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.
Movie | Horrible Horror | Pepe in 'I was a Teenage Werewolf' | 1986-01-01 |
Movie | Taras Bulba | Stepan Kanevsky | 1962-11-21 |
Movie | Mr. Sardonicus | Henryk Toleslawski | 1961-10-08 |
Movie | Beyond the Time Barrier | The Supreme | 1960-09-08 |
Movie | Man on a String | Papa of Boris Mitrov | 1960-05-20 |
Series | Thriller | Unknown | 1960-09-13 |
Movie | The Magnificent Seven | Old man | 1960-10-12 |
Movie | Cimarron | Jacob Krubeckoff | 1960-12-01 |
Series | Checkmate | Pedro Moreno | 1960-09-17 |
Series | Harrigan and Son | Unknown | 1960-10-14 |
Series | Tightrope | Unknown | 1959-09-08 |
Series | Johnny Staccato | Unknown | 1959-09-10 |
Series | Adventures in Paradise | Unknown | 1959-10-05 |
Series | The Twilight Zone | Gallegos | 1959-10-02 |
Series | The Alaskans | Unknown | 1959-10-04 |
Series | Peter Gunn | Unknown | 1958-09-22 |
Movie | Twilight for the Gods | Feodor Morris | 1958-08-04 |
Series | The Donna Reed Show | Unknown | 1958-09-24 |
Series | The Rifleman | Unknown | 1958-09-30 |
Movie | Istanbul | Aziz Rakim | 1957-01-23 |
Movie | Monster from Green Hell | Dr. Lorentz | 1957-05-17 |
Movie | I Was a Teenage Werewolf | Pepe the Janitor | 1957-06-19 |
Series | Maverick | Unknown | 1957-09-22 |
Series | Have Gun, Will Travel | Unknown | 1957-09-14 |
Movie | While the City Sleeps | George "Pop" Pilski | 1956-04-19 |
Series | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Unknown | 1956-10-05 |
Series | Wire Service | Unknown | 1956-10-04 |
Series | The Millionaire | Unknown | 1955-01-19 |
Movie | Macao | Kwan Sum Tang | 1952-04-11 |
Series | Cavalcade of America | Unknown | 1952-10-01 |
Movie | The Baron of Arizona | Pepito Alvarez | 1950-03-04 |
Movie | To the Ends of the Earth | Commissioner Lum Chi Chow | 1948-02-07 |
Movie | Two Smart People | Jacques Dufour | 1946-06-04 |
Movie | Cloak and Dagger | Polda | 1946-09-28 |
Movie | A Scandal in Paris | Uncle Hugo | 1946-07-19 |
Movie | A Royal Scandal | Malakoff | 1945-03-26 |
Movie | Road to Home | Self (archive footage) | 1945-07-04 |
Movie | Back to Bataan | Señor Buenaventura J. Bello | 1945-05-30 |
Movie | Paris Underground | Undertaker | 1945-10-18 |
Movie | Scarlet Street | Pop LeJon | 1945-12-25 |
Movie | Passage to Marseille | Grandpere | 1944-03-11 |
Movie | The Conspirators | Miguel | 1944-10-24 |
Movie | Till We Meet Again | Cabeau | 1944-08-30 |
Movie | Mr. Lucky | Greek Priest (uncredited) | 1943-07-01 |
Movie | Mission to Moscow | Mikhail Kalinin, USSR president | 1943-04-29 |
Movie | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Anselmo | 1943-07-12 |
Movie | Crossroads | Carlos Le Duc (uncredited) | 1942-07-23 |
Movie | Road to Morocco | Hyder Khan | 1942-11-10 |
Movie | Love Crazy | Dr. David Klugle | 1941-05-23 |
Movie | Comrade X | Michael Bastakoff | 1940-12-13 |
Movie | The Real Glory | The Datu | 1939-09-29 |
Movie | Sons of Liberty | Jacob (uncredited) | 1939-05-20 |
Movie | Juarez | Camilo | 1939-06-10 |
Movie | Arsène Lupin Returns | Ivan Pavloff | 1938-02-25 |
Movie | Blockade | Basil | 1938-06-17 |
Movie | The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse | Popus | 1938-07-20 |
Movie | Spawn of the North | Dimitri | 1938-08-26 |
Movie | The Life of Emile Zola | Paul Cezanne | 1937-09-09 |
Movie | Alcatraz Island | The Flying Dutchman | 1937-10-13 |
Movie | Conquest | Dying soldier | 1937-10-22 |
Movie | Beg, Borrow or Steal | Sascha | 1937-12-03 |
Movie | Expensive Husbands | Herr Andrew Brenner | 1937-11-27 |
Movie | West of Shanghai | Chow Fu-Shan | 1937-10-30 |
Movie | Under Western Eyes | Le recteur | 1936-03-20 |
Movie | Life Is Ours | Un vieillard dans le cortège final | 1936-04-07 |
Movie | Mayerling | Chief of Police | 1936-01-31 |
Movie | The Lower Depths | le vieux Kostileff | 1936-12-11 |
Movie | Mister Flow | Merlow | 1936-12-02 |
Movie | Le secret des Woronzeff | 1935-02-01 | |
Movie | Prince Woronzeff | Petroff | 1934-10-01 |
Movie | Ladies Lake | Baron Dobbersberg | 1934-05-18 |
Movie | Don Quixote | Gypsy King | 1933-03-25 |
Movie | Song of the Streets | Le père Schlamp | 1933-07-26 |
Movie | High and Low | M. Berger | 1933-12-08 |
Movie | The Mistress of Atlantis | L'hetman de Jitomir (as Vl. Sokoloff) | 1932-06-09 |
Movie | Queen of Atlantis | Graf Bielowski | 1932-06-28 |
Movie | Haunted People | 1932-12-06 | |
Movie | Kismet | 1931-01-31 | |
Movie | The 3 Penny Opera | Smith, the Jailer | 1931-02-18 |
Movie | The Threepenny Opera | Smith | 1931-06-08 |
Movie | The Holy Flames | Dr. Harvester | 1931-05-02 |
Movie | Hell on Earth | Lewin | 1931-12-10 |
Movie | Westfront 1918 | Proviantmeister | 1930-05-23 |
Movie | Darling of the Gods | Boris Jussupoff | 1930-10-13 |
Movie | Farewell | The Baron | 1930-08-25 |
Movie | Katharina Knie | Julius, der Clown | 1929-02-24 |
Movie | The Ship of Lost Men | Grischa - the Cook | 1929-09-17 |
Movie | Sensation im Wintergarten | Berry | 1929-09-08 |
Movie | Die weiße Sonate | Violinvirtuose Dollhofer | 1928-01-01 |
Movie | Der Sohn der Hagar | Poleto | 1927-03-24 |
Movie | The Love of Jeanne Ney | Zacharkiewicz | 1927-12-06 |