Vladimir Sokoloff
Age: 72 | From: Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Person Details
Birthday: 1889-12-26 05:26:31
Death: 1962-02-15 05:26:31
Aliases: Wladimir Sokoloff , Wladimir Sokolow
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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Movie Involvements: 59
TV Involvements: 11
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
The Twilight Zone
(1959) Father Thomas
The Magnificent Seven
(1960) Old man
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
(1955) Uncle Fernaud
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
(1956) Alf
For Whom the Bell Tolls
(1943) Anselmo
Scarlet Street
(1945) Pop LeJon
Taras Bulba
(1962) Stepan Kanevsky
Thriller
(1960) The JanitorActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Pepe in 'I was a Teenage Werewolf' | |
| 1962 | Stepan Kanevsky | |
| 1961 | Henryk Toleslawski | |
| Peter Vestos | ||
| 1960 | Jacob Krubeckoff | |
| N/A | ||
| Old man | ||
| Pedro Moreno | ||
| Papa Glockstein | ||
| The Janitor | ||
| The Supreme | ||
| Papa of Boris Mitrov | ||
| 1959 | N/A | |
| Gallegos | ||
| Father Thomas | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Anselmo | ||
| 1958 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Feodor Morris | ||
| 1957 | Pedro Rubio | |
| N/A | ||
| Pepe the Janitor | ||
| Dr. Lorentz | ||
| Aziz Rakim | ||
| 1956 | Alf | |
| Prime Minister | ||
| Anselmo | ||
| George "Pop" Pilski | ||
| 1955 | Uncle Fernaud | |
| Uncle Jacques Monet | ||
| 1952 | Jake Bartosh | |
| Kwan Sum Tang | ||
| 1950 | Pepito Alvarez | |
| 1948 | Commissioner Lum Chi Chow | |
| 1946 | Polda | |
| Uncle Hugo | ||
| Jacques Dufour | ||
| 1945 | Pop LeJon | |
| Undertaker | ||
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| Señor Buenaventura J. Bello | ||
| Malakoff | ||
| 1944 | Miguel | |
| Cabeau | ||
| Grandpere | ||
| 1943 | Anselmo | |
| Greek Priest (uncredited) | ||
| Mikhail Kalinin, USSR president | ||
| 1942 | Hyder Khan | |
| Carlos Le Duc (uncredited) | ||
| 1941 | Dr. David Klugle | |
| 1940 | Michael Bastakoff | |
| 1939 | The Datu | |
| Camilo | ||
| Jacob (uncredited) | ||
| 1938 | Dimitri | |
| Popus | ||
| Basil | ||
| Ivan Pavloff | ||
| 1937 | Sascha | |
| Herr Andrew Brenner | ||
| Chow Fu-Shan | ||
| Dying soldier | ||
| The Flying Dutchman | ||
| Paul Cezanne | ||
| 1936 | le vieux Kostileff | |
| Merlow | ||
| Un vieillard dans le cortège final | ||
| Le recteur | ||
| Chief of Police | ||
| 1935 | N/A | |
| 1934 | Petroff | |
| Baron Dobbersberg | ||
| 1933 | M. Berger | |
| Le père Schlamp | ||
| Gypsy King | ||
| 1932 | N/A | |
| Graf Bielowski | ||
| L'hetman de Jitomir (as Vl. Sokoloff) | ||
| 1931 | Lewin | |
| Smith | ||
| Dr. Harvester | ||
| Smith, the Jailer | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1930 | Boris Jussupoff | |
| The Baron | ||
| Overseer | ||
| Proviantmeister | ||
| 1929 | Grischa - the Cook | |
| Berry | ||
| Julius, der Clown | ||
| 1928 | Violinvirtuose Dollhofer | |
| 1927 | Zacharkiewicz | |
| Poleto | ||
| N/A | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
