Vladimir Sokoloff

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1889-12-26 (73 years old)

Deathday

1962-02-15

Place of Birth

Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Vladimir Sokoloff

Biography

​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...

Acting

1960

1932

Queen of Atlantis

as Graf Bielowski

1941

Love Crazy

as Dr. David Klugle

1937

Conquest

as Dying soldier

1952

Macao

as Kwan Sum Tang

1944

1961

Mr. Sardonicus

as Henryk Toleslawski

1956

While the City Sleeps

as George "Pop" Pilski

1962

Taras Bulba

as Stepan Kanevsky

1950

The Baron of Arizona

as Pepito Alvarez

1960

1946

1933

High and Low

as M. Berger

1936

The Lower Depths

as le vieux Kostileff

1931

1945

Scarlet Street

as Pop LeJon

1960

Cimarron

as Jacob Krubeckoff

1948

To the Ends of the Earth

as Commissioner Lum Chi Chow

1944

1945

Back to Bataan

as Señor Buenaventura J. Bello

1957

1930

Darling of the Gods

as Boris Jussupoff

1936

Under Western Eyes

as Le recteur

1938

1946

Two Smart People

as Jacques Dufour

1934

Ladies Lake

as Baron Dobbersberg

1938

Arsène Lupin Returns

as Ivan Pavloff

1938

Blockade

as Basil

1946

A Scandal in Paris

as Uncle Hugo

1929

The Ship of Lost Men

as Grischa - the Cook

1957

Istanbul

as Aziz Rakim

1937

West of Shanghai

as General Fu Shan

1939

Sons of Liberty

as Jacob (uncredited)

1933

Song of the Streets

as Le père Schlamp

1961

1930

Westfront 1918

as Proviantmeister

1939

The Real Glory

as The Datu

1937

Expensive Husbands

as Herr Andrew Brenner

1927

The Love of Jeanne Ney

as Zacharkiewicz

1931

The 3 Penny Opera

as Smith, the Jailer

1940

Comrade X

as Michael Bastakoff

1939

Juarez

as Camilo

1957

I Was a Teenage Werewolf

as Pepe the Janitor

2021

1937

Alcatraz Island

as The Flying Dutchman

1957

Sabu and the Magic Ring

as The Old Fakir

1942

Road to Morocco

as Hyder Khan

1936

Mister Flow

as Merlow

1937

The Life of Emile Zola

as Paul Cezanne

1932

The Mistress of Atlantis

as L'hetman de Jitomir (as Vl. Sokoloff)

1934

1929

Katharina Knie

as Julius, der Clown

1945

Paris Underground

as Undertaker

1931

1942

Crossroads

as Carlos Le Duc (uncredited)

1930

Farewell

as The Baron

1931

The Holy Flames

as Dr. Harvester

1958

Twilight for the Gods

as Feodor Morris

1960

Man on a String

as Papa of Boris Mitrov

1928

Die weiße Sonate

as Violinvirtuose Dollhofer

1927

1945

Road to Home

as Self (archive footage)

1943

Mission to Moscow

as Mikhail Kalinin, USSR president

1943

Mr. Lucky

as Greek Priest (uncredited)

1945

A Royal Scandal

as Malakoff

1936

Life Is Ours

as Un vieillard dans le cortège final

1933

Don Quixote

as Gypsy King

1936

Mayerling

as Chief of Police

1944

1930

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