Vladimir Sokoloff
Vladimir Sokoloff
A literature and philosophy student in his native Moscow, Vladimir Sokoloff trained for an acting career under Stanislavsky at the Moscow Art Theatre. Leaving Russia in 1923, Sokoloff resettled in Germany, where he made his first film, Uneasy Money, in 1926. Dividing his time between Paris and Berlin throughout the 1930s, Sokoloff came to Hollywood in 1937, where his craggy face and colorful accent enabled him to secure choice character roles. Despite his name and ethnic derivation, Sokoloff successfully portrayed nearly 35 different nationalities during his American career: He was Frenchman Paul Cezanne in The Life of Emile Zola (1937), a Middle Easterner in Road to Morocco (1942), Spanish freedom fighter Anselmo in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), an elderly Mexican in The Magnificent Seven (1960), and so it went. Vladimir Sokoloff was active in films (Taras Bulba) and TV programs (The Twilight Zone) right up to his death in 1962. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Vladimir Sokoloff:
- For Whom the Bell Tolls with Gary Cooper , Ingrid Bergman , Akim Tamiroff , Katina Paxinou , Fortunio Bonanova , Victor Varconi , Joseph Calleia , Duncan Renaldo , George Coulouris , Frank Lackteen , George Sorel , Alberto Morin , Yakima Canutt , Yvonne DeCarlo , Charles Bickford , Eduardo Ciannelli
- Taras Bulba with Tony Curtis , Yul Brynner , Sam Wanamaker , Perry Lopez , George MacReady , Richard Rust
- Back to Bataan with John Wayne , Anthony Quinn , Beulah Bondi , Richard Loo , Lawrence Tierney , Paul Fix , Benson Fong , Kenneth MacDonald , Ray Teal
- The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse with Edward G. Robinson , Claire Trevor , Humphrey Bogart , Allen Jenkins , Donald Crisp , Gale Page , Henry O'Neill , John Litel , Thurston Hall , Maxie Rosenbloom , Ward Bond , Billy Wayne , Edgar Dearing , Susan Hayward , Ronald W. Reagan , Larry Steers , Mary Field , Bruce Mitchell
- The Life of Emile Zola with Paul Muni , Gale Sondergaard , Joseph Schildkraut , Robert Warwick , Donald Crisp , Henry O'Neill , Harry Davenport , Ralph Morgan , Marcia Mae Jones , Morris Carnovsky , Grant Mitchell , Montagu Love , Louis Calhern , Dickie Moore , Robert Cummings , John Litel , William vonBrincken
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