Vladimir Sokoloff
Acting
Born 1889-12-26
Died 1962-02-15
Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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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.
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Acting
51 credits
Maverick
The Twilight Zone
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
The Magnificent Seven
Thriller
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Millionaire
Checkmate
Playhouse 90
Cavalcade of America
Wire Service
Scarlet Street
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Istanbul
Mr. Lucky
Juarez
Cimarron
Back to Bataan
Taras Bulba
While the City Sleeps
The Life of Emile Zola
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Macao
The Baron of Arizona
Passage to Marseille
Comrade X
Cloak and Dagger
Mission to Moscow
Sabu and the Magic Ring
A Scandal in Paris
Westfront 1918
A Royal Scandal
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
The Conspirators
Mayerling
The 3 Penny Opera
The Real Glory
Crossroads
Love Crazy
Expensive Husbands
Mr. Sardonicus
Don Quixote
Monster from Green Hell
Road to Morocco
Beyond the Time Barrier
The Lower Depths
Man on a String
Conquest
To the Ends of the Earth
Spawn of the North
Two Smart People
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The Rifleman
The Donna Reed Show
Have Gun, Will Travel
Peter Gunn
The Alaskans
Tightrope
Johnny Staccato
Harrigan and Son
Kismet
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