Vladimir Sokoloff

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Vladimir Nikolaevich Sokoloff (December 26, 1889 - February 15, 1962) was a character actor with many films to his credit.

[edit] Biography

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, he moved first to Paris in 1932, then to the United States in 1937.

He quickly found work in American films, playing characters of a wide variety of nationalities, for example, Filipino (Back to Bataan), Greek (Mr. Lucky), Arab (Road to Morocco), 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 The Twilight Zone ("Dust", "The Gift" and "The Mirror").

After a long career, he died of a stroke in West Hollywood, California in 1962.

[edit] Selected filmography

Abschied (1930) Mayerling (1936) The Life of Emile Zola (1937) West of Shanghai (1937) The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) Juarez (1939) Love Crazy (1941) Road to Morocco (1942) Mr. Lucky (1943) For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) Passage to Marseille (1944) A Royal Scandal (1945) Back to Bataan (1945)

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) Macao (1952) While the City Sleeps (1956) I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) The Magnificent Seven (1960) Cimarron (1960) Taras Bulba (1962)

[edit] External links

• Vladimir Sokoloff at the Internet Movie Database
• Vladimir Sokoloff at Find A Grave