Vladimir Sokoloff
Birthday: 1889-12-26 | Place of Birth: Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]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
Acting
Role
as Stepan Kanevsky
as Henryk Toleslawski
as Old man
as Papa of Boris Mitrov
as The Supreme
as Dr. Lorentz
as Kwan Sum Tang
as Pepito Alvarez
as Commissioner Lum Chi Chow
as Jacques Dufour
as Polda
as Uncle Hugo
as Malakoff
as Pop LeJon
as Undertaker
as Miguel
as Anselmo
as Hyder Khan
as Dr. David Klugle
as Michael Bastakoff
as The Datu
as Basil
as Dimitri
as Ivan Pavloff
as General Fu Shan
as Herr Andrew Brenner
as le vieux Kostileff
as Smith, the Jailer
as Grischa - the Cook
as Zacharkiewicz
