Vladimir Sokoloff

Known for ActingBorn 1889-12-26Died 1962-02-15Moscow, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Harrigan and Son

Le secret des Woronzeff

Prince Woronzeff

Morals at Midnight

Der Sohn der Hagar

Wire Service

Kismet

Their Son

The Twilight Zone

Katharina Knie

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The Holy Flames

Die weiße Sonate

Playhouse 90

The Magnificent Seven

Song of the Streets

Scarlet Street

Have Gun, Will Travel

Adventures of a Ten Mark Note

The Rifleman

The Lower Depths

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

Maverick

While the City Sleeps

Till We Meet Again

The Love of Jeanne Ney

A Royal Scandal

The 3 Penny Opera

Mr. Lucky

Mister Flow

Road to Morocco

Farewell

Thriller

The Alaskans

Man on a String

Love Crazy

The Baron of Arizona

The Threepenny Opera

Peter Gunn

Two Smart People

The Life of Emile Zola

The Donna Reed Show

Passage to Marseille

Conquest

Cloak and Dagger

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Tightrope

Taras Bulba