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Vladimir Sokoloff

Vladimir Sokoloff

Actor · 1889 – 1962 · Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]

​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.

Movies24

  • Movie7.5

    The Magnificent Seven

    1960 · 2.1K votes

  • Movie7.6

    Scarlet Street

    1945 · 459 votes

  • Movie6.5

    For Whom the Bell Tolls

    1943 · 216 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Cimarron

    1960 · 80 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Back to Bataan

    1945 · 72 votes

  • Movie7.2

    Mr. Lucky

    1943 · 50 votes

  • Movie7.0
  • Movie6.7

    The Life of Emile Zola

    1937 · 160 votes

  • Movie6.9

    While the City Sleeps

    1956 · 150 votes

  • Movie6.3

    The Real Glory

    1939 · 23 votes

  • Movie6.4

    A Scandal in Paris

    1946 · 32 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Passage to Marseille

    1944 · 71 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Macao

    1952 · 53 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Juarez

    1939 · 25 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Cloak and Dagger

    1946 · 73 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Taras Bulba

    1962 · 84 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Conquest

    1937 · 23 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Spawn of the North

    1938 · 14 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Westfront 1918: Vier von der Infanterie

    Westfront 1918

    1930 · 62 votes

  • Movie6.3

    The Conspirators

    1944 · 16 votes

  • Movie6.9

    Road to Morocco

    1942 · 84 votes

  • Movie6.9

    A Royal Scandal

    1945 · 20 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Love Crazy

    1941 · 39 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Mayerling

    1936 · 19 votes

Series18

  • TV7.0

    Maverick

    1957 · 43 votes

  • TV7.1

    The Rifleman

    1958 · 54 votes

  • TV7.3

    Have Gun, Will Travel

    1957 · 44 votes

  • TV8.5

    The Twilight Zone

    1959 · 1.1K votes

  • TV6.5

    The Donna Reed Show

    1958 · 19 votes

  • TV6.2
  • TV7.8

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    1955 · 266 votes

  • TV6.7

    Thriller

    1960 · 20 votes

  • TV6.6

    Peter Gunn

    1958 · 26 votes

  • TV5.8

    The Millionaire

    1955 · 4 votes

  • TV4.8

    Checkmate

    1960 · 8 votes

  • TV7.5

    Playhouse 90

    1956 · 10 votes

  • TV6.7

    The Alaskans

    1959 · 3 votes

  • TV4.6

    Cavalcade of America

    1952 · 5 votes

  • TV6.3

    Tightrope

    1959 · 3 votes

  • TV5.2

    Johnny Staccato

    1959 · 9 votes

  • TV9.0

    Wire Service

    1956 · 1 votes

  • TV10.0

    Harrigan and Son

    1960 · 1 votes