​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.

Filmography

• 1962Taras Bulba — Stepan Kanevsky
• 1961Five Fingers: The Judas Goat — Peter Vestos
• 1961Mr. Sardonicus — Henryk Toleslawski
• 1960Beyond the Time Barrier — The Supreme
• Checkmate — Pedro Moreno
• 1960Cimarron — Jacob Krubeckoff
• Harrigan and Son
• 1960Man on a String — Papa of Boris Mitrov
• 1960The Magnificent Seven — Old Man
• Thriller — Papa Glockstein, The Janitor
• 1959For Whom the Bell Tolls — Anselmo
• Johnny Staccato
• The Alaskans
• The Twilight Zone — Gallegos, Father Tomas, Guitarist (Ignacio)
• Tightrope
• Peter Gunn
• The Donna Reed Show
• The Rifleman
• 1958Twilight for the Gods — Feodor Morris
• Have Gun, Will Travel
• 1957I Was a Teenage Werewolf — Pepe the Janitor
• 1957Istanbul — Aziz Rakim
• Maverick — Pedro Rubio
• 1957Monster from Green Hell — Dr. Lorentz
• 1957Sabu and the Magic Ring — The Old Fakir
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre — Alf
• Playhouse 90 — Anselmo
• 1956While the City Sleeps — George "Pop" Pilski
• Wire Service — Prime Minister
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Uncle Fernaud
• The Millionaire — Uncle Jacques Monet
• Cavalcade of America — Jake Bartosh
• 1952Macao — Kwan Sum Tang
• 1950The Baron of Arizona — Pepito Alvarez
• 1948To the Ends of the Earth — Commissioner Lum Chi Chow
• 1946A Scandal in Paris — Uncle Hugo
• 1946Cloak and Dagger — Polda
• 1946Two Smart People — Jacques Dufour
• 1945A Royal Scandal — Malakoff
• 1945Back to Bataan — Señor Buenaventura J. Bello
• 1945Paris Underground — Undertaker
• 1945Scarlet Street — Pop LeJon
• 1944Passage to Marseille — Grandpere
• 1944The Conspirators — Miguel
• 1944Till We Meet Again — Cabeau
• 1943For Whom the Bell Tolls — Anselmo
• 1943Mission to Moscow — Mikhail Kalinin, USSR president
• 1943Mr. Lucky — Greek Priest (uncredited)
• 1942Crossroads — Carlos Le Duc (uncredited)
• 1942Road to Morocco — Hyder Khan
• 1941Love Crazy — Dr. David Klugle
• 1940Comrade X — Michael Bastakoff
• 1939Juarez — Camilo
• 1939Sons of Liberty — Jacob (uncredited)
• 1939The Real Glory — The Datu
• 1938Arsène Lupin Returns — Ivan Pavloff
• 1938Blockade — Basil
• 1938Spawn of the North — Dimitri
• 1938The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse — Popus
• 1937Alcatraz Island — The Flying Dutchman
• 1937Beg, Borrow or Steal — Sascha
• 1937Conquest — Dying soldier
• 1937Expensive Husbands — Herr Andrew Brenner
• 1937The Life of Emile Zola — Paul Cezanne
• 1937West of Shanghai — General Fu Shan
• 1936Life Is Ours — Un vieillard dans le cortège final
• 1936Mayerling — Chief of Police
• 1936Mister Flow — Merlow
• 1936The Lower Depths — le vieux Kostileff
• 1936Under Western Eyes — Le recteur
• 1935Le secret des Woronzeff — Petroff
• 1934Ladies Lake — Baron Dobbersberg
• 1934Prince Woronzeff — Petroff
• 1933Don Quixote — Gypsy King
• 1933High and Low — M. Berger
• 1933Song of the Streets — Le père Schlamp
• 1932Haunted People
• 1932Queen of Atlantis — Graf Bielowski
• 1932Strafsache van Geldern — Armenarzt
• 1932The Mistress of Atlantis — L'hetman de Jitomir (as Vl. Sokoloff)
• 1931Hell on Earth — Lewin
• 1931Kismet
• 1931The 3 Penny Opera — Smith, the Jailer
• 1931The Holy Flames — Dr. Harvester
• 1931The Threepenny Opera — Smith
• 1930Darling of the Gods — Boris Jussupoff
• 1930Farewell — The Baron
• 1930Morals at Midnight — Overseer
• 1930Westfront 1918 — Proviantmeister
• 1929Katharina Knie — Julius, der Clown
• 1929The Ship of Lost Men — Grischa - the Cook
• 1929Their Son — Berry
• 1928Die weiße Sonate — Violinvirtuose Dollhofer
• 1927Der Sohn der Hagar — Poleto
• 1927The Love of Jeanne Ney — Zacharkiewicz
• 1926Adventures of a Ten Mark Note — Rag picker

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 1945Road to Home — Self (archive footage)