Vladimir Sokoloff
Born: 1889-12-26 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Died: 1962-02-15
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2021
- Monster from British Hell as Dr. Lorentz
1962
- Taras Bulba as Stepan Kanevsky
1961
- Mr. Sardonicus as Henryk Toleslawski
- Five Fingers: The Judas Goat as Peter Vestos
1960
- Thriller as Papa Glockstein
- Checkmate as Pedro Moreno
- The Magnificent Seven as Old Man
- Harrigan and Son
- Cimarron as Jacob Krubeckoff
- Man on a String as Papa of Boris Mitrov
- Beyond the Time Barrier as The Supreme
1959
- The Twilight Zone as Gallegos
- The Alaskans
- Tightrope
- Johnny Staccato
- For Whom the Bell Tolls as Anselmo
1958
- The Rifleman
- Peter Gunn
- The Donna Reed Show
- Twilight for the Gods as Feodor Morris
1957
- Maverick as Pedro Rubio
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- Istanbul as Aziz Rakim
- I Was a Teenage Werewolf as Pepe the Janitor
- Monster from Green Hell as Dr. Lorentz
- Sabu and the Magic Ring as The Old Fakir
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Alf
- Playhouse 90 as Anselmo
- Wire Service as Prime Minister
- While the City Sleeps as George "Pop" Pilski
1955
- The Millionaire as Uncle Jacques Monet
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Uncle Fernaud
1952
- Cavalcade of America as Jake Bartosh
- 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
- A Scandal in Paris as Uncle Hugo
- Two Smart People as Jacques Dufour
1945
- Scarlet Street as Pop LeJon
- Back to Bataan as Señor Buenaventura J. Bello
- A Royal Scandal as Malakoff
- Road to Home as Self (archive footage)
- Paris Underground as Undertaker
1944
- Passage to Marseille as Grandpere
- The Conspirators as Miguel
- Till We Meet Again as Cabeau
1943
- Mr. Lucky as Greek Priest (uncredited)
- For Whom the Bell Tolls as Anselmo
- Mission to Moscow as Mikhail Kalinin, USSR president
1942
- Road to Morocco as Hyder Khan
- Crossroads as Carlos Le Duc (uncredited)
1941
- Love Crazy as Dr. David Klugle
1940
- Comrade X as Michael Bastakoff
1939
- Juarez as Camilo
- The Real Glory as The Datu
- Sons of Liberty as Jacob (uncredited)
1938
- Spawn of the North as Dimitri
- The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse as Popus
- Arsène Lupin Returns as Ivan Pavloff
- Blockade as Basil
1937
- Expensive Husbands as Herr Andrew Brenner
- The Life of Emile Zola as Paul Cezanne
- Beg, Borrow or Steal as Sascha
- Conquest as Dying soldier
- Alcatraz Island as The Flying Dutchman
- West of Shanghai as General Fu Shan
1936
- The Lower Depths as le vieux Kostileff
- Mayerling as Chief of Police
- Mister Flow as Merlow
- Under Western Eyes as Le recteur
- Life Is Ours as Un vieillard dans le cortège final
1935
- Le secret des Woronzeff as Petroff
1934
- Ladies Lake as Baron Dobbersberg
- Prince Woronzeff as Petroff
1933
- Don Quixote as Gypsy King
- High and Low as M. Berger
- Song of the Streets as Le père Schlamp
1932
- Strafsache van Geldern
- The Mistress of Atlantis as L'hetman de Jitomir (as Vl. Sokoloff)
- Queen of Atlantis as Graf Bielowski
- Haunted People
1931
- Kismet
- The 3 Penny Opera as Smith, the Jailer
- The Threepenny Opera as Smith
- Hell on Earth as Lewin
- The Holy Flames as Dr. Harvester
1930
- Westfront 1918 as Proviantmeister
- Darling of the Gods as Boris Jussupoff
- Farewell as The Baron
- Morals at Midnight as Overseer
1929
- Their Son as Berry
- The Ship of Lost Men as Grischa - the Cook
- Katharina Knie as Julius, der Clown
1928
- Die weiße Sonate as Violinvirtuose Dollhofer
1927
- The Love of Jeanne Ney as Zacharkiewicz
- Der Sohn der Hagar as Poleto
1926
- Adventures of a Ten Mark Note as Rag picker