Vladimir Nikolaevich Sokoloff (December 26, 1889 - February 15, 1962) was a character actor with many films to his credit.

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, he moved first to Paris in 1932, then to the United States in 1937.

He quickly found work in American films, playing characters of a wide variety of nationalities, for example Mexican (The Magnificent Seven), Greek (Mr. Lucky), Filipino (Back to Bataan) and Arab (Road to Morocco). Among his better known parts are the Old Man in The Magnificent Seven (1960) and Anselmo in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943). In the 1950s and early 1960s, he also appeared on a number of television shows, including three episodes of The Twilight Zone ("Dust", "The Gift" and "The Mirror").

After a long career, he died of a stroke in West Hollywood, California in 1962.

Familiar character actor of Russian heritage who played in scores of films, mostly in the U.S. He studied at the University of Moscow but left there to attend the Moscow Academy of Dramatic Art. He joined the world- renowned Moscow Art Theatre, where he worked for the next decade as an actor and assistant director, eventually directing plays himself. In 1923, he emigrated to Berlin and spent most of the next decade acting in films there and in Austria. With the coming of the Nazis, he relocated first to Paris, in 1932, and then to the United States in 1937. He immediately found himself very busy with dozens of roles in many popular American films, ranging from Russian to Chinese, Mexican, and Italian characters. Although his specialty was gentle, beatific characters, he could and did on occasion play less noble types. Among his most memorable characterizations were Anselmo, the gentle rebel in 'For Whom The Bell Tolls (1943)', and the wise peasant in 'The Magnificent Seven (1960)'. He died in West Hollywood, California in 1962.