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Vladimir Sokoloff
Actor
Died February 15, 1962 (72 years)
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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Filmography
| 1986 | Horrible Horror · as In clips from 'I Was a Teenage Werewolf' |
| 1962 | Taras Bulba · as Stepan Kanevsky |
| 1962 | Escape from Zahrain · as Head Man |
| 1961 | Mr. Sardonicus · as Henryk Toleslawski |
| 1961 | Whispering Smith (TV Series) · as Father Antonio |
| 1960 | The Magnificent Seven · as Old man |
| 1960 | Cimarron · as Jacob Krubeckoff |
| 1960 | Thriller (TV Series) · as Papa Glockstein |
| 1960 | Checkmate (TV Series) · as Pedro Moreno |
| 1960 | Beyond the Time Barrier · as The Supreme |
| 1959 | The Twilight Zone (TV Series) · as Gallegos |
| 1959 | Johnny Staccato (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1959 | The Untouchables (TV Series) · as Sam |
| 1958 | The Donna Reed Show (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1958 | The Rifleman (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1958 | Lawman (TV Series) · as Old Stefano |
| 1958 | Peter Gunn (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1957 | Monster from Green Hell · as Dr. Lorentz |
| 1957 | Have Gun, Will Travel (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1957 | Suspicion (TV Series) · as Enrique Bartolo |
| 1957 | Maverick (TV Series) · as Pedro Rubio |
| 1957 | Wagon Train (TV Series) · as Felipe |
| 1956 | While the City Sleeps · as George "Pop" Pilski |
| 1956 | Zane Grey Theater (TV Series) · as Alf |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) · as Uncle Fernaud |
| 1954 | Father Knows Best (TV Series) · as Man |
| 1952 | Macao · as Kwan Sum Tang |
| 1952 | Death Valley Days (TV Series) · as Tarabal |
| 1952 | Cavalcade of America (TV Series) · as Jake Bartosh |
| 1950 | The Baron of Arizona · as Pepito Alvarez |
| 1946 | Two Smart People · as Jacques Dufour |
| 1946 | Cloak and Dagger · as Polda |
| 1946 | A Scandal in Paris · as Uncle Hugo |
| 1945 | Scarlet Street · as Pop LeJon |
| 1945 | Back to Bataan · as Señor Buenaventura J. Bello |
| 1944 | Passage to Marseille · as Grandpere |
| 1944 | The Conspirators · as Miguel |
| 1943 | For Whom the Bell Tolls · as Anselmo |
| 1943 | Mr. Lucky · as Greek Priest (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Road to Morocco · as Hyder Khan |
| 1941 | Love Crazy · as Dr. David Klugle |
| 1939 | Juarez · as Camilo |
| 1939 | The Real Glory · as The Datu |
| 1938 | The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse · as Popus |
| 1938 | Blockade · as Basil |
| 1937 | Conquest · as Dying soldier |
| 1937 | The Life of Emile Zola · as Paul Cezanne |
| 1936 | Mayerling · as Chief of Police |
| 1936 | La vie est à nous · as Un vieillard dans le cortège final |
| 1936 | Under Western Eyes · as Unknown |
| 1936 | The Lower Depths · as le vieux Kostileff |
| 1933 | High and Low · as M. Berger |
| 1933 | Don Quichotte · as Gypsy King |
| 1933 | Don Quixote · as Servant |
| 1931 | The Threepenny Opera · as Smith |
| 1931 | The 3 Penny Opera · as Smith, the Jailer |
| 1930 | Westfront 1918 · as Proviantmeister |
| 1927 | The Love of Jeanne Ney · as Zacharkiewicz |