Josef Sommer
Age: 89 | From: Greifswald, Germany
Person Details
Birthday: 1934-06-26 06:25:23
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Greifswald, Germany
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 56
TV Involvements: 15
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
(1999) Patrick Rumsey
Law & Order
(1990) Judge Lawrence Hellman
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
(2001) Spencer Durning
Without a Trace
(2002) Peter Ducek
The West Wing
(1999) Steve Gaines
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
(1977) Larry Butler
The Sum of All Fears
(2002) Senator Jessup
The Invasion
(2007) Dr. Henryk BelicecActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Senator Orton Worrell | |
| 2007 | Dr. Henryk Belicec | |
| 2006 | The President | |
| Bill Hunt | ||
| 2002 | Peter Ducek | |
| Carl Greenslate | ||
| Senator Jessup | ||
| 2001 | Spencer Durning | |
| 2000 | Peter Lassiter | |
| Curt Flemming | ||
| Richard Whittaker | ||
| 1999 | Steve Gaines | |
| Patrick Rumsey | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Thomas Wheelock | ||
| Woodrow Wilson | ||
| 1998 | Dr. Eaton | |
| Doctor (uncredited) | ||
| 1997 | N/A | |
| 1996 | Edward Millerton | |
| Nick Mirsky | ||
| Phelps Bowen | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1995 | Palmer Strickland | |
| Thomas Trager | ||
| N/A | ||
| Joseph 'Joe' Farley | ||
| 1994 | Clive Peoples Jr. | |
| Ambassador Magee | ||
| Defence Secretary Charles Potter | ||
| Col. Morrow | ||
| 1993 | Atty. Lester Adams | |
| 1992 | Henry Meade | |
| Mr. Ducksworth | ||
| Tom Sutherland | ||
| Albert Cohn | ||
| 1991 | Priest | |
| Joseph Kennedy Sr. | ||
| Stewart Merriman | ||
| 1990 | Martin Ransil | |
| Polonius | ||
| Judge Lawrence Hellman | ||
| Defense Attorney Patrick Rumsey | ||
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ||
| 1989 | Jack Finley | |
| Richard Kline | ||
| Waldo Winchester | ||
| Charles Estiman | ||
| Al Duffield | ||
| Judge Fenwick | ||
| 1988 | Lannon | |
| Dr. Sam Garrison | ||
| 1987 | Lieutenant Koznicki | |
| General Winder | ||
| President Gerald Ford | ||
| 1986 | James Angleton | |
| 1985 | Jim Neal | |
| Barney Taber | ||
| N/A | ||
| Dr. Jeffrey Stewart | ||
| Mr. Rafferty | ||
| Chief Paul Schaeffer | ||
| 1984 | Whitman | |
| 1983 | Max Richter | |
| Jack Ockham | ||
| George Barton | ||
| N/A | ||
| Sam Taylor | ||
| 1982 | Narrator (voice) | |
| George Bynum | ||
| Adrian Pruitt | ||
| 1981 | State Department Official | |
| McAdam | ||
| Roy Lefcourt | ||
| 1980 | Dr. Martin Grossman | |
| Jason R. Reid | ||
| Mr. Parker | ||
| 1979 | Henry Mills | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| 1978 | Dr. Dienhart | |
| Ezra Mannon | ||
| 1977 | Larry Butler | |
| Benson Fisher | ||
| 1976 | Committee Chairman | |
| Pomeroy | ||
| 1975 | N/A | |
| Ted Van Sant | ||
| 1974 | Pete Russell | |
| Nikolai | ||
| 1972 | N/A | |
| 1971 | Rothko | |
| Nikolai | ||
| Polonius | ||
| 1951 | Brig. Gen. Varnum | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
