Vladimir Sokoloff
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.
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Known for
The Rifleman
The Twilight Zone
Gallegos
The Twilight Zone
Father Tomas
The Twilight Zone
Guitarist (Ignacio)
Have Gun, Will Travel
Maverick
Pedro Rubio
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Alf
The Magnificent Seven
Old Man
The Donna Reed Show
Alcatraz Island
The Flying Dutchman
Don Quixote
Gypsy King
Thriller
Papa Glockstein
Thriller
The Janitor
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Uncle Fernaud
Taras Bulba
Stepan Kanevsky
Peter Gunn
Macao
Kwan Sum Tang
Scarlet Street
Pop LeJon
Katharina Knie
Julius, der Clown
Cavalcade of America
Jake Bartosh
Checkmate
Pedro Moreno
The Millionaire
Uncle Jacques Monet
Mayerling
Chief of Police
Paris Underground
Undertaker
Juarez
Camilo
Farewell
The Baron
The Love of Jeanne Ney
Zacharkiewicz
Mister Flow
Merlow
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Anselmo
The Conspirators
Miguel
Mr. Sardonicus
Henryk Toleslawski
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
Pepe the Janitor
Cimarron
Jacob Krubeckoff
Blockade
Basil
Back to Bataan
Señor Buenaventura J. Bello
The Life of Emile Zola
Paul Cezanne
Monster from Green Hell
Dr. Lorentz
Passage to Marseille
Grandpere
Till We Meet Again
Cabeau
Cloak and Dagger
Polda
Haunted People
Hell on Earth
Lewin
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Popus
The Alaskans
A Scandal in Paris
Uncle Hugo
Playhouse 90
Anselmo
Conquest
Dying soldier
A Royal Scandal
Malakoff
Johnny Staccato
Beyond the Time Barrier
The Supreme
Spawn of the North
Dimitri
Road to Morocco
Hyder Khan
Ladies Lake
Baron Dobbersberg
The Lower Depths
le vieux Kostileff
Kismet
Queen of Atlantis
Graf Bielowski
The Ship of Lost Men
Grischa - the Cook
To the Ends of the Earth
Commissioner Lum Chi Chow
Twilight for the Gods
Feodor Morris
Under Western Eyes
Le recteur
Expensive Husbands
Herr Andrew Brenner
Arsène Lupin Returns
Ivan Pavloff
The Holy Flames
Dr. Harvester
West of Shanghai
General Fu Shan
Mission to Moscow
Mikhail Kalinin, USSR president
Monster from British Hell
Dr. Lorentz
Life Is Ours
Un vieillard dans le cortège final
Adventures of a Ten Mark Note
Rag picker
Tightrope
Two Smart People
Jacques Dufour
Mr. Lucky
Greek Priest (uncredited)
Sons of Liberty
Jacob (uncredited)
The Baron of Arizona
Pepito Alvarez
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Anselmo
Their Son
Berry
Hollywood Classic Special
Le secret des Woronzeff
Petroff
Song of the Streets
Le père Schlamp
The Real Glory
The Datu
Man on a String
Papa of Boris Mitrov
While the City Sleeps
George "Pop" Pilski
Morals at Midnight
Overseer
Road to Home
Self (archive footage)
Five Fingers: The Judas Goat
Peter Vestos
Comrade X
Michael Bastakoff
Istanbul
Aziz Rakim
High and Low
M. Berger
Wire Service
Prime Minister
Harrigan and Son
The Threepenny Opera
Smith
The 3 Penny Opera
Smith, the Jailer
Darling of the Gods
Boris Jussupoff
Die weiße Sonate
Violinvirtuose Dollhofer
Westfront 1918
Proviantmeister
Sabu and the Magic Ring
The Old Fakir
Love Crazy
Dr. David Klugle
Crossroads
Carlos Le Duc (uncredited)
Strafsache van Geldern
Beg, Borrow or Steal
Sascha
Der Sohn der Hagar
Poleto
The Mistress of Atlantis
L'hetman de Jitomir (as Vl. Sokoloff)
Prince Woronzeff
Petroff