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Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sokoloff was a Russian-American character actor of stage and screen. After studying theatre in Moscow, he began his professional film career in Germany and France during the Silent era, before emigrating to the United States in the 1930s. He appeared in over 100 films and television series, often playing supporting characters of various nationalities and ethnicities.
Birth Name
Vladimir Alexandrovitch Sokoloff
Born
Thursday, 26 December 1889
Died
Thursday, 15 February 1962
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Monster from Green Hell: Recycled Version | Dr. Lorentz | 2021 |
| Horrible Horror | In clips from 'I Was a Teenage Werewolf' / Pepe in 'I was a Teenage Werewolf' | 1986 |
| Taras Bulba | Old Stepan / Stepan Kanevsky | 1962 |
| Escape from Zahrain | Head Man | 1962 |
| Mr. Sardonicus | Henryk Toleslawski | 1961 |
| The Dick Powell Theatre | Marco | 1961 |
| Whispering Smith | Father Antonio | 1961 |
| Cimarron | Jacob Krubeckoff | 1960 |
| Harrigan and Son | Kowalski | 1960 |
| The Law and Mr. Jones | Dr. Harding | 1960 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Monster from Green Hell: Recycled Version | Dr. Lorentz | 2021 |
| Horrible Horror | In clips from 'I Was a Teenage Werewolf' / Pepe in 'I was a Teenage Werewolf' | 1986 |
| Taras Bulba | Old Stepan / Stepan Kanevsky | 1962 |
| Escape from Zahrain | Head Man | 1962 |
| Mr. Sardonicus | Henryk Toleslawski | 1961 |
| The Dick Powell Theatre | Marco | 1961 |
| Whispering Smith | Father Antonio | 1961 |
| Cimarron | Jacob Krubeckoff | 1960 |
| Harrigan and Son | Kowalski | 1960 |
| The Law and Mr. Jones | Dr. Harding | 1960 |
| Checkmate | Pedro Moreno | 1960 |
| Thriller | The Janitor / Papa Glockstein | 1960 |
| Beyond the Time Barrier | The Supreme | 1960 |
| Man on a String | Papa of Boris Mitrov | 1960 |
| The Magnificent Seven | Old Man | 1960 |
| Hawaiian Eye | Dr. Anton Miklos | 1959 |
| Adventures in Paradise | Sada | 1959 |
| The Alaskans | Chanook | 1959 |
| Five Fingers | Peter Vestos | 1959 |
| The Twilight Zone | Father Tomas / Guitarist / Old Man Gallegos | 1959 |
| Hennesey | Papa Bronsky | 1959 |
| Sunday Showcase | Dr. Alexis Rostov | 1959 |
| Johnny Staccato | Father Keeley | 1959 |
| Tightrope | Emile Kovacs | 1959 |
| The Untouchables | Sam / Stanley Tannenbaum | 1959 |
| Lawman | Old Stefano | 1958 |
| The Rifleman | Abuelito | 1958 |
| The Donna Reed Show | Dr. Steinhaus | 1958 |
| Peter Gunn | Victor Majeski | 1958 |
| Twilight for the Gods | Feodor Morris | 1958 |
| Sabu and the Magic Ring | The Old Fakir | 1957 |
| Suspicion | Enrique Bartolo | 1957 |
| Maverick | Pedro Rubio | 1957 |
| Wagon Train | Felipe | 1957 |
| Have Gun - Will Travel | Gourken | 1957 |
| I Was a Teenage Werewolf | Pepe the Janitor | 1957 |
| Monster from Green Hell | Dr. Lorentz | 1957 |
| Istanbul | Aziz Rakim | 1957 |
| Zane Grey Theatre | Alf | 1956 |
| Playhouse 90 | Anselmo / Bartok | 1956 |
| Wire Service | Prime Minister | 1956 |
| While the City Sleeps | George 'Pop' Pilski | 1956 |
| Crusader | Grandfather | 1955 |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Uncle Fernaud | 1955 |
| The Millionaire | Uncle Jacques | 1955 |
| Father Knows Best | Man | 1954 |
| Cavalcade of America | Jake Bartosh | 1952 |
| Macao | Kwan Sum Tang | 1952 |
| Death Valley Days | Tarabal | 1952 |
| The Baron of Arizona | Pepito / Pepito Alvarez | 1950 |
| To the Ends of the Earth | Commissioner Lum Chi Chow | 1948 |
| Cloak and Dagger | Polda | 1946 |
| A Scandal in Paris | Uncle Hugo | 1946 |
| Two Smart People | Jacques Dufour | 1946 |
| Scarlet Street | Pop LeJon | 1945 |
| Paris Underground | Undertaker | 1945 |
| Back to Bataan | Señor Buenaventura J. Bello | 1945 |
| A Royal Scandal | Malakoff | 1945 |
| The Conspirators | Miguel | 1944 |
| Till We Meet Again | Cabeau | 1944 |
| Passage to Marseille | Grandpere | 1944 |
| Song of Russia | Alexander Meschkov | 1944 |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Anselmo | 1943 |
| Mr. Lucky | Greek Priest | 1943 |
| Mission to Moscow | Mikhail Kalinin, USSR president | 1943 |
| Road to Morocco | Hyder Khan | 1942 |
| Crossroads | Carlos Le Duc | 1942 |
| Love Crazy | Dr. Klugle / Dr. David Klugle | 1941 |
| Comrade X | Michael Bastakoff | 1940 |
| The Real Glory | The Datu | 1939 |
| Juarez | Camilo | 1939 |
| Sons of Liberty | Jacob | 1939 |
| Ride a Crooked Mile | Glinka | 1938 |
| Spawn of the North | Dimitri | 1938 |
| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse | Popus | 1938 |
| Blockade | Basil, Norma's Father / Basil | 1938 |
| Arsène Lupin Returns | Ivan Pavloff | 1938 |
| Tovarich | Bit Part | 1937 |
| Beg, Borrow or Steal | Sascha | 1937 |
| Expensive Husbands | Herr Andrew Brenner / Andrew Brenner | 1937 |
| West of Shanghai | Chow Fu-Shan | 1937 |
| Conquest | Dying soldier | 1937 |
| Alcatraz Island | The Flying Dutchman | 1937 |
| The Life of Emile Zola | Paul Cezanne | 1937 |
| The Lower Depths | Kostylev / le vieux Kostileff | 1936 |
| Mr. Flow | Merlow | 1936 |
| La vie est à nous | Un vieillard dans le cortège final | 1936 |
| Under Western Eyes | Le recteur | 1936 |
| Mayerling | Le chef de la police / Chief of Police | 1936 |
| Le secret des Woronzeff | 1935 | |
| Prince Woronzeff | Petroff | 1934 |
| Ladies Lake | Baron Dobbersberg | 1934 |
| High and Low | Monsieur Berger / M. Berger | 1933 |
| Song of the Streets | Le père Schlamp | 1933 |
| Don Quixote | Servant / Gypsy King | 1933 |
| Hunted Men | 1932 | |
| Strafsache van Geldern | 1932 | |
| Teilnehmer antwortet nicht | Zeichner Body | 1932 |
| Queen of Atlantis | Graf Bielowski / L'hetman de Jitomir | 1932 |
| Hell on Earth | Lewin | 1931 |
| Die heilige Flamme | Dr. Harvester | 1931 |
| The 3 Penny Opera | Smith / Smith, the Jailer | 1931 |
| The Flute Concert of Sans-Souci | Russian Envoy | 1930 |
| Abschied | The Baron / Der Baron | 1930 |
| Moral um Mitternacht | Ein Aufseher / Overseer | 1930 |
| Westfront 1918 | Meal Orderly / Proviantmeister | 1930 |
| The Ship of Lost Men | Grischa - der Koch - the Cook / Grischa - the Cook | 1929 |
| Sensation im Wintergarten | Berry | 1929 |
| L'Atlantide | L'hetman de Jitomir / L'hetman de Jitomir (as Vl. Sokoloff) | 1929 |
| Katharina Knie | Julius, der Clown | 1929 |
| The Love of Jeanne Ney | Zacharkiewicz | 1927 |
| Adventures of a Ten Mark Note | Ein Lumpensammler | 1926 |
