
Known for
Acting
Born
December 26, 1889
Birthplace
Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Died
February 15, 1962 (aged 72)
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 Bat...
1962
as Stepan Kanevsky
1961
as Henryk Toleslawski
1961
as Peter Vestos
1960
as Jacob Krubeckoff
1960
1960
as Old Man
1960
1960
1960
as The Supreme
1960
as Papa of Boris Mitrov
1959
1959
as Gallegos (1 episode), as Father Tomas (1 episode), as Guitarist (Ignacio) (1 episode)
1959
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1959
as Anselmo
1958
1958
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1958
as Feodor Morris
1957
as The Old Fakir
1957
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1957
as Pepe the Janitor
1957
as Dr. Lorentz
1957
as Aziz Rakim