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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Horrible Horror | Pepe in 'I was a Teenage Werewolf' | 1986-01-01 |
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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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Beyond the Time Barrier | The Supreme | 1960-09-08 |
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The Magnificent Seven | Old man | 1960-10-12 |
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Man on a String | Papa of Boris Mitrov | 1960-05-20 |
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Cimarron | Jacob Krubeckoff | 1960-12-01 |
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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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Monster from Green Hell | Dr. Lorentz | 1957-05-17 |
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Istanbul | Aziz Rakim | 1957-01-23 |
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I Was a Teenage Werewolf | Pepe the Janitor | 1957-06-19 |
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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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Two Smart People | Jacques Dufour | 1946-06-04 |
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A Scandal in Paris | Uncle Hugo | 1946-07-19 |
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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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Road to Home | Self (archive footage) | 1945-07-04 |
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A Royal Scandal | Malakoff | 1945-03-26 |
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Back to Bataan | Señor Buenaventura J. Bello | 1945-05-30 |
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Scarlet Street | Pop LeJon | 1945-12-25 |
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The Conspirators | Miguel | 1944-10-24 |
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Passage to Marseille | Grandpere | 1944-03-11 |
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Till We Meet Again | Cabeau | 1944-08-30 |
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For Whom the Bell Tolls | Anselmo | 1943-07-12 |
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Mission to Moscow | Mikhail Kalinin, USSR president | 1943-04-29 |
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Mr. Lucky | Greek Priest (uncredited) | 1943-07-01 |
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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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The Real Glory | The Datu | 1939-09-29 |
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Juarez | Camilo | 1939-06-10 |
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Sons of Liberty | Jacob (uncredited) | 1939-05-20 |
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Arsène Lupin Returns | Ivan Pavloff | 1938-02-25 |
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Blockade | Basil | 1938-06-17 |
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse | Popus | 1938-07-20 |
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Spawn of the North | Dimitri | 1938-08-26 |
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West of Shanghai | Chow Fu-Shan | 1937-10-30 |
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The Life of Emile Zola | Paul Cezanne | 1937-09-09 |
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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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Alcatraz Island | The Flying Dutchman | 1937-10-13 |
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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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Les Bas-fonds | le vieux Kostileff | 1936-12-11 |
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Mister Flow | Merlow | 1936-12-02 |
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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 | 1935-02-01 | |
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Fürst Woronzeff | Petroff | 1934-10-01 |
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Lac aux dames | Baron Dobbersberg | 1934-05-18 |
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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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Die Herrin von Atlantis | Graf Bielowski | 1932-06-28 |
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L'Atlantide | L'hetman de Jitomir (as Vl. Sokoloff) | 1932-06-09 |
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Gehetzte Menschen | 1932-12-06 | |
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Niemandsland | Lewin | 1931-12-10 |
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L'Opéra de quat'sous | Smith | 1931-06-08 |
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Die 3 Groschen-Oper | Smith, the Jailer | 1931-02-18 |
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Kismet | 1931-01-31 | |
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Die heilige Flamme | Dr. Harvester | 1931-05-02 |
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Liebling der Götter | Boris Jussupoff | 1930-10-13 |
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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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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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Der Sohn der Hagar | Poleto | 1927-03-24 |
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Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney | Zacharkiewicz | 1927-12-06 |
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Die Abenteuer eines Zehnmarkscheines | Rag picker | 1926-10-28 |
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