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. 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.
Acted in 93
1960s
- 1962
- 1961
Mr. Sardonicus
Henryk Toleslawski
Five Fingers: The Judas Goat
Peter Vestos
- 1960
Harrigan and Son
TV
Man on a String
Papa of Boris Mitrov
1950s
- 1959
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Anselmo
- 1958
Twilight for the Gods
Feodor Morris
- 1957
Sabu and the Magic Ring
The Old Fakir
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
Pepe the Janitor
- 1956
While the City Sleeps
George "Pop" Pilski
- 1955
- 1952
- 1950
1940s
- 1948
To the Ends of the Earth
Commissioner Lum Chi Chow
- 1946
Cloak and Dagger
Polda
Two Smart People
Jacques Dufour
- 1945
Paris Underground
Undertaker
A Royal Scandal
Malakoff
- 1944
The Conspirators
Miguel
Till We Meet Again
Cabeau
- 1943
Mission to Moscow
Mikhail Kalinin, USSR president
- 1942
Road to Morocco
Hyder Khan
Crossroads
Carlos Le Duc (uncredited)
- 1941
- 1940
Comrade X
Michael Bastakoff
1930s
- 1939
Sons of Liberty
Jacob (uncredited)
- 1938
Spawn of the North
Dimitri
Blockade
Basil
Arsène Lupin Returns
Ivan Pavloff
- 1937
Beg, Borrow or Steal
Sascha
Expensive Husbands
Herr Andrew Brenner
West of Shanghai
General Fu Shan
Conquest
Dying soldier
Alcatraz Island
The Flying Dutchman
- 1936
The Lower Depths
le vieux Kostileff
Mister Flow
Merlow
Life Is Ours
Un vieillard dans le cortège final
Under Western Eyes
Le recteur
- 1935
Le secret des Woronzeff
Petroff
- 1934
- 1933
High and Low
M. Berger
Song of the Streets
Le père Schlamp
Don Quixote
Gypsy King
- 1932
Haunted People
Movie
Strafsache van Geldern
Armenarzt
Queen of Atlantis
Graf Bielowski
The Mistress of Atlantis
L'hetman de Jitomir (as Vl. Sokoloff)
- 1931
Hell on Earth
Lewin
The Threepenny Opera
Smith
The Holy Flames
Dr. Harvester
Kismet
Movie
- 1930
Darling of the Gods
Boris Jussupoff
Farewell
The Baron
Morals at Midnight
Overseer
1920s
- 1929
The Ship of Lost Men
Grischa - the Cook
Their Son
Berry
Katharina Knie
Julius, der Clown
- 1927
The Love of Jeanne Ney
Zacharkiewicz
- 1926
Adventures of a Ten Mark Note
Rag picker