​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sokoloff (Russian: Владимир ÐлекÑандрович 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.
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Vladimir Sokoloff Biography / Wiki
| Name | Vladimir Sokoloff |
| Also Know | Wladimir Sokoloff, Wladimir Sokolow |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia] |
| Date of Birth | 1889-12-26 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 72 |
| Deathday | 1962-02-15 |
Vladimir Sokoloff Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Song of the Streets | Le père Schlamp | 1933-07-26 | A gang of poverty-ridden juvenile delinquents progress from petty theft to hard crime, but a kindly judge manages to set most of them on the right pat… |
| Die weiße Sonate | Violinvirtuose Dollhofer | 1928-01-01 | … |
| Hell on Earth | Lewin | 1931-12-10 | Hell on Earth (German: Niemandsland) is a 1931 German film directed by Victor Trivas. The film is also known as No Man’s Land in France…. |
| The Baron of Arizona | Pepito Alvarez | 1950-03-04 | The U.S. government recognizes land grants made when the West was under Spanish rule. This inspires James Reavis to forge a chain of historical eviden… |
| Beyond the Time Barrier | The Supreme | 1960-09-08 | A pilot testing an experimental new rocket powered craft manages to fly into the future and land at the now deserted airbase he left. He ends up in a … |
| Kismet | 1931-07-23 | Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the ca… | |
| Moral um Mitternacht | 1930-06-20 | … | |
| Queen of Atlantis | Graf Bielowski | 1932-09-05 | Antinea, the Queen of Atlantis, rules her secret kingdom hidden beneath the Sahara Desert. One day two lost explorers stumble into her kingdom, and so… |
| Cloak and Dagger | Polda | 1946-09-28 | Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis…. |
| The Ship of Lost Men | Grischa – the Cook | 1929-09-17 | A young doctor gets stuck on a ship after treating an injured first mate. Later, he rescues a woman from plane wreckage, and with the help of the cook… |
| Mister Flow | Merlow | 1936-12-02 | While still behind bars, a crook manages several schemes including one that almost gets his penniless young lawyer into trouble.The crook’s mistress, … |
| Le secret des Woronzeff | 1935-02-01 | … | |
| Five Fingers: The Judas Goat | Peter Vestos | 1961-10-01 | In Hungary, Sebastian searches for a traitor who betrays his people after promising them freedom. An episode of the spy show Five Fingers edited for t… |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Anselmo | 1943-07-12 | Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side… |
| Mr. Sardonicus | Henryk Toleslawski | 1961-10-08 | A search for a winning lottery ticket in his dead father’s grave causes Sardonicus’ face to freeze in a horrible grimace, until he forces a doctor to … |
| To the Ends of the Earth | Commissioner Lum Chi Chow | 1948-02-07 | A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring…. |
| Expensive Husbands | Herr Andrew Brenner | 1937-11-27 | Unable to get work in her home country, Laurine Lynne (Beverly Roberts) travels to Vienna where her press agent, Joe Craig (Allyn Joslyn), convinces h… |
| Katharina Knie | Julius, der Clown | 1929-02-24 | Katharina Knie is a 1929 German silent drama film directed by Karl Grune and starring Eugen Klöpfer, Carmen Boni and Adele Sandrock. It is based on t… |
| Road to Home | Archieve footage | 1945-07-04 | WWII U.S. Navy training film MN-5075a that addresses the end of the war. Bob Hope and Bing Crosby try to convince sailors not to desert but to wait f… |
| Life Is Ours | Un vieillard dans le cortège final | 1936-04-07 | A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists…. |
| Monster from Green Hell | Dr. Lorentz | 1957-05-17 | A test rocket carrying wasps to outer space, to study the effects on them of weightlessness and radiations, crashes out of control back to Earth, int… |
| Blockade | Basil | 1938-06-17 | A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with a Russian girl whose f… |
| Westfront 1918 | Proviantmeister | 1930-05-23 | A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a vil… |
| The Love of Jeanne Ney | Zacharkiewicz | 1927-12-06 | In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren’t done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Pe… |
| Road to Morocco | Hyder Khan | 1942-11-10 | Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar…. |
| Paris Underground | Undertaker | 1945-10-18 | Constance Bennett both produced and starred in the espionager Paris Underground. Bennett and Gracie Fields play, respectively, an American and an Engl… |
| Die heilige Flamme | 1931-05-02 | This is the German-language version of 1929’s “The Sacred Flame”, from the W. Somerset Maugham play, shot by Warner Bros. in Hollywood with a German-s… | |
| Sensation im Wintergarten | Berry | 1929-09-08 | … |
| Till We Meet Again | Cabeau | 1944-08-30 | An American pilot is shot down over Nazi-occupied France and is taken to a convent by the Resistance. The young novice nun Clothilde is interested in … |
| Haunted People | 1932-12-06 | Widowed carpenter Vincenz Olivier lives with his 8-year-old son Boubou in a small French town. But on the day he is supposed to marry the mayor′s da… | |
| The Lower Depths | le vieux Kostileff | 1936-12-11 | Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel, e… |
| Ladies Lake | Baron Dobbersberg | 1934-05-18 | A handsome but penniless young man takes a summer job as a swimming instructor in a picturesque Alpine lake resort. He falls in love with a young heir… |
| West Of Shanghai | Chow Fu-Shan | 1937-10-30 | American businessmen and missionaries working in China are captured and held prisoner by a local warlord…. |
| L’Atlantide | L’hetman de Jitomir (as Vl. Sokoloff) | 1932-06-09 | Antinea, the Queen of Atlantis, rules her secret kingdom hidden beneath the Sahara Desert. One day two lost explorers stumble into her kingdom, and so… |
| Farewell | The Baron | 1930-08-25 | Hella lives in a boarding house and has various romantic adventures before settling down with vacuum cleaner salesman Winkler…. |
| Man on a String | Papa of Boris Mitrov | 1960-05-20 | U.S. spies catch a Moscow-born U.S. citizen (Ernest Borgnine) helping spies, and they force him to counterspy…. |
| Der Sohn der Hagar | Poleto | 1927-03-24 | … |
| Love Crazy | Dr. David Klugle | 1941-05-23 | Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity…. |
| The Conspirators | Miguel | 1944-10-24 | A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon…. |
| Two Smart People | Jacques Dufour | 1946-06-04 | Con woman Ricki Woodner and detective Bob Simms follow a prison-bound swindler Ace Connors on his five-day gourmet binge…. |
| The Real Glory | The Datu | 1939-09-29 | In the wake of the Spanish-American war, military doctor Bill Canavan (Cooper) arrives at a war-torn Filipino outpost. Infested with cholera and under… |
| Comrade X | Michael Bastakoff | 1940-12-13 | An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country…. |
| Prince Woronzeff | Petroff | 1934-10-01 | Baron Franz von Naydek is constantly being mistaken for Prince Woronzeff, since both look identical. One day, Woronzeff decides that this similarity … |
| The Threepenny Opera | Smith | 1931-11-04 | The French-language version of the The Threepenny Opera with a different cast from the German version…. |
| A Royal Scandal | Malakoff | 1945-03-26 | Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her…. |
| Under Western Eyes | Le recteur | 1936-03-20 | Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes emb… |
| Macao | Kwan Sum Tang | 1952-04-11 | A man on the run in the Far East is mistaken for an undercover cop…. |
| Darling of the Gods | Boris Jussupoff | 1930-10-13 | Also known as Darling of the Gods, this was Emil Jannings’ second talkie appearance. Jannings stars as famed operatic singer Albert Winkelmann, who is… |
| Spawn of the North | Dimitri | 1938-08-26 | Two Alaskan salmon fisherman find their friendship at risk when one aligns with Russian fish pirates and the other aligns with local vigilantes…. |
| A Scandal in Paris | Uncle Hugo | 1946-07-19 | A smooth-talking French thief (George Sanders) wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police…. |
| The 3 Penny Opera | Smith, the Jailer | 1931-02-18 | In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterpr… |
| Alcatraz Island | The Flying Dutchman | 1937-10-13 | A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence…. |
| Don Quixote | Gypsy King | 1933-03-25 | Inflamed by his readings of chivalric novels, Don Quixote, a knight with a sad face, accompanied by Sancho Panza, a peasant steeped in common sense, d… |
| The Magnificent Seven | Old man | 1960-10-12 | An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes…. |
| Taras Bulba | Stepan Kanevsky | 1962-11-21 | Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for hi… |
| Scarlet Street | Pop LeJon | 1945-12-25 | Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she’s really only… |
| Arsène Lupin Returns | Ivan Pavloff | 1938-02-25 | A woman and a man vying for a woman’s affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy … |
| Istanbul | Aziz Rakim | 1957-01-23 | A suspected diamond smuggler returns to Istanbul and finds the lady love he thought was dead…or does he?… |
| Conquest | Dying soldier | 1937-10-22 | A polish countess dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte’s mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him … |
| Passage to Marseille | Grandpere | 1944-02-16 | A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny…. |
| Sons of Liberty | Jacob (uncredited) | 1939-05-20 | Set during the American Revolution, this colorful 2 reel short tells the story of Haym Salomon, American patriot and financier of the American Revolut… |
| Twilight for the Gods | Feodor Morris | 1958-08-04 | An alcoholic captain sails a two-master through danger with a call girl and others on board…. |
| Beg, Borrow or Steal | Sascha | 1937-12-03 | We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of fake paintings and other assorted dodges. He and … |
| Back to Bataan | Señor Buenaventura J. Bello | 1945-05-30 | An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines…. |
| I Was a Teenage Werewolf | Pepe the Janitor | 1957-06-19 | A hypnotherapist uses a temperamental teenager as a guinea pig for a serum which transforms him into a vicious werewolf…. |
| The Life of Emile Zola | Paul Cezanne | 1937-10-02 | Biopic of the famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair…. |
| High and Low | M. Berger | 1933-12-08 | The intersecting lives of neighbors in a courtyard apartment building in Vienna,including a football player related to the concierge,a new blonde maid… |
| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse | Popus | 1938-07-20 | A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceed… |
| Juarez | Camilo | 1939-06-10 | The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy…. |
| Mission to Moscow | Mikhail Kalinin, USSR president | 1943-04-29 | Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism…. |
| Mayerling | Chief of Police | 1936-01-31 | Rudolf, the only heir to Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary, is trapped in a loveless marriage to a Belgian princess. As he seeks to flee his stif… |
| Crossroads | Carlos Le Duc (uncredited) | 1942-07-23 | A French diplomat who’s recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can’t remember…. |
| While the City Sleeps | George “Pop” Pilski | 1956-04-19 | Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed “The Lipstick Killer”…. |
| Cimarron | Jacob Krubeckoff | 1960-12-01 | The epic story of a family that’s involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush in 1889…. |
| Mr. Lucky | Greek Priest (uncredited) | 1943-07-01 | A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him…. |
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