Vladimir Sokoloff
Vladimir Sokoloff | |
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Vladimir Sokoloff in Scarlet Street (1945) | |
Born |
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sokoloff December 26, 1889 Moscow, Russia |
Died |
February 15, 1962 72) Hollywood, California, U.S. | (aged
Cause of death | Stroke |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1926–1962 |
Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Alexanderoff (1922–1948) (her death) |
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sokoloff (Russian: Владимир Александрович Соколов; December 26, 1889 – February 15, 1962) was a character actor on stage and particularly in film.[1]
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, Sokoloff who was Jewish, moved first to Paris in 1932, then to the United States in 1937.[2]
He appeared in a number of Broadway plays from 1937 to 1950.[3] 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), 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).[4]
After a long career, he died of a stroke in 1962 in Hollywood, California.[1]
Complete filmography
- Die Abenteuer eines Zehnmarkscheines (also known as Adventures of a Ten Mark Note and Uneasy Money) (1926) as Ein Lumpensammler
- Der Sohn der Hagar (Out of the Mist) (1927) as Poleto
- Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney (The Love of Jeanne Ney) (1927) as Zacharkiewicz
- The White Sonata (1928) as Violinvirtuose Dollhofer, Dinas Vater
- Sensation im Wintergarten (Their Son) (1929) as Berry
- Das Schiff der verlorenen Menschen (The Ship of Lost Souls) (1929) as Grischa - der Koch - the Cook
- Katharina Knie (1929) as Julius, der Clown
- Westfront 1918 (1930) as Meal Orderly (uncredited)
- Morals at Midnight (1930) as Ein Aufseher
- Abschied (1930) as The Baron
- Liebling der Götter (Darling of the Gods) (1930) as Boris Jussupoff
- Das Flötenkonzert von Sans-souci (The Flute Concert of Sanssouci) (1930) as Russian Envoy
- Kismet (1931)
- Die 3 Groschen-Oper (The Threepenny Opera) (1931) as Smith, the Jailer
- The Sacred Flame (1931)
- L'opéra de quat'sous (1931) as Smith
- Niemandsland (Hell on Earth) (1931) as Lewin
- L'Atlantide (1932) as Graf Bielowski
- Teilnehmer antwortet nicht (1932) as Zeichner Body
- Strafsache von Geldern (1932)
- Gehetzte Menschen (Haunted People) (1932)
- Don Quichotte (1933) as Gypsy King
- Don Quixote (1933) as Servant (uncredited)
- On the Streets (1933) as Le père Schlamp
- Du haut en bas (High and Low) (1933) as Monsieur Berger
- Lac aux dames (Lake of Ladies) (1934) as Baron Dobbersberg
- Fürst Woronzeff (Count Woronzeff) (1934) as Petroff
- Le secret des Woronzeff (1935) as Petroff
- Napoléon Bonaparte (1935) as Trista Fleuri
- Mayerling (1936) as Le chef de la police
- Sous les yeux d'occident (Under Western Eyes) (1936) as Le recteur
- Compliments of Mister Flow (1936) as Merlow
- Les Bas-fonds (The Lower Depths) (1936) as Kostylev
- The Life of Emile Zola (1937) as Paul Cezanne
- Alcatraz Island (1937) as The Flying Dutchman
- Conquest (1937) as Dying Soldier
- West of Shanghai (1937) as Chow Fu-Shan
- Expensive Husbands (1937) as Herr Andrew Brenner
- Beg, Borrow or Steal (1937) as Sascha
- Tovarich (1937) as Bit Part (scenes cut)
- Arsène Lupin Returns (1938) as Ivan Pavloff
- Blockade (1938) as Basil, Norma's Father
- The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) as Popus
- Spawn of the North (1938) as Dimitri
- Ride a Crooked Mile (1938) as Glinka
- Juarez (1939) as Camilo
- Sons of Liberty (1939 short) as Jacob (uncredited)
- The Real Glory (1939) as The Datu
- Comrade X (1940) as Michael Bastakoff
- Love Crazy (1941) as Dr. Klugle
- Crossroads (1942) as Carlos Le Duc (uncredited)
- Road to Morocco (1942) as Hyder Khan
- Mission to Moscow (1943) as Mikhail Kalinin, USSR president
- Mr. Lucky (1943) as Greek Priest (uncredited)
- For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) as Anselmo, the guide
- Song of Russia (1944) as Alexander Meschkov
- Passage to Marseille (1944) as Grandpère
- Till We Meet Again (1944) as Cabeau
- The Conspirators (1944) as Miguel
- A Royal Scandal (1945) as Malakoff
- Back to Bataan (1945) as Señor Buenaventura J. Bello
- The Blonde from Brooklyn (1945) (uncredited)
- Paris Underground (1945) as Undertaker
- Scarlet Street (1945) as Pop LeJon
- Two Smart People (1946) as Monsieur Jacques Dufour
- A Scandal in Paris (1946) as Uncle Hugo
- Cloak and Dagger (1946) as Polda
- To the Ends of the Earth (1948) as Commissioner Lum Chi Chow
- The Baron of Arizona (1950) as Pepito
- Macao (1952) as Kwan Sum Tang
- While the City Sleeps (1956) as George 'Pop' Pilski
- Istanbul (1957) as Aziz Rakim
- Monster from Green Hell (1957) as Dr. Lorentz
- I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) as Pepe the Janitor
- Sabu and the Magic Ring (1957) as The Old Fakir
- Twilight for the Gods (1958) as Feodor Morris
- Man on a String (1960) as Papa of Boris Mitrov
- Beyond the Time Barrier (1960) as The Supreme
- The Magnificent Seven (1960) as The Old Man
- Cimarron (1960) as Jacob Krubeckoff
- Mr. Sardonicus (1961) as Henryk Toleslawski
- Escape from Zahrain (1962) as Head Man (uncredited)
- Taras Bulba (1962) as Old Stepan
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Vladimir Sokoloff, 71, Character Actor, Dies". Modesto Bee. Associated Press. February 16, 1962 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Finler, Joel (August 2014). "The remarkable story of the Jewish film-makers in Germany during the early sound years, 1929-33". AJR Journal.
- ↑ Vladimir Sokoloff at the Internet Broadway Database
- ↑ Erskine Johnson (April 20, 1960). "Hollywood Glances!". Miami (Oklahoma) Daily News-Record – via Newspapers.com.