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.
Known for
ActingBirthday
December 26, 1889Deathday
February 15, 1962Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
81Place of birth
Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]Also known as
Wladimir Sokoloff, Wladimir Sokolow, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sokoloff, Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Соколо́в, Waldemar SokoloffCast credits
The Magnificent Seven
Old manQueen of Atlantis
Graf BielowskiLove Crazy
Dr. David KlugleConquest
Dying soldierMacao
Kwan Sum TangFor Whom the Bell Tolls
AnselmoThe Conspirators
MiguelMr. Sardonicus
Henryk ToleslawskiWhile the City Sleeps
George "Pop" PilskiTaras Bulba
Stepan KanevskyThe Baron of Arizona
Pepito AlvarezBeyond the Time Barrier
The SupremeCloak and Dagger
PoldaHigh and Low
M. BergerThe Lower Depths
le vieux KostileffHell on Earth
LewinCimarron
Jacob KrubeckoffScarlet Street
Pop LeJonTo the Ends of the Earth
Commissioner Lum Chi ChowPassage to Marseille
GrandpereBack to Bataan
Señor Buenaventura J. Bello