Vladimir Sokoloff
Known for
Vladimir Sokoloff is a durable actor who has outlasted trends, studios and formats. For much of the audience, Vladimir Sokoloff is Old Man from 'The Magnificent Seven', whatever else the credits say. 'Scarlet Street' is the other credit most often cited. Viewing habits have changed more than once since the first credit. Neither the cinema nor the television half of the career can be called the side project.
Vladimir Sokoloff
70 Movies
10 Series
Vladimir Sokoloff is a durable actor who has outlasted trends, studios and formats. For much of the audience, Vladimir Sokoloff is Old Man from 'The Magnificent Seven', whatever else the credits say. 'Scarlet Street' is the other credit most often cited. Viewing habits have changed more than once since the first credit. Neither the cinema nor the television half of the career can be called the side project.
Movies
Plays Old Man
The Magnificent Seven
1960
Plays Anselmo
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943
Plays Pop LeJon
Scarlet Street
1945
Plays George "Pop" Pilski
While the City Sleeps
1956
Plays Stepan Kanevsky
Taras Bulba
1962
Plays Grandpere
Passage to Marseille
1944
Plays Señor Buenaventura J. Bello
Back to Bataan
1945
Plays Jacob Krubeckoff
Cimarron
1960
Plays Camilo
Juarez
1939
Plays Kwan Sum Tang
Macao
1952
Plays Malakoff
A Royal Scandal
1945
Plays Paul Cezanne
The Life of Emile Zola
1937
Plays Polda
Cloak and Dagger
1946
Plays Popus
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938
Plays Aziz Rakim
Istanbul
1957
Plays The Datu
The Real Glory
1939
Plays Miguel
The Conspirators
1944
Plays Hyder Khan
Road to Morocco
1942
Plays Dr. David Klugle
Love Crazy
1941
Plays Dimitri
Spawn of the North
1938
Plays Herr Andrew Brenner
Expensive Husbands
1937
Plays Uncle Hugo
A Scandal in Paris
1946
Plays Dying soldier
Conquest
1937
Plays Proviantmeister
Westfront 1918
1930
Plays Pepito Alvarez
The Baron of Arizona
1950
Plays Mikhail Kalinin, USSR president
Mission to Moscow
1943
Plays Pepe the Janitor
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
1957
Plays Dr. Lorentz
Monster from Green Hell
1957
Plays Michael Bastakoff
Comrade X
1940
Plays Feodor Morris
Twilight for the Gods
1958
Plays le vieux Kostileff
The Lower Depths
1936
Plays Chief of Police
Mayerling
1936
Plays Ivan Pavloff
Arsène Lupin Returns
1938
Plays Gypsy King
Don Quixote
1933
Plays The Supreme
Beyond the Time Barrier
1960
Plays Sascha
Beg, Borrow or Steal
1937
Plays Henryk Toleslawski
Mr. Sardonicus
1961
Plays Smith, the Jailer
The 3 Penny Opera
1931
Plays Cabeau
Till We Meet Again
1944
Plays Papa of Boris Mitrov
Man on a String
1960
Plays Commissioner Lum Chi Chow
To the Ends of the Earth
1948
Plays The Flying Dutchman
Alcatraz Island
1937
Plays Jacques Dufour
Two Smart People
1946
Plays Basil
Blockade
1938
Plays Le recteur
Under Western Eyes
1936
Plays Smith
The Threepenny Opera
1931
Plays M. Berger
High and Low
1933
Plays General Fu Shan
West of Shanghai
1937
Plays Zacharkiewicz
The Love of Jeanne Ney
1927
Plays Undertaker
Paris Underground
1945
TV Shows
Plays Anselmo
Playhouse 90
1956
Plays Gallegos
The Twilight Zone
1959
Plays Uncle Jacques Monet
The Millionaire
1955
Plays Papa Glockstein
Thriller
1960
Plays Prime Minister
Wire Service
1956
Plays Jake Bartosh
Cavalcade of America
1952
Plays Alf
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
Plays Pedro Rubio
Maverick
1957
Plays Pedro Moreno
Checkmate
1960
Plays Uncle Fernaud
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
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Taras Bulba
Full Filmography
Taras Bulba
Stepan Kanevsky
1962
Film
The Twilight Zone
Gallegos · 1 episode
1960–1961
TV
Thriller
Papa Glockstein · 1 episode
1960–1961
TV
Maverick
Pedro Rubio · 1 episode
1960–1961
TV
Checkmate
Pedro Moreno · 1 episode
1961
TV
Mr. Sardonicus
Henryk Toleslawski
1961
Film
Five Fingers: The Judas Goat
Peter Vestos
1961
Film
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Alf · 1 episode
1960
TV
Cimarron
Jacob Krubeckoff
1960
Film
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Vladimir Sokoloff still alive?
Vladimir Sokoloff passed away on February 15, 1962 at age 72.
What are the most famous roles of Vladimir Sokoloff?
Vladimir Sokoloff is best known for roles in The Magnificent Seven, Scarlet Street, For Whom the Bell Tolls.
How many movies has Vladimir Sokoloff been in?
Over a 36-year career (since 1926), Vladimir Sokoloff has appeared in 70 movies and 10 TV shows.
What was Vladimir Sokoloff's first movie?
The career of Vladimir Sokoloff began with Adventures of a Ten Mark Note (1926).
What is Vladimir Sokoloff's most recent movie or series?
Vladimir Sokoloff's most recent release is Taras Bulba, which premiered on November 21, 1962.
What TV shows has Vladimir Sokoloff appeared in?
On television, Vladimir Sokoloff has appeared in The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Rifleman, Have Gun, Will Travel.
Vladimir Sokoloff
1889-12-26 · Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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.Vladimir Sokoloff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.