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