
Vladimir Sokoloff
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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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 7.04 |
Birthday | 1889-12-26 |
Place of Birth | Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia] |
Also Known As | Wladimir Sokoloff, Wladimir Sokolow, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sokoloff, Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Соколо́в, Waldemar Sokoloff, |

1960

The Magnificent Seven
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1959

For Whom the Bell Tolls
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1941

Love Crazy
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1937

Conquest
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1952

Macao
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1943

For Whom the Bell Tolls
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1944

The Conspirators
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1961

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1956

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1935

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1950

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1960

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1936

The Lower Depths
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1931

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1945

Scarlet Street
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1960

Cimarron
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1948

To the Ends of the Earth
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1944

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1945

Back to Bataan
6.1/62
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1957

Monster from Green Hell
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1930

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1936

Under Western Eyes
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1938

Spawn of the North
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1946

Two Smart People
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1934

Ladies Lake
4.1/6
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2010

Hollywood Classic Special
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1938

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1938

Blockade
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1946

A Scandal in Paris
6.3/30
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1929

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1957

Istanbul
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1937

West of Shanghai
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1939

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1933

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1961

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1930

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1939

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6.3/21
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1937

Expensive Husbands
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7.1/21
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1931

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1937

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1940

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1939

Juarez
6.5/21
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1957

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2021

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1937

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1957

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1942

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1936

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1937

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1932

The Mistress of Atlantis
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1934

Prince Woronzeff
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1929

Katharina Knie
7/1
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1945

Paris Underground
5.4/5
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1931

Kismet
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1938

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
7.2/48
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1942

Crossroads
5.9/35
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1930

Farewell
6.8/5
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1931

The Holy Flames
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1958

Twilight for the Gods
4.2/4
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1931

The Threepenny Opera
6.6/11
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1960

Man on a String
6/6
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1928

Die weiße Sonate
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1927

Der Sohn der Hagar
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1929

Sensation im Wintergarten
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1945

Road to Home
5/1
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1943

Mission to Moscow
5.2/17
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1943

Mr. Lucky
6.9/39
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1945

A Royal Scandal
6.9/18
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1936

Life Is Ours
6.2/12
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1933

Don Quixote
5.6/9
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1936

Mayerling
6.6/17
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1944

Till We Meet Again
6/1
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1932

Haunted People
5/1
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1930

Morals at Midnight
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1932

Strafsache van Geldern
5.2/4
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