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
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
as Anselmo
Scarlet Street (1945)
as Pop LeJon
Taras Bulba (1962)
as Stepan Kanevsky
Mr. Lucky (1943)
as Greek Priest (uncredited)
Cimarron (1960)
as Jacob Krubeckoff
Comrade X (1940)
as Michael Bastakoff
Juarez (1939)
as Camilo
Passage to Marseille (1944)
as Grandpere
Back to Bataan (1945)
as Señor Buenaventura J. Bello
While the City Sleeps (1956)
as George "Pop" Pilski
Macao (1952)
as Kwan Sum Tang
Mr. Sardonicus (1961)
as Henryk Toleslawski
Cloak and Dagger (1946)
as Polda
Road to Morocco (1942)
as Hyder Khan
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
as Popus
The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
as Paul Cezanne
Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)
as The Supreme
Love Crazy (1941)
as Dr. David Klugle
A Royal Scandal (1945)
as Malakoff
Queen of Atlantis (1932)
as Graf Bielowski
The Baron of Arizona (1950)
as Pepito Alvarez
Mission to Moscow (1943)
as Mikhail Kalinin, USSR president
A Scandal in Paris (1946)
as Uncle Hugo
The 3 Penny Opera (1931)
as Smith, the Jailer
Conquest (1937)
as Dying soldier
To the Ends of the Earth (1948)
as Commissioner Lum Chi Chow
The Conspirators (1944)
as Miguel
Westfront 1918 (1930)
as Proviantmeister
The Lower Depths (1936)
as le vieux Kostileff
Crossroads (1942)
as Carlos Le Duc (uncredited)
Arsène Lupin Returns (1938)
as Ivan Pavloff
Istanbul (1957)
as Aziz Rakim
Mayerling (1936)
as Chief of Police
Spawn of the North (1938)
as Dimitri
Blockade (1938)
as Basil
The Real Glory (1939)
as The Datu
I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)
as Pepe the Janitor
The Ship of Lost Men (1929)
as Grischa - the Cook
Alcatraz Island (1937)
as The Flying Dutchman
Till We Meet Again (1944)
as Cabeau
Two Smart People (1946)
as Jacques Dufour
Monster from Green Hell (1957)
as Dr. Lorentz
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1959)
as Anselmo
Strafsache van Geldern (1932)
Actor
Road to Home (1945)
as Self (archive footage)
The Mistress of Atlantis (1932)
as L'hetman de Jitomir (as Vl. Sokoloff)
Paris Underground (1945)
as Undertaker
Under Western Eyes (1936)
as Le recteur
Kismet (1931)
Actor
Man on a String (1960)
as Papa of Boris Mitrov
Sabu and the Magic Ring (1957)
as The Old Fakir
Hell on Earth (1931)
as Lewin
Life Is Ours (1936)
as Un vieillard dans le cortège final
Mister Flow (1936)
as Merlow
Beg, Borrow or Steal (1937)
as Sascha
Twilight for the Gods (1958)
as Feodor Morris
The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)
as Zacharkiewicz
Don Quixote (1933)
as Gypsy King
The Holy Flames (1931)
as Dr. Harvester
Sons of Liberty (1939)
as Jacob (uncredited)
Expensive Husbands (1937)
as Herr Andrew Brenner
Their Son (1929)
as Berry
High and Low (1933)
as M. Berger
West of Shanghai (1937)
as General Fu Shan
The Threepenny Opera (1931)
as Smith
Prince Woronzeff (1934)
as Petroff
Darling of the Gods (1930)
as Boris Jussupoff
Five Fingers: The Judas Goat (1961)
as Peter Vestos
Adventures of a Ten Mark Note (1926)
as Rag picker
Katharina Knie (1929)
as Julius, der Clown
Ladies Lake (1934)
as Baron Dobbersberg
Song of the Streets (1933)
as Le père Schlamp
Le secret des Woronzeff (1935)
as Petroff
Farewell (1930)
as The Baron
Der Sohn der Hagar (1927)
as Poleto
Monster from British Hell (2021)
as Dr. Lorentz
Morals at Midnight (1930)
as Overseer
Haunted People (1932)
Actor
Die weiße Sonate (1928)
as Violinvirtuose Dollhofer