Cast & creator
Vladimir Sokoloff
Best known for Maverick, Have Gun, Will Travel, The Rifleman
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 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vladimir Sokoloff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also known as: Wladimir Sokoloff, Wladimir Sokolow, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sokoloff, Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Соколо́в, Waldemar Sokoloff
79
film credits
21
television credits
100
1926–1962 · acting roles
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (100)
Showing 100 of 100 credits
Maverick
Pedro Rubio
1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
The Rifleman
1958
The Twilight Zone
Gallegos
1959The Twilight Zone
Father Tomas
1959The Twilight Zone
Guitarist (Ignacio)
1959
The Donna Reed Show
1958
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Alf
1956
Thriller
Papa Glockstein
1960Thriller
The Janitor
1960
Peter Gunn
1958
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Uncle Fernaud
1955
The Millionaire
Uncle Jacques Monet
1955
Checkmate
Pedro Moreno
1960
Playhouse 90
Anselmo
1956
Cavalcade of America
Jake Bartosh
1952
Tightrope
1959
The Alaskans
1959
The Magnificent Seven
Old Man
1960
Johnny Staccato
1959
Wire Service
Prime Minister
1956
Harrigan and Son
1960
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Anselmo
1943
While the City Sleeps
George "Pop" Pilski
1956
Scarlet Street
Pop LeJon
1945
Cimarron
Jacob Krubeckoff
1960
Back to Bataan
Señor Buenaventura J. Bello
1945
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Popus
1938
The Life of Emile Zola
Paul Cezanne
1937
Mr. Lucky
Greek Priest (uncredited)
1943
Juarez
Camilo
1939
Taras Bulba
Stepan Kanevsky
1962
Crossroads
Carlos Le Duc (uncredited)
1942
A Scandal in Paris
Uncle Hugo
1946
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
Pepe the Janitor
1957
Love Crazy
Dr. David Klugle
1941
Road to Morocco
Hyder Khan
1942
A Royal Scandal
Malakoff
1945
Spawn of the North
Dimitri
1938
Till We Meet Again
Cabeau
1944
Istanbul
Aziz Rakim
1957
Passage to Marseille
Grandpere
1944
Mission to Moscow
Mikhail Kalinin, USSR president
1943
Man on a String
Papa of Boris Mitrov
1960
The Baron of Arizona
Pepito Alvarez
1950
The Real Glory
The Datu
1939
Cloak and Dagger
Polda
1946
Macao
Kwan Sum Tang
1952
Beyond the Time Barrier
The Supreme
1960
Westfront 1918
Proviantmeister
1930
Beg, Borrow or Steal
Sascha
1937
The Conspirators
Miguel
1944
Monster from Green Hell
Dr. Lorentz
1957
Kismet
1931
Five Fingers: The Judas Goat
Peter Vestos
1961
The Love of Jeanne Ney
Zacharkiewicz
1927
Twilight for the Gods
Feodor Morris
1958
Sabu and the Magic Ring
The Old Fakir
1957
To the Ends of the Earth
Commissioner Lum Chi Chow
1948
Alcatraz Island
The Flying Dutchman
1937
Comrade X
Michael Bastakoff
1940
The 3 Penny Opera
Smith, the Jailer
1931
Queen of Atlantis
Graf Bielowski
1932
The Threepenny Opera
Smith
1931
Conquest
Dying soldier
1937
West of Shanghai
General Fu Shan
1937
The Lower Depths
le vieux Kostileff
1936
Life Is Ours
Un vieillard dans le cortège final
1936
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Anselmo
1959
High and Low
M. Berger
1933
Expensive Husbands
Herr Andrew Brenner
1937
Mayerling
Chief of Police
1936
Arsène Lupin Returns
Ivan Pavloff
1938
Under Western Eyes
Le recteur
1936
Two Smart People
Jacques Dufour
1946
Blockade
Basil
1938
Mr. Sardonicus
Henryk Toleslawski
1961
Adventures of a Ten Mark Note
Rag picker
1926
Strafsache van Geldern
Armenarzt
1932
Darling of the Gods
Boris Jussupoff
1930Der Sohn der Hagar
Poleto
1927
Sons of Liberty
Jacob (uncredited)
1939
The Ship of Lost Men
Grischa - the Cook
1929
Don Quixote
Gypsy King
1933
Paris Underground
Undertaker
1945
Ladies Lake
Baron Dobbersberg
1934
Mister Flow
Merlow
1936
Farewell
The Baron
1930Die weiße Sonate
Violinvirtuose Dollhofer
1928
Le secret des Woronzeff
Petroff
1935Prince Woronzeff
Petroff
1934
The Mistress of Atlantis
L'hetman de Jitomir (as Vl. Sokoloff)
1932
The Holy Flames
Dr. Harvester
1931Road to Home
Self (archive footage)
1945
Their Son
Berry
1929
Song of the Streets
Le père Schlamp
1933
Hell on Earth
Lewin
1931
Morals at Midnight
Overseer
1930
Haunted People
1932
Katharina Knie
Julius, der Clown
1929