Josef Sommer

Josef Sommer

Birthday: 1934-06-26

Place of Birth: Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

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
Dirty Harry

When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for...

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Chances Are
Chances Are

Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing t...

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Malice
Malice

A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's...

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in ...

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The Next Best Thing
The Next Best Thing

A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie, the other a gay man, Robert - who d...

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Patch Adams
Patch Adams

The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, ...

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The Mighty Ducks
The Mighty Ducks

After reckless young lawyer Gordon Bombay gets arrested for drunk driving, he must coach a kids hock...

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Don't Drink the Water
Don't Drink the Water

Somewhere behind the early 1960s cold-war iron curtain, the Hollander family cause an international ...

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The Invasion
The Invasion

Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two peop...

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Sparkling Cyanide
Sparkling Cyanide

The beautiful but unfaithful wife of a successful lawyer meets her untimely end at their anniversary...

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Nobody's Fool
Nobody's Fool

A rascally nearing-retirement man juggles a workers' compensation suit while secretly working for hi...

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The Chamber
The Chamber

Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, ...

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Stop-Loss
Stop-Loss

A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upsi...

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Witness
Witness

While protecting an Amish boy – the sole witness to a brutal murder – and his mother, a detective is...

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The Elephant King
The Elephant King

The story of two brothers who lead totally different lives. Jake Hunt enjoys life to the fullest in ...

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Silkwood
Silkwood

Like most of the people in her town, Karen Silkwood works at the local nuclear plant producing highl...

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X-Men: The Last Stand
X-Men: The Last Stand

When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor Charles ...

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D.A.R.Y.L.
D.A.R.Y.L.

Daryl is a normal 10-year-old boy in many ways. However, unbeknown to his foster parents and friends...

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Double Image
Double Image

This film tells the true-life story of Yuri Nosenko, a top Soviet KGB agent who defected to the West...

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Bulworth
Bulworth

A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportuni...

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Rollover
Rollover

The wife of a murdered petrochemical company chairman and a banker investigating the liquidity of hi...

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Hide in Plain Sight
Hide in Plain Sight

True story of a man in search of his children after his ex-wife enters the Witness Protection Progra...

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Absence of Malice
Absence of Malice

Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected rack...

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Bloodhounds of Broadway
Bloodhounds of Broadway

This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells...

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Bridge to Silence
Bridge to Silence

A hearing impaired woman suffers a mental breakdown when a drunk-driving accident kills her husband ...

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Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman

The Bionic Woman and the Six-Million-Dollar Man reunite--with a few younger bionic assistants--and t...

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An American Story
An American Story

World War II has ended and many soldiers return to their houses and families. But three of them find...

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Dracula's Widow
Dracula's Widow

Dracula's wife, Vanessa, comes back to life and attacks Raymond who has a waxworks museum, where he ...

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Too Far to Go
Too Far to Go

Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the ...

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The Execution of Raymond Graham
The Execution of Raymond Graham

A young man, convicted of the murder of a clerk, who has been on death row for five years and now aw...

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The Front
The Front

A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice ...

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Money, Power, Murder.
Money, Power, Murder.

Peter Finley is a cable-TV newsman who is led into a network of sin and conspiracy when he has inter...

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Oliver's Story
Oliver's Story

Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries to l...

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The Henderson Monster
The Henderson Monster

A small town becomes gripped by an ethical debate when the community discovers a moody, egotistical ...

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Man on a Swing
Man on a Swing

When a young schoolteacher is found dead in her car in a parking lot in broad daylight, police chief...

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Searching for Paradise
Searching for Paradise

A young woman, coping with the death of her father, embarks on a quest to meet a Hollywood star with...

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Independence Day
Independence Day

Mary Ann Taylor loves the comforts of her hometown in Mercury, Texas. She has a steady job as a wait...

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Enemies
Enemies

In a sun-dappled garden in provincial Russia in 1905, some factory owners and their wives discuss th...

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Forced March
Forced March

Ben Kline is an American television star and a bankable name, who is cast to portray the Hungarian w...

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The Betty Ford Story
The Betty Ford Story

This biographical film was based on the book The Times of My Life written by Chris Chase and Betty F...

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Strange Days
Strange Days

Former policeman Lenny Nero has moved into a more lucrative trade: the illegal sale of virtual reali...

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Shadows and Fog
Shadows and Fog

With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante g...

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When Will I Be Loved?
When Will I Be Loved?

Three disillusioned wives who are contemplating divorce compare notes on their stormy marriages....

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Still of the Night
Still of the Night

When one of his patients is found murdered, psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice is visited by the investigatin...

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Mistrial
Mistrial

When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of cont...

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The Enemy Within
The Enemy Within

A officer with the Joint Chiefs of Staff uncovers a planned military coup of the U.S. government and...

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Under Cover
Under Cover

A seasoned operative pursues a dangerous mission: to prevent the assassination of a high-ranking Sov...

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Before the Storm
Before the Storm

A follow up to Under Cover aka The Company (1991). Linda Purl is again Kate Del'Amico, National Inte...

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Saigon: Year of the Cat
Saigon: Year of the Cat

The year is 1974, and Barbara Dean (Judi Dench), a British assistant manager in a foreign bank in Sa...

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The Sum of All Fears
The Sum of All Fears

When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him....

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Hanky Panky
Hanky Panky

Naïve Michael Jordon is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious pac...

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Brotherly Love
Brotherly Love

A businessman is stalked by his murderous twin brother, who has just been released from a mental hos...

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Hostages
Hostages

True account of the six men held hostage by religious extremists in Beirut during the Reagan-Bush er...

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Iceman
Iceman

A team of Arctic researchers find a 40,000 year-old man frozen in ice and bring him back to life. A...

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Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker

The story of Johnson Whittaker, one of the first African-American cadets admitted to West Point. Tie...

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Kansas
Kansas

When a single mother and high-powered Chicago ad executive returns to her home town in Kansas to car...

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The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope

A bizarre series of events focused on young women in the village of Salem causes paranoia in the lat...

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A Special Friendship
A Special Friendship

During the American Civil War, two women, a wealthy white woman and a freed black slave, join forces...

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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change

Following World War I, Indy - now fluent in several languages - works as a translator at the controv...

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Letter to My Killer
Letter to My Killer

A letter is found by a demolition worker that reveals a cover up and a murder that is over 30 years ...

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Valley Forge
Valley Forge

George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary W...

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Shaft
Shaft

New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But t...

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Sophie's Choice
Sophie's Choice

Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes fr...

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Reds
Reds

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...

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Citizen Cohn
Citizen Cohn

As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his p...

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Doctor Franken
Doctor Franken

This variation of the Frankenstein legend, set in a brownstone in present-day Manhattan, has Robert ...

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Moonlight and Valentino
Moonlight and Valentino

A young widow still grieving over the death of her husband finds herself being comforted by a local ...

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The Family Man
The Family Man

Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery stor...

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Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys

In 1930s Alabama, nine young black men are accused of raping two white women. The judge in the case,...

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The Stepford Wives
The Stepford Wives

Joanna Eberhart comes to the town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there...

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Target
Target

A Texan with a secret past searches Europe with his son after the KGB kidnaps his wife....

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The Rosary Murders
The Rosary Murders

A priest is put in a dilemma when the serial killer who has been murdering priests and nuns confesse...

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William Shakespeare's Hamlet
William Shakespeare's Hamlet

A Danish prince and university student avenges his father's murder by his uncle, who stole the crown...

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Hidden in America
Hidden in America

Story of a man whose pride in being the head of his family won't let him accept help from his sick d...

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The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer

An account of early 1970s social activist Ira Einhorn, who allegedly murdered his girlfriend and the...

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The Other Guys
The Other Guys

Unlike their heroic counterparts on the force, desk-bound NYPD detectives Gamble and Hoitz garner no...

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The Proposition
The Proposition

Father Michael McKinnon goes from the UK to Boston circa 1935. For unknown reasons, he avoids at all...

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