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.
98 acting credits
Acting · 98
Maverick
1957
The Rifleman
1958
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
The Twilight Zone
1959
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
The Donna Reed Show
1958
Thriller
1960
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Peter Gunn
1958
Playhouse 90
1956
Checkmate
1960
Cavalcade of America
1952
The Millionaire
1955
Tightrope
1959
The Magnificent Seven
1960
The Alaskans
1959
Wire Service
1956
Johnny Staccato
1959
Harrigan and Son
1960
Cimarron
1960
Taras Bulba
1962
Scarlet Street
1945
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943
Love Crazy
1941
Macao
1952
Mr. Lucky
1943
Conquest
1937
Back to Bataan
1945
Mission to Moscow
1943
Road to Morocco
1942
Juarez
1939
While the City Sleeps
1956
Beyond the Time Barrier
1960
The Real Glory
1939
A Scandal in Paris
1946
Mr. Sardonicus
1961
Arsène Lupin Returns
1938
Westfront 1918
1930
A Royal Scandal
1945
To the Ends of the Earth
1948
Comrade X
1940
Mayerling
1936
Crossroads
1942
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
1957
Ladies Lake
1934
The Baron of Arizona
1950
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938
The Life of Emile Zola
1937
Passage to Marseille
1944
Spawn of the North
1938
Alcatraz Island
1937
The Love of Jeanne Ney
1927
The Lower Depths
1936
Don Quixote
1933
Monster from Green Hell
1957
Two Smart People
1946
The Conspirators
1944
Cloak and Dagger
1946
The 3 Penny Opera
1931
Man on a String
1960
Istanbul
1957
The Threepenny Opera
1931
Till We Meet Again
1944
Queen of Atlantis
1932
The Holy Flames
1931
The Ship of Lost Men
1929
Beg, Borrow or Steal
1937
Blockade
1938
Expensive Husbands
1937
The Mistress of Atlantis
1932
Prince Woronzeff
1934
Twilight for the Gods
1958
Farewell
1930
Mister Flow
1936
Sons of Liberty
1939
Five Fingers: The Judas Goat
1961
Life Is Ours
1936
Kismet
1931
High and Low
1933
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1959
Song of the Streets
1933
Adventures of a Ten Mark Note
1926
Le secret des Woronzeff
1935
West of Shanghai
1937
Paris Underground
1945
Road to Home
1945
Strafsache van Geldern
1932
Hell on Earth
1931
Morals at Midnight
1930
Darling of the Gods
1930
Haunted People
1932
Katharina Knie
1929
Under Western Eyes
1936
Der Sohn der Hagar
1927
Sabu and the Magic Ring
1957
Monster from British Hell
2021
Their Son
1929
Die weiße Sonate
1928