
Vladimir Sokoloff
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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.
Known for
Credits

The Magnificent Seven (1960)
as Old Man

Istanbul (1957)
as Aziz Rakim

Juarez (1939)
as Camilo

Mr. Lucky (1943)
as Greek Priest (uncredited)

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
as Anselmo

Scarlet Street (1945)
as Pop LeJon

Passage to Marseille (1944)
as Grandpere

While the City Sleeps (1956)
as George "Pop" Pilski

Back to Bataan (1945)
as Señor Buenaventura J. Bello

Taras Bulba (1962)
as Stepan Kanevsky

Cimarron (1960)
as Jacob Krubeckoff

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
as Popus

The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
as Paul Cezanne

Beg, Borrow or Steal (1937)
as Sascha

The Real Glory (1939)
as The Datu

Sabu and the Magic Ring (1957)
as The Old Fakir

Macao (1952)
as Kwan Sum Tang

Kismet (1931)
Actor

The Lower Depths (1936)
as le vieux Kostileff

The Baron of Arizona (1950)
as Pepito Alvarez

A Scandal in Paris (1946)
as Uncle Hugo

Cloak and Dagger (1946)
as Polda

I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)
as Pepe the Janitor

Westfront 1918 (1930)
as Proviantmeister

Love Crazy (1941)
as Dr. David Klugle

Conquest (1937)
as Dying soldier

Mayerling (1936)
as Chief of Police

Road to Morocco (1942)
as Hyder Khan

Till We Meet Again (1944)
as Cabeau

Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)
as The Supreme

Spawn of the North (1938)
as Dimitri

Mr. Sardonicus (1961)
as Henryk Toleslawski

Man on a String (1960)
as Papa of Boris Mitrov

Expensive Husbands (1937)
as Herr Andrew Brenner

Mission to Moscow (1943)
as Mikhail Kalinin, USSR president

A Royal Scandal (1945)
as Malakoff

The 3 Penny Opera (1931)
as Smith, the Jailer

Strafsache van Geldern (1932)
as Armenarzt

Twilight for the Gods (1958)
as Feodor Morris

The Threepenny Opera (1931)
as Smith

Monster from Green Hell (1957)
as Dr. Lorentz

Darling of the Gods (1930)
as Boris Jussupoff

The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)
as Zacharkiewicz

To the Ends of the Earth (1948)
as Commissioner Lum Chi Chow

Katharina Knie (1929)
as Julius, der Clown

The Conspirators (1944)
as Miguel

Crossroads (1942)
as Carlos Le Duc (uncredited)

Under Western Eyes (1936)
as Le recteur

Comrade X (1940)
as Michael Bastakoff

Arsène Lupin Returns (1938)
as Ivan Pavloff

The Ship of Lost Men (1929)
as Grischa - the Cook

Life Is Ours (1936)
as Un vieillard dans le cortège final

Queen of Atlantis (1932)
as Graf Bielowski

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1959)
as Anselmo

Adventures of a Ten Mark Note (1926)
as Rag picker

Blockade (1938)
as Basil

Two Smart People (1946)
as Jacques Dufour

Sons of Liberty (1939)
as Jacob (uncredited)

Farewell (1930)
as The Baron

Alcatraz Island (1937)
as The Flying Dutchman

High and Low (1933)
as M. Berger

Don Quixote (1933)
as Gypsy King

Paris Underground (1945)
as Undertaker

Ladies Lake (1934)
as Baron Dobbersberg

West of Shanghai (1937)
as General Fu Shan

Le secret des Woronzeff (1935)
as Petroff

The Mistress of Atlantis (1932)
as L'hetman de Jitomir (as Vl. Sokoloff)
Die weiße Sonate (1928)
as Violinvirtuose Dollhofer

Five Fingers: The Judas Goat (1961)
as Peter Vestos

The Holy Flames (1931)
as Dr. Harvester

Hell on Earth (1931)
as Lewin

Their Son (1929)
as Berry

Song of the Streets (1933)
as Le père Schlamp

Haunted People (1932)
Actor
Prince Woronzeff (1934)
as Petroff
Der Sohn der Hagar (1927)
as Poleto
Road to Home (1945)
as Self (archive footage)

Mister Flow (1936)
as Merlow

Morals at Midnight (1930)
as Overseer





