Known For
Acting
Born
Dec 26, 1889
Died
Feb 15, 1962
Place of Birth
Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Credits
98 titles
Vladimir 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). 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
Filmography
Monster from British Hell
Dr. Lorentz
Taras Bulba
Stepan Kanevsky
Mr. Sardonicus
Henryk Toleslawski
Five Fingers: The Judas Goat
Peter Vestos
Cimarron
Jacob Krubeckoff
Harrigan and Son
The Magnificent Seven
Old Man
Checkmate
Pedro Moreno
Thriller
Papa Glockstein
Beyond the Time Barrier
The Supreme
Man on a String
Papa of Boris Mitrov
The Alaskans
The Twilight Zone
Gallegos
Johnny Staccato
Tightrope
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Anselmo
The Rifleman
The Donna Reed Show
Peter Gunn
Twilight for the Gods
Feodor Morris
Sabu and the Magic Ring
The Old Fakir
Maverick
Pedro Rubio
Have Gun, Will Travel
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
Pepe the Janitor
Monster from Green Hell
Dr. Lorentz
Istanbul
Aziz Rakim
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Alf
Playhouse 90
Anselmo
Wire Service
Prime Minister
While the City Sleeps
George "Pop" Pilski
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Uncle Fernaud
The Millionaire
Uncle Jacques Monet
Cavalcade of America
Jake Bartosh
Macao
Kwan Sum Tang
The Baron of Arizona
Pepito Alvarez
To the Ends of the Earth
Commissioner Lum Chi Chow
Cloak and Dagger
Polda
A Scandal in Paris
Uncle Hugo
Two Smart People
Jacques Dufour
Scarlet Street
Pop LeJon
Paris Underground
Undertaker
Road to Home
Self (archive footage)
Back to Bataan
Señor Buenaventura J. Bello
A Royal Scandal
Malakoff
The Conspirators
Miguel
Till We Meet Again
Cabeau
Passage to Marseille
Grandpere
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Anselmo
Mr. Lucky
Greek Priest (uncredited)
Mission to Moscow
Mikhail Kalinin, USSR president