Vladimir Sokoloff
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.
The Magnificent Seven
(Old man)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
(Anselmo)
Queen of Atlantis
(Graf Bielowski)
Love Crazy
(Dr. David Klugle)
Conquest
(Dying soldier)
Macao
(Kwan Sum Tang)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
(Anselmo)
The Conspirators
(Miguel)
Mr. Sardonicus
(Henryk Toleslawski)
While the City Sleeps
(George "Pop" Pilski)
Le secret des Woronzeff
Taras Bulba
(Stepan Kanevsky)
The Baron of Arizona
(Pepito Alvarez)
Beyond the Time Barrier
(The Supreme)
Cloak and Dagger
(Polda)
High and Low
(M. Berger)
The Lower Depths
(le vieux Kostileff)
Hell on Earth
(Lewin)
Scarlet Street
(Pop LeJon)
Cimarron
(Jacob Krubeckoff)
To the Ends of the Earth
(Commissioner Lum Chi Chow)
Passage to Marseille
(Grandpere)
Back to Bataan
(Señor Buenaventura J. Bello)
Monster from Green Hell
(Dr. Lorentz)
Darling of the Gods
(Boris Jussupoff)
Under Western Eyes
(Le recteur)
Spawn of the North
(Dimitri)
Two Smart People
(Jacques Dufour)
Ladies Lake
(Baron Dobbersberg)
Hollywood Classic Special
Arsène Lupin Returns
(Ivan Pavloff)
Blockade
(Basil)
A Scandal in Paris
(Uncle Hugo)
The Ship of Lost Men
(Grischa - the Cook)
Istanbul
(Aziz Rakim)
West of Shanghai
(General Fu Shan)
Sons of Liberty
(Jacob (uncredited))
Song of the Streets
(Le père Schlamp)
Five Fingers: The Judas Goat
(Peter Vestos)
Westfront 1918
(Proviantmeister)
The Real Glory
(The Datu)
Expensive Husbands
(Herr Andrew Brenner)
The Love of Jeanne Ney
(Zacharkiewicz)
The 3 Penny Opera
(Smith, the Jailer)
Beg, Borrow or Steal
(Sascha)
Die Abenteuer eines Zehnmarkscheines
(Rag picker)
Comrade X
(Michael Bastakoff)
Juarez
(Camilo)
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
(Pepe the Janitor)
Monster from British Hell
(Dr. Lorentz)
Alcatraz Island
(The Flying Dutchman)
Sabu and the Magic Ring
(The Old Fakir)
Road to Morocco
(Hyder Khan)
Mister Flow
(Merlow)
The Life of Emile Zola
(Paul Cezanne)
The Mistress of Atlantis
(L'hetman de Jitomir (as Vl. Sokoloff))
Prince Woronzeff
(Petroff)
Katharina Knie
(Julius, der Clown)
Paris Underground
(Undertaker)
Kismet
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
(Popus)
Crossroads
(Carlos Le Duc (uncredited))
Farewell
(The Baron)
The Holy Flames
(Dr. Harvester)
Twilight for the Gods
(Feodor Morris)
The Threepenny Opera
(Smith)
Man on a String
(Papa of Boris Mitrov)
Die weiße Sonate
(Violinvirtuose Dollhofer)
Der Sohn der Hagar
(Poleto)
Sensation im Wintergarten
(Berry)
Road to Home
(Self (archive footage))
Mission to Moscow
(Mikhail Kalinin, USSR president)
Mr. Lucky
(Greek Priest (uncredited))
A Royal Scandal
(Malakoff)
Life Is Ours
(Un vieillard dans le cortège final)
Don Quixote
(Gypsy King)
Mayerling
(Chief of Police)
Till We Meet Again
(Cabeau)
Haunted People
Morals at Midnight
(Overseer)
Strafsache van Geldern
Johnny Staccato
The Twilight Zone
(Gallegos)
Have Gun, Will Travel
The Millionaire
(Uncle Jacques Monet)
Thriller
(Papa Glockstein)
Peter Gunn
The Donna Reed Show
The Alaskans
The Rifleman
Wire Service
(Prime Minister)
Harrigan and Son
Cavalcade of America
(Jake Bartosh)
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
(Alf)
Tightrope
Maverick
(Pedro Rubio)
The Twilight Zone
(Father Thomas)
Checkmate
(Pedro Moreno)
Thriller
(The Janitor)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
(Uncle Fernaud)
Playhouse 90
(Anselmo)