Acting · Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia] · Born December 26, 1889
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.
MovieMonster from British Hell
2021
as Dr. Lorentz
MovieTaras Bulba
1962
as Stepan Kanevsky
MovieMr. Sardonicus
1961
as Henryk Toleslawski
MovieFive Fingers: The Judas Goat
1961
as Peter Vestos
MovieCimarron
1960
as Jacob Krubeckoff
TVHarrigan and Son
1960
MovieThe Magnificent Seven
1960
as Old Man
TVCheckmate
1960
as Pedro Moreno
TVThriller
1960
as Papa Glockstein
MovieBeyond the Time Barrier
1960
as The Supreme
MovieMan on a String
1960
as Papa of Boris Mitrov
TVThe Alaskans
1959
TVThe Twilight Zone
1959
as Gallegos
TVJohnny Staccato
1959
TVTightrope
1959
MovieFor Whom the Bell Tolls
1959
as Anselmo
TVThe Rifleman
1958
TVThe Donna Reed Show
1958
TVPeter Gunn
1958
MovieTwilight for the Gods
1958
as Feodor Morris
Sabu and the Magic Ring
1957
as The Old Fakir
TVMaverick
1957
as Pedro Rubio
TVHave Gun, Will Travel
1957
MovieI Was a Teenage Werewolf
1957
as Pepe the Janitor
MovieMonster from Green Hell
1957
as Dr. Lorentz
MovieIstanbul
1957
as Aziz Rakim
TVDick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Alf
TVWire Service
1956
as Prime Minister
TVPlayhouse 90
1956
as Anselmo
MovieWhile the City Sleeps
1956
as George "Pop" Pilski
TVAlfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Uncle Fernaud
TVThe Millionaire
1955
as Uncle Jacques Monet
TVCavalcade of America
1952
as Jake Bartosh
MovieMacao
1952
as Kwan Sum Tang
MovieThe Baron of Arizona
1950
as Pepito Alvarez
MovieTo the Ends of the Earth
1948
as Commissioner Lum Chi Chow
MovieCloak and Dagger
1946
as Polda
MovieA Scandal in Paris
1946
as Uncle Hugo
MovieTwo Smart People
1946
as Jacques Dufour
MovieScarlet Street
1945
as Pop LeJon
MovieParis Underground
1945
as Undertaker
Road to Home
1945
as Self (archive footage)
MovieBack to Bataan
1945
as Señor Buenaventura J. Bello
MovieA Royal Scandal
1945
as Malakoff
MovieThe Conspirators
1944
as Miguel
MovieTill We Meet Again
1944
as Cabeau
MoviePassage to Marseille
1944
as Grandpere
MovieFor Whom the Bell Tolls
1943
as Anselmo
MovieMr. Lucky
1943
as Greek Priest (uncredited)
MovieMission to Moscow
1943
as Mikhail Kalinin, USSR president
MovieRoad to Morocco
1942
as Hyder Khan
MovieCrossroads
1942
as Carlos Le Duc (uncredited)
MovieLove Crazy
1941
as Dr. David Klugle
MovieComrade X
1940
as Michael Bastakoff
MovieThe Real Glory
1939
as The Datu
MovieJuarez
1939
as Camilo
MovieSons of Liberty
1939
as Jacob (uncredited)
MovieSpawn of the North
1938
as Dimitri
MovieThe Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938
as Popus
MovieBlockade
1938
as Basil
MovieArsène Lupin Returns
1938
as Ivan Pavloff
MovieBeg, Borrow or Steal
1937
as Sascha
MovieExpensive Husbands
1937
as Herr Andrew Brenner
MovieWest of Shanghai
1937
as General Fu Shan
MovieConquest
1937
as Dying soldier
MovieAlcatraz Island
1937
as The Flying Dutchman
MovieThe Life of Emile Zola
1937
as Paul Cezanne
MovieThe Lower Depths
1936
as le vieux Kostileff
MovieMister Flow
1936
as Merlow
MovieLife Is Ours
1936
as Un vieillard dans le cortège final
MovieUnder Western Eyes
1936
as Le recteur
MovieMayerling
1936
as Chief of Police
MovieLe secret des Woronzeff
1935
as Petroff
Prince Woronzeff
1934
as Petroff
MovieLadies Lake
1934
as Baron Dobbersberg
MovieHigh and Low
1933
as M. Berger
MovieSong of the Streets
1933
as Le père Schlamp
MovieDon Quixote
1933
as Gypsy King
MovieHaunted People
1932
MovieStrafsache van Geldern
1932
MovieQueen of Atlantis
1932
as Graf Bielowski
MovieThe Mistress of Atlantis
1932
as L'hetman de Jitomir (as Vl. Sokoloff)
MovieHell on Earth
1931
as Lewin
MovieThe Threepenny Opera
1931
as Smith
MovieThe Holy Flames
1931
as Dr. Harvester
MovieThe 3 Penny Opera
1931
as Smith, the Jailer
MovieKismet
1931
MovieDarling of the Gods
1930
as Boris Jussupoff
MovieFarewell
1930
as The Baron
MovieMorals at Midnight
1930
as Overseer
MovieWestfront 1918
1930
as Proviantmeister
MovieThe Ship of Lost Men
1929
as Grischa - the Cook
MovieTheir Son
1929
as Berry
MovieKatharina Knie
1929
as Julius, der Clown
Die weiße Sonate
1928
as Violinvirtuose Dollhofer
MovieThe Love of Jeanne Ney
1927
as Zacharkiewicz
Der Sohn der Hagar
1927
as Poleto
MovieAdventures of a Ten Mark Note
1926
as Rag picker
