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