Vladimir Sokoloff
Known for Acting · 98 credits
- Born
- 1889-12-26
- Died
- 1962-02-15
- Place of birth
- Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
- Also known as
- Wladimir Sokoloff · Wladimir Sokolow · Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sokoloff · Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Соколо́в · Waldemar Sokoloff
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).
Known For
TV Shows (18)
The Rifleman
1958
The Donna Reed Show
1958
Peter Gunn
1958
The Twilight Zone
1959
as Gallegos / Father Tomas / Guitarist (Ignacio)
Maverick
1957
as Pedro Rubio
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Thriller
1960
as Papa Glockstein / The Janitor
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Alf
The Millionaire
1955
as Uncle Jacques Monet
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Uncle Fernaud
Checkmate
1960
as Pedro Moreno
Playhouse 90
1956
as Anselmo
Cavalcade of America
1952
as Jake Bartosh
Johnny Staccato
1959
Wire Service
1956
as Prime Minister
Tightrope
1959
The Alaskans
1959
Harrigan and Son
1960
Movies (80)
The Magnificent Seven
1960
as Old Man
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943
as Anselmo
Scarlet Street
1945
as Pop LeJon
Juarez
1939
as Camilo
Mr. Lucky
1943
as Greek Priest (uncredited)
While the City Sleeps
1956
as George "Pop" Pilski
Sabu and the Magic Ring
1957
as The Old Fakir
Istanbul
1957
as Aziz Rakim
Back to Bataan
1945
as Señor Buenaventura J. Bello
Kismet
1931
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938
as Popus
Monster from Green Hell
1957
as Dr. Lorentz
The Real Glory
1939
as The Datu
Beyond the Time Barrier
1960
as The Supreme
The Life of Emile Zola
1937
as Paul Cezanne
Cimarron
1960
as Jacob Krubeckoff
Macao
1952
as Kwan Sum Tang
Road to Morocco
1942
as Hyder Khan
A Scandal in Paris
1946
as Uncle Hugo
The Baron of Arizona
1950
as Pepito Alvarez
Spawn of the North
1938
as Dimitri
Taras Bulba
1962
as Stepan Kanevsky
Expensive Husbands
1937
as Herr Andrew Brenner
Passage to Marseille
1944
as Grandpere
Twilight for the Gods
1958
as Feodor Morris
Beg, Borrow or Steal
1937
as Sascha
Comrade X
1940
as Michael Bastakoff
The Conspirators
1944
as Miguel
Westfront 1918
1930
as Proviantmeister
Darling of the Gods
1930
as Boris Jussupoff
Love Crazy
1941
as Dr. David Klugle
Mission to Moscow
1943
as Mikhail Kalinin, USSR president
Arsène Lupin Returns
1938
as Ivan Pavloff
Man on a String
1960
as Papa of Boris Mitrov
Mr. Sardonicus
1961
as Henryk Toleslawski
To the Ends of the Earth
1948
as Commissioner Lum Chi Chow
Strafsache van Geldern
1932
Till We Meet Again
1944
as Cabeau
The Lower Depths
1936
as le vieux Kostileff
A Royal Scandal
1945
as Malakoff
Two Smart People
1946
as Jacques Dufour
The 3 Penny Opera
1931
as Smith, the Jailer
Alcatraz Island
1937
as The Flying Dutchman
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
1957
as Pepe the Janitor
Ladies Lake
1934
as Baron Dobbersberg
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1959
as Anselmo
Mayerling
1936
as Chief of Police
Sons of Liberty
1939
as Jacob (uncredited)
Cloak and Dagger
1946
as Polda
Life Is Ours
1936
as Un vieillard dans le cortège final
Monster from British Hell
2021
as Dr. Lorentz
Farewell
1930
as The Baron
Crossroads
1942
as Carlos Le Duc (uncredited)
The Love of Jeanne Ney
1927
as Zacharkiewicz
The Mistress of Atlantis
1932
as L'hetman de Jitomir (as Vl. Sokoloff)
High and Low
1933
as M. Berger
Queen of Atlantis
1932
as Graf Bielowski
Song of the Streets
1933
as Le père Schlamp
Under Western Eyes
1936
as Le recteur
West of Shanghai
1937
as General Fu Shan
Don Quixote
1933
as Gypsy King
Road to Home
1945
as Self (archive footage)
Blockade
1938
as Basil
Adventures of a Ten Mark Note
1926
as Rag picker
Hell on Earth
1931
as Lewin
Die weiße Sonate
1928
as Violinvirtuose Dollhofer
The Threepenny Opera
1931
as Smith
Conquest
1937
as Dying soldier
The Ship of Lost Men
1929
as Grischa - the Cook
Mister Flow
1936
as Merlow
Katharina Knie
1929
as Julius, der Clown
Five Fingers: The Judas Goat
1961
as Peter Vestos
Der Sohn der Hagar
1927
as Poleto
The Holy Flames
1931
as Dr. Harvester
Paris Underground
1945
as Undertaker
Prince Woronzeff
1934
as Petroff
Haunted People
1932
Le secret des Woronzeff
1935
as Petroff
Morals at Midnight
1930
as Overseer
Their Son
1929
as Berry
About 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 fo… With 98 credits spanning from 1926 to 2021, Vladimir Sokoloff has appeared in 80 films and 18 TV shows.
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Most Popular Vladimir Sokoloff Movies
- The Magnificent Seven (1960) — as Old Man
- For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) — as Anselmo
- Scarlet Street (1945) — as Pop LeJon
- Juarez (1939) — as Camilo
- Mr. Lucky (1943) — as Greek Priest (uncredited)
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