Vladimir Sokoloff

Vladimir Sokoloff (in the U.S. as Vladimir Sokoloff; Russian Владимир Николаевич Соколов, Vladimir Nikolayevich Sokolov, * 25, or December 26, 1889 in Moscow, † 14 or February 15, 1962 in West Hollywood, California ) was a Russian actor.

Life

Vladimir Sokoloff grew up with a German family in Russia. After finishing school of literature and philosophy student Sokoloff attended the University of Moscow; he left it to educate yourself artistically. At the world-famous Moscow Art Theatre learned and he worked from 1913 among others, Konstantin Stanislavsky and Ivan Moskvin and was there, and later at the Moscow Chamber Theatre, a decade as an actor and assistant director operates. Formative influence on him had contact with the Japanese theater group Hanako in Moscow and his friendship with the dancer Isadora Duncan. With the chamber theater he was in 1923 for a guest performance in Berlin and was immediately engaged by Max Reinhardt. With his German language skills well equipped, he worked in the following nine years as an actor in Germany and Austria.

From 1926 he also appeared in films. He played prominent supporting roles under Georg Wilhelm Pabst ( The Love of Jeanne Ney, 1927, The Mistress of Atlantis, 1932) and Robert Siodmak ( Farewell, 1930). Peak of his film work in Germany is the role of a deaf and dumb have become in battle Schneiders in Victor Trivas ' pacifist war film No Man's Land ( 1931). Since The Threepenny Opera (1931), Sokoloff starred in French and English language versions of the early sound films. After the seizure of power by the National Socialists in Germany Sokoloff went to Paris, where he worked on with Pabst, Siodmak, Marc Allégret and Jean Renoir. In 1937 he moved to the United States. He was once many roles like in large productions and has appeared in numerous films as a supporting actor in character roles, including under Sam Wood in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) and as a nuclear scientist Dr. Polda in Fritz Lang's Cloak and Dagger ( 1946). Overall Sokoloff people played from 35 different nations: French, Italian, Oriental, Chinese, Spaniards, Mexicans, etc. His specialty was the representation of the Nobel smiling man. From the 1960s he appeared increasingly during the TV series. He was amongst others in Maverick, west of Santa Fe, The Untouchables, Checkmate and to see Twilight Zone. He played his last role in 1962 in the adventure film Taras Bulba on the side of Yul Brynner.

Vladimir Sokoloff was married once. Since 1948 he was a widower, the marriage remained childless. On February 15, 1962, he died of a stroke.

Filmography

In Germany / Austria

In France

U.S.