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