Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1889-12-26 (73 years old)
Deathday
1962-02-15
Place of Birth
Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Also known As
Wladimir Sokoloff
Wladimir Sokolow
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sokoloff
Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Соколо́в
Waldemar Sokoloff
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...
1960
as Old Man
1959
as Anselmo
1932
as Graf Bielowski
1941
as Dr. David Klugle
1937
as Dying soldier
1952
as Kwan Sum Tang
1943
as Anselmo
1944
as Miguel
1961
as Henryk Toleslawski
1956
as George "Pop" Pilski
1935
as Petroff
1962
as Stepan Kanevsky
1950
as Pepito Alvarez
1960
as The Supreme
1946
as Polda
1933
as M. Berger
1936
as le vieux Kostileff
1931
as Lewin
1945
as Pop LeJon
1960
as Jacob Krubeckoff
1948
as Commissioner Lum Chi Chow
1944
as Grandpere
1945
as Señor Buenaventura J. Bello
1957
as Dr. Lorentz
1930
as Boris Jussupoff
1936
as Le recteur
1938
as Dimitri
1946
as Jacques Dufour
1934
as Baron Dobbersberg
1938
as Ivan Pavloff
1938
as Basil
1946
as Uncle Hugo
1929
as Grischa - the Cook
1957
as Aziz Rakim
1937
as General Fu Shan
1939
as Jacob (uncredited)
1933
as Le père Schlamp
1961
as Peter Vestos
1930
as Proviantmeister
1939
as The Datu
1937
as Herr Andrew Brenner
1927
as Zacharkiewicz
1931
as Smith, the Jailer
1937
as Sascha
1926
as Rag picker
1940
as Michael Bastakoff
1939
as Camilo
1957
as Pepe the Janitor
2021
as Dr. Lorentz
1937
as The Flying Dutchman
1957
as The Old Fakir
1942
as Hyder Khan
1936
as Merlow
1937
as Paul Cezanne
1932
as L'hetman de Jitomir (as Vl. Sokoloff)
1934
as Petroff
1929
as Julius, der Clown
1945
as Undertaker
1931
1938
as Popus
1942
as Carlos Le Duc (uncredited)
1930
as The Baron
1931
as Dr. Harvester
1958
as Feodor Morris
1931
as Smith
1960
as Papa of Boris Mitrov
1928
as Violinvirtuose Dollhofer
1927
as Poleto
1929
as Berry
1945
as Self (archive footage)
1943
as Mikhail Kalinin, USSR president
1943
as Greek Priest (uncredited)
1945
as Malakoff
1936
as Un vieillard dans le cortège final
1933
as Gypsy King
1936
as Chief of Police
1944
as Cabeau
1932
1930
as Overseer
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