Josef Sommer
Date of birth: 1934-06-26
Place of birth: Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Known for: Acting
Also known as: M. Josef Sommer, Josef Somer, جوزف سومر
Biography
Maximilian Josef Sommer (born June 26, 1934) is a German-American retired stage, television, and film actor. His best known roles are as The President in X-Men: The Last Stand, Senator Jessup in The Sum of All Fears, Peter Lassiter in The Family Man, Curtis Flemming in Shaft, Dr. Eaton in Patch Adams, Phelps Bowen in The Chamber, Clive Peoples Jr. in Nobody's Fool, Mr. Duckworth in The Mighty Ducks, Chief Paul Schaefer in Witness, Max Richter in Silkwood, Sam Taylor in Independence Day, Rothko in Dirty Harry, and narrator for the film Sophie's Choice.
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Dirty Harry
1971-12-23
When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for
Chances Are
1989-03-10
Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing t
Malice
1993-09-29
A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977-12-14
After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in
The Next Best Thing
2000-03-03
A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie, the other a gay man, Robert - who d
Patch Adams
1998-12-25
The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine,
The Mighty Ducks
1992-10-02
After reckless young lawyer Gordon Bombay gets arrested for drunk driving, he must coach a kids hock
Don't Drink the Water
1994-12-18
Somewhere behind the early 1960s cold-war iron curtain, the Hollander family cause an international
The Invasion
2007-08-17
Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two peop
Sparkling Cyanide
1983-11-05
The beautiful but unfaithful wife of a successful lawyer meets her untimely end at their anniversary
Nobody's Fool
1994-12-23
A rascally nearing-retirement man juggles a workers' compensation suit while secretly working for hi
The Chamber
1996-10-11
Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather,
Stop-Loss
2008-03-28
A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upsi
Witness
1985-02-08
While protecting an Amish boy – the sole witness to a brutal murder – and his mother, a detective is
The Elephant King
2006-04-26
The story of two brothers who lead totally different lives. Jake Hunt enjoys life to the fullest in
Silkwood
1983-12-14
Like most of the people in her town, Karen Silkwood works at the local nuclear plant producing highl
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006-05-24
When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor Charles
D.A.R.Y.L.
1985-06-14
Daryl is a normal 10-year-old boy in many ways. However, unbeknown to his foster parents and friends
Double Image
1986-04-06
This film tells the true-life story of Yuri Nosenko, a top Soviet KGB agent who defected to the West
Bulworth
1998-05-15
A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportuni
Rollover
1981-10-11
The wife of a murdered petrochemical company chairman and a banker investigating the liquidity of hi
Hide in Plain Sight
1980-03-21
True story of a man in search of his children after his ex-wife enters the Witness Protection Progra
Absence of Malice
1981-11-19
Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected rack
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989-11-03
This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells
Bridge to Silence
1989-04-09
A hearing impaired woman suffers a mental breakdown when a drunk-driving accident kills her husband
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
1989-04-30
The Bionic Woman and the Six-Million-Dollar Man reunite--with a few younger bionic assistants--and t
An American Story
1992-11-29
World War II has ended and many soldiers return to their houses and families. But three of them find
Dracula's Widow
1988-09-14
Dracula's wife, Vanessa, comes back to life and attacks Raymond who has a waxworks museum, where he
Too Far to Go
1979-03-12
Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the
The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985-11-17
A young man, convicted of the murder of a clerk, who has been on death row for five years and now aw
The Front
1976-09-17
A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice
Money, Power, Murder.
1989-12-10
Peter Finley is a cable-TV newsman who is led into a network of sin and conspiracy when he has inter
Oliver's Story
1978-12-15
Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries to l
The Henderson Monster
1980-05-27
A small town becomes gripped by an ethical debate when the community discovers a moody, egotistical
Man on a Swing
1974-02-24
When a young schoolteacher is found dead in her car in a parking lot in broad daylight, police chief
Searching for Paradise
2002-06-24
A young woman, coping with the death of her father, embarks on a quest to meet a Hollywood star with
Independence Day
1983-01-21
Mary Ann Taylor loves the comforts of her hometown in Mercury, Texas. She has a steady job as a wait
Enemies
1974-01-23
In a sun-dappled garden in provincial Russia in 1905, some factory owners and their wives discuss th
Forced March
1989-11-03
Ben Kline is an American television star and a bankable name, who is cast to portray the Hungarian w
The Betty Ford Story
1987-03-02
This biographical film was based on the book The Times of My Life written by Chris Chase and Betty F
Strange Days
1995-10-13
In the last days of 1999, ex-cop turned street hustler Lenny Nero receives a disc which contains the
Shadows and Fog
1991-12-05
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante g
When Will I Be Loved?
1990-12-03
Three disillusioned wives who are contemplating divorce compare notes on their stormy marriages.
Still of the Night
1982-11-19
When one of his patients is found murdered, psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice is visited by the investigatin
Mistrial
1996-11-02
When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of cont
The Enemy Within
1994-08-24
A officer with the Joint Chiefs of Staff uncovers a planned military coup of the U.S. government and
Under Cover
1991-01-05
A seasoned operative pursues a dangerous mission: to prevent the assassination of a high-ranking Sov
Before the Storm
1991-07-13
A follow up to Under Cover aka The Company (1991). Linda Purl is again Kate Del'Amico, National Inte
Saigon: Year of the Cat
1983-11-29
The year is 1974, and Barbara Dean (Judi Dench), a British assistant manager in a foreign bank in Sa
The Sum of All Fears
2002-05-31
When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him.
Hanky Panky
1982-06-04
Naïve Michael Jordon is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious pac
Brotherly Love
1985-05-28
A businessman is stalked by his murderous twin brother, who has just been released from a mental hos
Hostages
1992-09-23
True account of the six men held hostage by religious extremists in Beirut during the Reagan-Bush er
Iceman
1984-04-13
A team of Arctic researchers find a 40,000 year-old man frozen in ice and bring him back to life. A
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
1994-02-26
The story of Johnson Whittaker, one of the first African-American cadets admitted to West Point. Tie
Kansas
1995-07-27
When a single mother and high-powered Chicago ad executive returns to her home town in Kansas to car
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
1972-01-01
A bizarre series of events focused on young women in the village of Salem causes paranoia in the lat
A Special Friendship
1987-03-31
During the American Civil War, two women, a wealthy white woman and a freed black slave, join forces
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
2000-09-20
Following World War I, Indy - now fluent in several languages - works as a translator at the controv
Letter to My Killer
1995-08-09
A letter is found by a demolition worker that reveals a cover up and a murder that is over 30 years
Valley Forge
1975-12-03
George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary W
Shaft
2000-06-15
New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But t
Sophie's Choice
1982-12-08
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes fr
Reds
1981-12-25
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his
Citizen Cohn
1992-08-22
As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his p
Doctor Franken
1980-01-13
This variation of the Frankenstein legend, set in a brownstone in present-day Manhattan, has Robert
Moonlight and Valentino
1995-09-29
A young widow still grieving over the death of her husband finds herself being comforted by a local
The Family Man
2000-12-12
Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery stor
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1976-04-22
In 1930s Alabama, nine young black men are accused of raping two white women. The judge in the case,
The Stepford Wives
1975-02-12
Joanna Eberhart comes to the town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there
Target
1985-11-08
A Texan with a secret past searches Europe with his son after the KGB kidnaps his wife.
The Rosary Murders
1987-08-28
A priest is put in a dilemma when the serial killer who has been murdering priests and nuns confesse
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
1990-11-02
A Danish prince and university student avenges his father's murder by his uncle, who stole the crown
Hidden in America
1996-12-01
Story of a man whose pride in being the head of his family won't let him accept help from his sick d
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999-05-09
An account of early 1970s social activist Ira Einhorn, who allegedly murdered his girlfriend and the
The Other Guys
2010-08-06
Unlike their heroic counterparts on the force, desk-bound NYPD detectives Gamble and Hoitz garner no
The Proposition
1998-03-26
Father Michael McKinnon goes from the UK to Boston circa 1935. For unknown reasons, he avoids at all