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Vladimir Sokoloff

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1962
Taras Bulba

as    Stepan Kanevsky

1961
Mr. Sardonicus

as    Henryk Toleslawski

1960
The Magnificent Seven

as    Old man

1960
Man on a String

as    Papa of Boris Mitrov

1960
Beyond the Time Barrier

as    The Supreme

1957
Monster from Green Hell

as    Dr. Lorentz

1952
Macao

as    Kwan Sum Tang

1950
The Baron of Arizona

as    Pepito Alvarez

1948
To the Ends of the Earth

as    Commissioner Lum Chi Chow

1946
Two Smart People

as    Jacques Dufour

1946
Cloak and Dagger

as    Polda

1946
A Scandal in Paris

as    Uncle Hugo

1945
A Royal Scandal

as    Malakoff

1945
Scarlet Street

as    Pop LeJon

1945
Paris Underground

as    Undertaker

1944
The Conspirators

as    Miguel

1943
For Whom the Bell Tolls

as    Anselmo

1942
Road to Morocco

as    Hyder Khan

1941
Love Crazy

as    Dr. David Klugle

1940
Comrade X

as    Michael Bastakoff

1939
The Real Glory

as    The Datu

1938
Blockade

as    Basil

1938
Spawn of the North

as    Dimitri

1938
Arsène Lupin Returns

as    Ivan Pavloff

1937
West of Shanghai

as    General Fu Shan

1937
Expensive Husbands

as    Herr Andrew Brenner

1936
The Lower Depths

as    le vieux Kostileff

1931
The 3 Penny Opera

as    Smith, the Jailer

1929
The Ship of Lost Men

as    Grischa - the Cook

1927
The Love of Jeanne Ney

as    Zacharkiewicz