Josef Sommer
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| Born | Maximilian Josef Sommer June 26, 1934 Greifswald, Germany |
| Education | Carnegie Mellon University (BFA) |
| Years active | 1971—2010 |
Maximilian Josef Sommer (born June 26, 1934) is a retired German-American stage, television, and film actor.
Early life
He was born in
Career
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
He played a rare leading role—opposite Dracula's widow, played by Sylvia Kristel, as the film noir-esque detective in the quirky horror comedy Dracula's Widow (1988).
Filmography
- 1971 Dirty Harry as District Attorney William T. Rothko
- 1972 The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope (short film)
- 1973 The Doctors as Dave Davis
- 1974 The Guiding Lightas Roy Mills
- 1974 Man on a Swing as Pete Russell
- 1975 The Stepford Wives as Ted Van Sant
- 1975 Valley Forge (TV) as Brigadier General 'Dusty' Varnum
- 1976 The Adams Chronicles (TV) as Charles Lee
- 1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind as Larry Butler
- 1978 Oliver's Storyas Dr. Dienhart
- 1980 Hide in Plain Sight as Jason R. Reid
- 1981 Absence of Malice as McAdam
- 1981 Reds as State Department Official
- 1981 Rollover as Roy Lefcourt
- 1982 Hanky Panky as Adrian Pruitt
- 1982 Still of the Night as George Bynum
- 1982 Sophie's Choice as Narrator (voice)
- 1983 Independence Day as Sam Taylor
- 1983 Silkwood as Max Richter
- 1983 Sparkling Cyanide as George Barton
- 1984 Iceman as Whitman
- 1985 Witness as Chief Paul Schaeffer
- 1985 D.A.R.Y.L. as Dr. Jeffrey Stewart
- 1985 Target as Taber
- 1986 Scarecrow and Mrs. King (TV) as Raoul Nesbitt
- 1987 The Rosary Murders as Lieutenant Koznicki
- 1988 Dracula's Widow as Lannon
- 1989 Chances Are as Judge Fenwick
- 1989 Forced March as Father
- 1989 Bloodhounds of Broadway as Waldo Winchester
- 1990 The Kennedys of Massachusetts (TV) as Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 1991 Shadows and Fog as Priest
- 1992 Citizen Cohn (TV) as Albert Cohn
- 1992 The Mighty Ducks as Gerald Ducksworth
- 1993 Malice as Lester Adams
- 1993 The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (TV) as President Woodrow Wilson
- 1994 Nobody's Fool as Clive Peoples Jr.
- 1995 Strange Days as LAPD Commissioner Palmer Strickland
- 1995 Moonlight and Valentino as Thomas Trager
- 1996 The Chamber as Phelps Bowen
- 1996-2000 Law & Order (TV) as Judge Hellman / Defence Attorney Patrick Rumsey
- 1997 Early Edition as John Dobbs
- 1998 The Proposition as Father Dryer
- 1998 Bulworth as Doctor (uncredited)
- 1998 Lulu on the Bridge as Peter Shine (deleted scene) (uncredited)
- 1998 Patch Adams as Dr. Eaton
- 2000 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV) as Defence Attorney Patrick Rumsey
- 2000 The Next Best Thing as Richard Whittaker
- 2000 Shaft as Curt Fleming
- 2000 The Family Man as Peter Lassiter
- 2002 The Sum of All Fears as Senator Jessup
- 2002 Searching for Paradise as Carl Greenslate
- 2002 Benjamin Franklin (TV) as Cotton Mather
- 2003 Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Spencer Durning
- 2004 The West Wingas Steve Gaines
- 2006 The Elephant King as Bill Hunt
- 2006 X-Men: The Last Stand as The President
- 2007 The Invasion as Dr. Henryk Belicec
- 2008 Stop-Loss as Senator Orton Worrell
- 2010 The Other Guys (2010) as District Attorney Radford (uncredited)
References
External links
- Josef Sommer at IMDb
- Josef Sommer at the Internet Broadway Database
- Josef Sommer at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
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