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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...
Known for
The Twilight ZoneSeries • 1959
MaverickSeries • 1957
Have Gun, Will TravelSeries • 1957
The RiflemanSeries • 1958
Dick Powell's Zane Grey TheatreSeries • 1956
The Donna Reed ShowSeries • 1958
Alfred Hitchcock PresentsSeries • 1955
Peter GunnSeries • 1958
ThrillerSeries • 1960
CheckmateSeries • 1960
The MillionaireSeries • 1955
Playhouse 90Series • 1956
Cavalcade of AmericaSeries • 1952
The Magnificent SevenMovie • 1960
TightropeSeries • 1959
Johnny StaccatoSeries • 1959
The AlaskansSeries • 1959
While the City SleepsMovie • 1956
Scarlet StreetMovie • 1945
JuarezMovie • 1939
For Whom the Bell TollsMovie • 1943
Taras BulbaMovie • 1962
The Amazing Dr. ClitterhouseMovie • 1938
Back to BataanMovie • 1945