Vladimir Sokoloff
| Vladimir Nikolayevich Sokoloff | |
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Vladimir Sokoloff in Scarlet Street (1945)
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| Born | December 26, 1889 Moscow, Russia |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Hollywood, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Stroke |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1926–1962 |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Alexanderoff (1922–1948) (her death) |
Vladimir Nikolayevich Sokoloff (Russian: Владимир Николаевич Соколов; December 26, 1889 – February 15, 1962) was a character actor[1] on stage and particularly in film.
Biography
Sokoloff was born in Moscow, Russia. He became an actor and assistant director with the Moscow Art Theatre[1] before emigrating to Berlin in 1923. With the rise of Nazism, he moved first to Paris in 1932, then to the United States in 1937.
He appeared in a number of Broadway plays from 1927 to 1950.[2] He also quickly found work in American films, playing characters of a wide variety of nationalities (he himself once estimated 35[1]), for example, Filipino (Back to Bataan), Greek (Mr. Lucky), Arab (Road to Morocco), Romanian (I Was a Teenage Werewolf), Chinese (Macao), and Mexican (The Magnificent Seven). Among his better known parts are the Old Man in The Magnificent Seven (1960) and Anselmo in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943).
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 was a pupil of Stanislavski, but in a 1960 newspaper article, he rejected Method acting (as well as all other acting theories).[3]
After a long career, he died of a stroke in 1962 in Hollywood, California.[1]
Complete filmography
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- Die Abenteuer eines Zehnmarkscheines, also known as Adventures of a Ten Mark Note and Uneasy Money (1926)
- Der Sohn der Hagar (Out of the Mist) (1927)
- Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney (The Love of Jeanne Ney) (1927)
- Die weiße Sonate (1928)
- Sensation im Wintergarten (Their Son) (1929)
- Das Schiff der verlorenen Menschen (The Ship of Lost Souls) (1929)
- Katharina Knie (1929)
- Westfront 1918 (1930) (uncredited)
- Moral um Mitternacht (1930)
- Abschied (1930)
- Liebling der Götter (Darling of the Gods) (1930)
- Das Flötenkonzert von Sans-souci (The Flute Concert of Sans-Souci) (1930)
- Kismet (1931)
- Die 3 Groschen-Oper (The Threepenny Opera) (1931)
- Die heilige Flamme (1931)
- L'opéra de quat'sous (1931)
- Niemandsland (Hell on Earth) (1931)
- L'Atlantide (1932)
- Teilnehmer antwortet nicht (1932)
- Strafsache von Geldern (1932)
- Gehetzte Menschen (Haunted People) (1932)
- Don Quichotte (1933)
- Don Quixote (1933) (uncredited)
- Dans les rues (1933)
- Du haut en bas (High and Low) (1933)
- Lac aux dames (Lake of Ladies) (1934)
- Fürst Woronzeff (Count Woronzeff) (1934)
- Napoléon Bonaparte (1935)
- Mayerling (1936)
- Sous les yeux d'occident (Under Western Eyes) (1936)
- Compliments of Mister Flow (1936)
- Les Bas-fonds (The Lower Depths) (1936)
- The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
- Alcatraz Island (1937)
- Conquest (1937)
- West of Shanghai (1937)
- Expensive Husbands (1937)
- Beg, Borrow or Steal (1937)
- Tovarich (1937) (scenes deleted)
- Arsène Lupin Returns (1938)
- Blockade (1938)
- The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
- Spawn of the North (1938)
- Ride a Crooked Mile (1938)
- Juarez (1939)
- Sons of Liberty (1939 short) (uncredited)
- The Real Glory (1939)
- Comrade X (1940)
- Love Crazy (1941)
- Crossroads (1942) (uncredited)
- Road to Morocco (1942)
- Mission to Moscow (1943)
- Mr. Lucky (1943) (uncredited)
- For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
- Song of Russia (1944)
- Passage to Marseille (1944)
- Till We Meet Again (1944)
- The Conspirators (1944)
- A Royal Scandal (1945)
- Back to Bataan (1945)
- The Blonde from Brooklyn (1945) (uncredited)
- Paris Underground (1945)
- Scarlet Street (1945)
- Two Smart People (1946)
- A Scandal in Paris (1946)
- Cloak and Dagger (1946)
- To the Ends of the Earth (1948)
- The Baron of Arizona (1950)
- Macao (1952)
- While the City Sleeps (1956)
- Istanbul (1957)
- Monster from Green Hell (1957)
- I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)
- Sabu and the Magic Ring (1957)
- Twilight for the Gods (1958)
- Man on a String (1960)
- Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)
- The Magnificent Seven (1960)
- Cimarron (1960)
- Mr. Sardonicus (1961)
- Escape from Zahrain (1962) (uncredited)
- Taras Bulba (1962)
References
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External links
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- 1889 births
- 1962 deaths
- Russian male stage actors
- Russian male film actors
- Russian male silent film actors
- Jewish American male actors
- Male actors from Moscow
- Male actors from Los Angeles, California
- Russian Jews
- Burials at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
- 20th-century Russian male actors
- 20th-century American male actors
- Imperial Russian emigrants to Germany
- Imperial Russian emigrants to the United States
- White Russian emigrants to the United States
- White Russian emigrants to Germany
