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
1962
- Taras Bulba as Stepan Kanevsky
1961
- Five Fingers: The Judas Goat as Peter Vestos
- Mr. Sardonicus as Henryk Toleslawski
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
- Tightrope
- The Alaskans
- Johnny Staccato
- For Whom the Bell Tolls as Anselmo
1958
- The Rifleman
- The Donna Reed Show
- Peter Gunn
- Twilight for the Gods as Feodor Morris
1957
- Maverick as Pedro Rubio
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- I Was a Teenage Werewolf as Pepe the Janitor
- Monster from Green Hell as Dr. Lorentz
- Istanbul as Aziz Rakim
- 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
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Uncle Fernaud
- The Millionaire as Uncle Jacques Monet
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
- A Scandal in Paris as Uncle Hugo
- Cloak and Dagger as Polda
- 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
- Paris Underground as Undertaker
- Road to Home as Self (archive footage)
1944
- Passage to Marseille as Grandpere
- Till We Meet Again as Cabeau
- The Conspirators as Miguel
1943
- For Whom the Bell Tolls as Anselmo
- Mr. Lucky as Greek Priest (uncredited)
- Mission to Moscow as Mikhail Kalinin, USSR president
1942
- Crossroads as Carlos Le Duc (uncredited)
- Road to Morocco as Hyder Khan
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
- The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse as Popus
- Spawn of the North as Dimitri
- Arsène Lupin Returns as Ivan Pavloff
- Blockade as Basil
1937
- The Life of Emile Zola as Paul Cezanne
- Beg, Borrow or Steal as Sascha
- Expensive Husbands as Herr Andrew Brenner
- Conquest as Dying soldier
- Alcatraz Island as The Flying Dutchman
- West of Shanghai as General Fu Shan
1936
- Mayerling as Chief of Police
- Under Western Eyes as Le recteur
- Life Is Ours as Un vieillard dans le cortège final
- The Lower Depths as le vieux Kostileff
- Mister Flow as Merlow
1935
- Le secret des Woronzeff as Petroff
1934
- Ladies Lake as Baron Dobbersberg
- Prince Woronzeff as Petroff
1933
- High and Low as M. Berger
- Don Quixote as Gypsy King
- Song of the Streets as Le père Schlamp
1932
- Queen of Atlantis as Graf Bielowski
- Strafsache van Geldern as Armenarzt
- The Mistress of Atlantis as L'hetman de Jitomir (as Vl. Sokoloff)
- Haunted People
1931
- Kismet
- The 3 Penny Opera as Smith, the Jailer
- The Threepenny Opera as Smith
- The Holy Flames as Dr. Harvester
- Hell on Earth as Lewin
1930
- Westfront 1918 as Proviantmeister
- Darling of the Gods as Boris Jussupoff
- Farewell as The Baron
- Morals at Midnight as Overseer
1929
- The Ship of Lost Men as Grischa - the Cook
- Their Son as Berry
- 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