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Josef Sommer

Josef Sommer

Birthday: 1934-06-26 | Place of Birth: Greifswald, Germany

​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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2008
Stop-Loss

as    Senator Orton Worrell

2006
The Elephant King

as    Bill Hunt

2000
Shaft

as    Curt Flemming

2000
The Next Best Thing

as    Richard Whittaker

1998
Patch Adams

as    Dr. Eaton

1996
Mistrial

as    Nick Mirsky

1995
Moonlight and Valentino

as    Thomas Trager

1994
Don't Drink the Water

as    Ambassador Magee

1994
Nobody's Fool

as    Clive Peoples Jr.

1994
The Enemy Within

as    Defence Secretary Charles Potter

1993
Malice

as    Atty. Lester Adams

1992
The Mighty Ducks

as    Mr. Ducksworth

1991
A Woman Named Jackie

as    Joseph Kennedy Sr.

1991
Under Cover

as    Stewart Merriman

1990
The Kennedys of Massachusetts

as    Franklin D. Roosevelt

1989
Bridge to Silence

as    Al Duffield

1989
Chances Are

as    Judge Fenwick

1989
Bloodhounds of Broadway

as    Waldo Winchester

1988
Dracula's Widow

as    Lannon

1986
Double Image

as    James Angleton

1985
Target

as    Barney Taber

1985
Witness

as    Chief Paul Schaeffer

1985
D.A.R.Y.L.

as    Dr. Jeffrey Stewart

1984
Iceman

as    Whitman

1983
Silkwood

as    Max Richter

1982
Hanky Panky

as    Adrian Pruitt