Josef Sommer
Birthday: 1934-06-26 | Place of Birth: Greifswald, GermanyFrom 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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Acting
Role
as Senator Orton Worrell
as Bill Hunt
as Curt Flemming
as Richard Whittaker
as Woodrow Wilson
as Dr. Eaton
as Nick Mirsky
as Thomas Trager
as Ambassador Magee
as Clive Peoples Jr.
as Defence Secretary Charles Potter
as Atty. Lester Adams
as Mr. Ducksworth
as Joseph Kennedy Sr.
as Stewart Merriman
as Franklin D. Roosevelt
as Al Duffield
as Charles Estiman
as Judge Fenwick
as Waldo Winchester
as Lannon
as James Angleton
as Barney Taber
as Chief Paul Schaeffer
as Dr. Jeffrey Stewart
as Whitman
as Max Richter
as Adrian Pruitt
