paris | Uncle Hugo | 1946-07-19 |
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Two Smart People | Jacques Dufour | 1946-06-04 |
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Cloak and Dagger | Polda | 1946-09-28 |
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Paris Underground | Undertaker | 1945-10-18 |
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Scarlet Street | Pop LeJon | 1945-12-25 |
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Back to Bataan | Señor Buenaventura J. Bello | 1945-05-30 |
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A Royal Scandal | Malakoff | 1945-03-26 |
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Road to Home | Self (archive footage) | 1945-07-04 |
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Till We Meet Again | Cabeau | 1944-08-30 |
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Passage to Marseille | Grandpere | 1944-03-11 |
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The Conspirators | Miguel | 1944-10-24 |
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For Whom the Bell Tolls | Anselmo | 1943-07-12 |
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Mr. Lucky | Greek Priest (uncredited) | 1943-07-01 |
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Mission to Moscow | Mikhail Kalinin, USSR president | 1943-04-29 |
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Road to Morocco | Hyder Khan | 1942-11-10 |
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Crossroads | Carlos Le Duc (uncredited) | 1942-07-23 |
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Love Crazy | Dr. David Klugle | 1941-05-23 |
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Comrade X | Michael Bastakoff | 1940-12-13 |
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Juarez | Camilo | 1939-06-10 |
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The Real Glory | The Datu | 1939-09-29 |
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Sons of Liberty | Jacob (uncredited) | 1939-05-20 |
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Blockade | Basil | 1938-06-17 |
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Spawn of the North | Dimitri | 1938-08-26 |
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Arsène Lupin Returns | Ivan Pavloff | 1938-02-25 |
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse | Popus | 1938-07-20 |
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The Life of Emile Zola | Paul Cezanne | 1937-09-09 |
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Alcatraz Island | The Flying Dutchman | 1937-10-13 |
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West of Shanghai | General Fu Shan | 1937-10-30 |
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Expensive Husbands | Herr Andrew Brenner | 1937-11-27 |
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Beg, Borrow or Steal | Sascha | 1937-12-03 |
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Conquest | Dying soldier | 1937-10-22 |
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Les Bas-fonds | le vieux Kostileff | 1936-12-11 |
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Mister Flow | Merlow | 1936-12-02 |
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Mayerling | Chief of Police | 1936-01-31 |
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Sous les yeux d'occident | Le recteur | 1936-03-20 |
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La vie est à nous | Un vieillard dans le cortège final | 1936-04-07 |
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Le secret des Woronzeff | Petroff | 1935-02-01 |
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Lac aux dames | Baron Dobbersberg | 1934-05-18 |
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Fürst Woronzeff | Petroff | 1934-10-01 |
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Don Quichotte | Gypsy King | 1933-03-25 |
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Du haut en bas | M. Berger | 1933-12-08 |
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Dans les Rues | Le père Schlamp | 1933-07-26 |
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Strafsache van Geldern | 1932-08-22 | |
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Die Herrin von Atlantis | Graf Bielowski | 1932-06-28 |
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Gehetzte Menschen | 1932-12-06 | |
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L'Atlantide | L'hetman de Jitomir (as Vl. Sokoloff) | 1932-06-09 |
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Niemandsland | Lewin | 1931-12-10 |
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Kismet | 1931-01-31 | |
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L'Opéra de quat'sous | Smith | 1931-06-08 |
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Die heilige Flamme | Dr. Harvester | 1931-05-02 |
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Die 3 Groschen-Oper | Smith, the Jailer | 1931-02-18 |
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Westfront 1918: Vier von der Infanterie | Proviantmeister | 1930-05-23 |
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Moral um Mitternacht | Overseer | 1930-06-20 |
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Abschied | The Baron | 1930-08-25 |
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Liebling der Götter | Boris Jussupoff | 1930-10-13 |
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Sensation im Wintergarten | Berry | 1929-09-08 |
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Das Schiff der verlorenen Menschen | Grischa - the Cook | 1929-09-17 |
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Katharina Knie | Julius, der Clown | 1929-02-24 |
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Die weiße Sonate | Violinvirtuose Dollhofer | 1928-01-01 |
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Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney | Zacharkiewicz | 1927-12-06 |
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Der Sohn der Hagar | Poleto | 1927-03-24 |
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Die Abenteuer eines Zehnmarkscheines | Rag picker | 1926-10-28 |
