From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Josef Sommer (born June 26, 1934) is an American film actor. He was born Maximilian Josef Sommer in Greifswald, Germany and was raised in North Carolina, the son of Elisabeth and Clemons Sommer, a professor of art history at the University of North Carolina. He studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He has a daughter, Maria. Sommer made his acting debut at the age of nine in a North Carolina production of Watch on the Rhine. He made his film debut in 1971 in Dirty Harry, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind in 1977, and appeared in Witness opposite Harrison Ford (where he played a crooked police officer) and Moonlight and Valentino with Elizabeth Perkins. He appeared as President Gerald Ford opposite Gena Rowlands in the 1987 made-for-TV movie The Betty Ford Story. He has also had starring roles in two short-lived series, Hothouse (1988) and Under Cover (early 1990s). As of 2007, he has appeared, as a character actor, in almost 100 films. Some of his more famous roles have been as a crooked businessman or a corrupt politician. Description above from the Wikipedia article Josef Sommer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie | Stop-Loss | Senator Orton Worrell | 2008-03-28 |
Movie | The Invasion | Dr. Henryk Belicec | 2007-08-17 |
Movie | The Elephant King | Bill Hunt | 2006-04-26 |
Movie | X-Men: The Last Stand | The President | 2006-05-24 |
Movie | The Sum of All Fears | Senator Jessup | 2002-05-31 |
Series | Without a Trace | Unknown | 2002-09-26 |
Movie | Searching for Paradise | Carl Greenslate | 2002-06-24 |
Series | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Unknown | 2001-09-30 |
Movie | Shaft | Curt Flemming | 2000-06-15 |
Movie | The Next Best Thing | Richard Whittaker | 2000-03-03 |
Movie | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change | Woodrow Wilson | 2000-09-20 |
Movie | The Family Man | Peter Lassiter | 2000-12-12 |
Series | Providence | Unknown | 1999-01-08 |
Series | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Unknown | 1999-09-20 |
Movie | The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer | 1999-05-09 | |
Movie | Bulworth | Doctor (uncredited) | 1998-05-15 |
Movie | Patch Adams | Dr. Eaton | 1998-12-25 |
Series | Ally McBeal | Unknown | 1997-09-08 |
Movie | The Chamber | Phelps Bowen | 1996-10-11 |
Series | Early Edition | Unknown | 1996-09-28 |
Movie | Mistrial | Nick Mirsky | 1996-11-02 |
Movie | Hidden in America | Edward Millerton | 1996-12-01 |
Movie | Kansas | Joseph 'Joe' Farley | 1995-07-27 |
Movie | Letter to My Killer | 1995-08-09 | |
Movie | Strange Days | Palmer Strickland | 1995-10-13 |
Movie | Moonlight and Valentino | Thomas Trager | 1995-09-29 |
Movie | Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker | Col. Morrow | 1994-02-26 |
Movie | The Enemy Within | Defence Secretary Charles Potter | 1994-08-24 |
Movie | Don't Drink the Water | Ambassador Magee | 1994-12-18 |
Movie | Nobody's Fool | Clive Peoples Jr. | 1994-12-23 |
Movie | Malice | Atty. Lester Adams | 1993-09-29 |
Movie | Citizen Cohn | Albert Cohn | 1992-08-22 |
Movie | An American Story | Henry Meade | 1992-11-29 |
Movie | Hostages | Tom Sutherland | 1992-09-23 |
Movie | The Mighty Ducks | Mr. Ducksworth | 1992-10-02 |
Series | Under Cover | Stewart Merriman | 1991-01-07 |
Movie | Before the Storm | Stewart Merriman | 1991-07-13 |
Movie | Shadows and Fog | Priest | 1991-12-05 |
Series | A Woman Named Jackie | Joseph Kennedy Sr. | 1991-10-13 |
Series | The Kennedys of Massachusetts | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1990-02-18 |
Series | Law & Order | Patrick Rumsey | 1990-09-13 |
Movie | William Shakespeare's Hamlet | Polonius | 1990-11-02 |
Movie | When Will I Be Loved? | Martin Ransil | 1990-12-03 |
Movie | Bridge to Silence | Al Duffield | 1989-04-09 |
Movie | Chances Are | Judge Fenwick | 1989-03-10 |
Movie | Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman | Charles Estiman | 1989-04-30 |
Movie | Bloodhounds of Broadway | Waldo Winchester | 1989-11-03 |
Movie | Forced March | Richard Kline | 1989-11-03 |
Movie | Money, Power, Murder. | Jack Finley | 1989-12-10 |
Series | Hothouse | Dr. Sam Garrison | 1988-06-30 |
Movie | Dracula's Widow | Lannon | 1988-09-14 |
Movie | The Betty Ford Story | President Gerald Ford | 1987-03-02 |
Movie | A Special Friendship | General Winder | 1987-03-31 |
Movie | The Rosary Murders | Lieutenant Koznicki | 1987-08-28 |
Movie | Double Image | James Angleton | 1986-04-06 |
Movie | Brotherly Love | Mr. Rafferty | 1985-05-28 |
Movie | Witness | Chief Paul Schaeffer | 1985-02-08 |
Movie | D.A.R.Y.L. | Dr. Jeffrey Stewart | 1985-06-14 |
Series | The Equalizer | Unknown | 1985-09-18 |
Movie | The Execution of Raymond Graham | Jim Neal | 1985-11-17 |
Movie | Target | Barney Taber | 1985-11-08 |
Movie | Iceman | Whitman | 1984-04-13 |
Series | Scarecrow and Mrs. King | Unknown | 1983-10-03 |
Movie | Independence Day | Sam Taylor | 1983-01-21 |
Movie | Saigon: Year Of The Cat | Jack Ockham | 1983-11-29 |
Movie | Sparkling Cyanide | George Barton | 1983-11-05 |
Movie | Silkwood | Max Richter | 1983-12-14 |
Movie | Hanky Panky | Adrian Pruitt | 1982-06-04 |
Movie | Still of the Night | George Bynum | 1982-11-19 |
Movie | Sophie's Choice | Narrator (voice) | 1982-12-08 |
Movie | Rollover | Roy Lefcourt | 1981-10-11 |
Movie | Absence of Malice | McAdam | 1981-11-19 |
Movie | Reds | State Department Official | 1981-12-25 |
Movie | Doctor Franken | Mr. Parker | 1980-01-13 |
Movie | The Henderson Monster | Dr. Martin Grossman | 1980-05-27 |
Movie | Hide in Plain Sight | Jason R. Reid | 1980-03-21 |
Series | The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1979-03-03 |
Movie | Too Far to Go | Henry Mills | 1979-03-12 |
Series | Mourning Becomes Electra | Ezra Mannon | 1978-12-06 |
Movie | Oliver's Story | Dr. Dienhart | 1978-12-15 |
Series | The Andros Targets | Unknown | 1977-01-31 |
Movie | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Larry Butler | 1977-12-14 |
Movie | Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys | Pomeroy | 1976-04-22 |
Movie | The Front | Committee Chairman | 1976-09-17 |
Movie | The Stepford Wives | Ted Van Sant | 1975-02-12 |
Movie | Valley Forge | 1975-12-03 | |
Movie | Man on a Swing | Pete Russell | 1974-02-24 |
Movie | The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope | 1972-01-01 | |
Movie | Dirty Harry | Rothko | 1971-12-23 |
Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |