Vladimir 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 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 CBSs The Twilight Zone Dust The Gift and The Mirror On January 1 1961 Sokoloff guest starred as Old Stefano a wise shepherd in the ABCWarner 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia