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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.
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12 October 1960
An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.
13 October 1937
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
06 December 1932
Widowed carpenter Vincenz Olivier lives with his 8-year-old son Boubou in a small French town. But on the day he is supposed to marry the mayor′s daughter, Louise, his dark past catches up with him: Ten years ago, Vincenz – whose real name is Leon Bernier – escaped from prioson after being convicted of murdering his lover′s sister.
24 February 1929
"Katharina Knie" is a 1929 German silent drama film directed by Karl Grune and starring Eugen Klöpfer, Carmen Boni and Adele Sandrock.
18 February 1931
In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising 'king of the beggars'.
19 April 1956
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".
26 July 1933
A gang of poverty-ridden juvenile delinquents progress from petty theft to hard crime, but a kindly judge manages to set most of them on the right path after they are finally apprehended.
25 December 1945
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March.
01 July 1943
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
27 November 1937
Unable to get work in her home country, Laurine Lynne (Beverly Roberts) travels to Vienna where her press agent, Joe Craig (Allyn Joslyn), convinces her to marry royalty.
25 August 1930
Hella lives in a boarding house and has various romantic adventures before settling down with vacuum cleaner salesman Winkler.
12 July 1943
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains.
30 May 1945
A U.S. Army colonel leads local fighters in a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.
21 November 1962
Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for his family and his folk and his passion for a Polish woman.
29 September 1939
Fort Mysang, southern Philippine Islands, under US rule, 1906. A small group of army officers and native troops resist the fierce and treacherous attacks of the ruthless Alisang and his fanatical followers.
09 September 1937
A fictionalized account of famous French writer Émile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair.
25 February 1938
A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one of the two rivals is none other than Arsène Lupin, the notorious jewel thief everybody thought dead, now living under the assumed name of René Farrand.
10 November 1942
Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.
11 April 1952
Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord.
16 February 1944
A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.
28 September 1946
Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.
23 May 1941
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
01 December 1960
The epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889.
17 May 1957
A test rocket carrying wasps to outer space, to study the effects on them of weightlessness and radiations, crashes out of control back to Earth, into the jungles of Africa.
30 August 1944
An American pilot is shot down over Nazi-occupied France and is taken to a convent by the Resistance.
01 October 1961
In Hungary, Sebastian searches for a traitor who betrays his people after promising them freedom. An episode of the spy show Five Fingers edited for theaters.
18 May 1934
A handsome but penniless young man takes a summer job as a swimming instructor in a picturesque Alpine lake resort.
31 January 1936
Rudolf, the only heir to Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary, is trapped in a loveless marriage to a Belgian princess.
22 October 1937
A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to support Polish independence.
07 April 1936
A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.
29 April 1943
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
23 January 1957
A suspected diamond smuggler returns to Istanbul and finds the lady love he thought was dead...or does he?
23 May 1930
A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow.
11 December 1936
Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva.
13 October 1930
Also known as Darling of the Gods, this was Emil Jannings' second talkie appearance. Jannings stars as famed operatic singer Albert Winkelmann, who is greeted with cheers, applause and romantic propositions whenever he performs in his native Vienna.
08 October 1961
In 1880, Sir Robert Cargrave, a London physician known for his experimental work in paralysis treatment, is summoned to Gorslava by the mysterious Baron Sardonicus—who is now married to Cargrave's former wife, Maude—to treat his disfigurement.
22 August 1932
Paulus van Geldern is a lawyer who has made a name for himself as a criminal defense attorney, but is notoriously short of funds due to his unbridled passion for gambling.
17 June 1938
A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with a Russian girl whose father is involved in espionage.
13 December 1940
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
28 June 1932
Two young officers, Saint-Avit and Morhange, get lost in the desert and find themselves prisoners of the beautiful Antinéa, queen of the city of Atlantis.
10 June 1939
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
04 March 1950
The U.S. government recognizes land grants made when the West was under Spanish rule. This inspires James Reavis to forge a chain of historical evidence that makes a foundling girl the Baroness of Arizona.
08 September 1960
In 1960, a pilot testing an experimental rocket powered aircraft accidentally flies into the future and finds himself in a sealed city whose people suspect he is a spy from outside their walls, but who want to keep him to procreate with the ruler's daughter because the majority of the inhabitants are sterile.
20 July 1938
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself.
04 June 1946
Con woman Ricki Woodner and detective Bob Simms follow a prison-bound swindler Ace Connors on his five-day gourmet binge.
12 March 1959
During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
24 November 1957
Young Sabu is a happy stable boy in the kingdom of Samukan, in charge of taking care of the Caliph's elephant.
20 June 1930
Berlin, the center of pleasures and kingdom of small virtues. From all over Germany, young night owls come to burn themselves cheerfully in its lights, to drown in its champagne and fill its boxes and restaurants until dawn.
23 July 1942
A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.
25 March 1933
Inflamed by his readings of chivalric novels, Don Quixote, a knight with a sad face, accompanied by Sancho Panza, a peasant steeped in common sense, decides to set off across the world in search of improbable adventures.
04 July 1945
WWII U.S. Navy training film MN-5075a that addresses the end of the war. Bob Hope and Bing Crosby try to convince sailors not to desert but to wait for their government benefits and honorable discharge.
08 June 1931
The French-language version of the The Threepenny Opera with a different cast from the German version.
09 June 1932
Antinea, the Queen of Atlantis, rules her secret kingdom hidden beneath the Sahara Desert. One day two lost explorers stumble into her kingdom, and soon realize that they haven't really been saved-- Antinea has a habit of taking men as lovers, then when she's done with them, she kills them and keeps them mummified.
08 September 1929
The son of a Countess runs away to join the circus and becomes a great trapeze artist. He returns years later and falls in love with a young woman.
30 October 1937
American businessmen and missionaries working in China are captured and held prisoner by a local warlord.
25 March 1960
U.S. spies catch a Moscow-born U.S. citizen helping spies, and they force him to counterspy.
26 March 1945
Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.
31 January 1931
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
08 December 1933
The intersecting lives of neighbors in a courtyard apartment building in Vienna,including a football player related to the concierge,a new blonde maid hired by the wife of a baron,whom both the athlete and a baron flirt with,and a deadbeat tenant who fakes his suicide.
19 July 1946
A smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.
