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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 26, 1889
Died
February 15, 1962
Place of Birth
Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Also Known As
- Wladimir Sokoloff
- Wladimir Sokolow
- Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sokoloff
- Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Соколо́в
- Waldemar Sokoloff
Vladimir Sokoloff
1.2 Popularity
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.
Known For
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Dr. Lorentz
Monster from British Hell
2021
🎬
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Hollywood Classic Special
2010
6.3
Stepan Kanevsky
Taras Bulba
1962
6.3
Henryk Toleslawski
Mr. Sardonicus
1961
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Peter Vestos
Five Fingers: The Judas Goat
1961
6.0
Jacob Krubeckoff
Cimarron
1960
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Harrigan and Son
1960
7.5
Old Man
The Magnificent Seven
1960
4.1
Pedro Moreno
Checkmate
1960
6.6
Papa Glockstein
Thriller
1960
Credits
Monster from British Hell
as Dr. Lorentz
2021
0.0
🎬
Hollywood Classic Special
2010
0.0
Taras Bulba
as Stepan Kanevsky
1962
6.3
Mr. Sardonicus
as Henryk Toleslawski
1961
6.3
Five Fingers: The Judas Goat
as Peter Vestos
1961
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Cimarron
as Jacob Krubeckoff
1960
6.0
Harrigan and Son
1960
0.0
The Magnificent Seven
as Old Man
1960
7.5
Checkmate
as Pedro Moreno
1960
4.1
Thriller
as Papa Glockstein
1960
6.6
Thriller
as The Janitor
1960
6.6
Beyond the Time Barrier
as The Supreme
1960
6.0
Man on a String
as Papa of Boris Mitrov
1960
6.0
The Alaskans
1959
5.5
The Twilight Zone
as Gallegos
1959
8.5
The Twilight Zone
as Father Tomas
1959
8.5
The Twilight Zone
as Guitarist (Ignacio)
1959
8.5
Johnny Staccato
1959
5.0
Tightrope
1959
5.5
For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Anselmo
1959
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The Rifleman
1958
7.1
The Donna Reed Show
1958
6.2
Peter Gunn
1958
6.4
Twilight for the Gods
as Feodor Morris
1958
3.6
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Sabu and the Magic Ring
as The Old Fakir
1957
5.0
Maverick
as Pedro Rubio
1957
6.9
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
7.3
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
as Pepe the Janitor
1957
4.8
Monster from Green Hell
as Dr. Lorentz
1957
3.7
Istanbul
as Aziz Rakim
1957
6.0
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Alf
1956
6.0
Playhouse 90
as Anselmo
1956
7.6
Wire Service
as Prime Minister
1956
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While the City Sleeps
as George "Pop" Pilski
1956
6.9
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Uncle Fernaud
1955
7.8
The Millionaire
as Uncle Jacques Monet
1955
5.0
Cavalcade of America
as Jake Bartosh
1952
3.5
Macao
as Kwan Sum Tang
1952
6.2
The Baron of Arizona
as Pepito Alvarez
1950
6.6
To the Ends of the Earth
as Commissioner Lum Chi Chow
1948
5.7
Cloak and Dagger
as Polda
1946
6.5
A Scandal in Paris
as Uncle Hugo
1946
6.4
Two Smart People
as Jacques Dufour
1946
6.4
Scarlet Street
as Pop LeJon
1945
7.6
Paris Underground
as Undertaker
1945
5.4
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Road to Home
as Self (archive footage)
1945
5.0
Back to Bataan
as Señor Buenaventura J. Bello
1945
6.0
A Royal Scandal
as Malakoff
1945
6.9
The Conspirators
as Miguel
1944
6.0
Till We Meet Again
as Cabeau
1944
6.0
Passage to Marseille
as Grandpere
1944
6.6
For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Anselmo
1943
6.5
Mr. Lucky
as Greek Priest (uncredited)
1943
7.0
Mission to Moscow
as Mikhail Kalinin, USSR president
1943
5.3
Road to Morocco
as Hyder Khan
1942
6.9
Crossroads
as Carlos Le Duc (uncredited)
1942
5.8
Love Crazy
as Dr. David Klugle
1941
6.7
Comrade X
as Michael Bastakoff
1940
6.0
The Real Glory
as The Datu
1939
6.3
Juarez
as Camilo
1939
6.5
Sons of Liberty
as Jacob (uncredited)
1939
6.2
Spawn of the North
as Dimitri
1938
5.7
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
as Popus
1938
7.1
Blockade
as Basil
1938
5.5
Arsène Lupin Returns
as Ivan Pavloff
1938
5.8
Beg, Borrow or Steal
as Sascha
1937
5.0
Expensive Husbands
as Herr Andrew Brenner
1937
4.8
West of Shanghai
as General Fu Shan
1937
5.4
Conquest
as Dying soldier
1937
6.5
Alcatraz Island
as The Flying Dutchman
1937
4.9
The Life of Emile Zola
as Paul Cezanne
1937
6.7
The Lower Depths
as le vieux Kostileff
1936
7.2
Mister Flow
as Merlow
1936
6.5
Life Is Ours
as Un vieillard dans le cortège final
1936
6.3
Under Western Eyes
as Le recteur
1936
6.2
Mayerling
as Chief of Police
1936
6.4
Le secret des Woronzeff
as Petroff
1935
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Prince Woronzeff
as Petroff
1934
0.0
Ladies Lake
as Baron Dobbersberg
1934
3.6
High and Low
as M. Berger
1933
5.0
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Song of the Streets
as Le père Schlamp
1933
5.5
Don Quixote
as Gypsy King
1933
5.7
Haunted People
1932
5.0
Strafsache van Geldern
1932
5.2
Queen of Atlantis
as Graf Bielowski
1932
6.0
The Mistress of Atlantis
as L'hetman de Jitomir (as Vl. Sokoloff)
1932
5.1
Hell on Earth
as Lewin
1931
5.9
The Threepenny Opera
as Smith
1931
6.6
The Holy Flames
as Dr. Harvester
1931
0.0
The 3 Penny Opera
as Smith, the Jailer
1931
7.0
Kismet
1931
0.0
Darling of the Gods
as Boris Jussupoff
1930
5.5
Farewell
as The Baron
1930
6.8
Morals at Midnight
as Overseer
1930
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Westfront 1918
as Proviantmeister
1930
6.6
The Ship of Lost Men
as Grischa - the Cook
1929
4.9
Their Son
as Berry
1929
0.0
Katharina Knie
as Julius, der Clown
1929
7.0
🎬
Die weiße Sonate
as Violinvirtuose Dollhofer
1928
0.0
The Love of Jeanne Ney
as Zacharkiewicz
1927
7.2
🎬
Der Sohn der Hagar
as Poleto
1927
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Adventures of a Ten Mark Note
as Rag picker
1926
5.0