Josef Sommer

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Gender: Male
Born: 26th June 1934 (currently 77 years old)
Nationality: Germany, United States of America
TV programs: Under Cover, Hothouse, A Woman Named Jackie
Movies: Witness, Nobody's Fool, Malice, Iceman, Shaft, Moonlight and Valentino, The Scarlet Letter, The Mighty Ducks, The Chamber, The Invasion, Saigon—Year of the Cat, Stop-Loss, The Next Best Thing, The Family Man, Still of the Night, Too Far to Go, Oliver's Story, Rollover, Citizen Cohn, The Sum of All Fears, Don't Drink the Water, The Elephant King, Agatha Christie Classic Mystery Collection: Sparkling Cyanide, Bloodhounds of Broadway, Chances Are, Patch Adams, Hanky Panky, Hamlet, Hidden in America, The Enemy Within, Absence of Malice, The Front, Searching for Paradise, D.A.R.Y.L., Mistrial, Bridge to Silence, Dracula's Widow, Yuri Nosenko, KGB, The Kennedys of Massachusetts

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 Clemens 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.

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