Josef Sommer
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.01 |
| Birthday | 1934-06-26 |
| Place of Birth | Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany |
| Also Known As | M. Josef Sommer, Josef Somer, جوزف سومر, |
1971
Dirty Harry
7.442/2511
When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement...
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Dirty Harry
1989
Chances Are
6.6/267
Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and...
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Chances Are
1993
Malice
6.3/465
A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's a college professor. Things are never the same af...
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Malice
1977
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
7.3/4295
After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is abou...
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
2000
The Next Best Thing
5.3/189
A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie, the other a gay man, Robert - who decide to have a child together. Five years later,...
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The Next Best Thing
1998
Patch Adams
7.309/3242
The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his pa...
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Patch Adams
1992
The Mighty Ducks
6.5/898
After reckless young lawyer Gordon Bombay gets arrested for drunk driving, he must coach a kids hockey team for his community service. Gordon has expe...
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The Mighty Ducks
1994
Don't Drink the Water
5.6/80
Somewhere behind the early 1960s cold-war iron curtain, the Hollander family cause an international spying incident when Walter photographs a sunset i...
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Don't Drink the Water
2007
The Invasion
6/1541
Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two people on Earth who are aware of an epidemic running r...
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The Invasion
1983
Sparkling Cyanide
6.1/9
The beautiful but unfaithful wife of a successful lawyer meets her untimely end at their anniversary dinner. After a suicide note is found soon after...
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Sparkling Cyanide
1994
Nobody's Fool
6.868/311
A rascally nearing-retirement man juggles a workers' compensation suit while secretly working for his nemesis and flirting with his nemesis' young wif...
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Nobody's Fool
1996
The Chamber
6/255
Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has n...
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The Chamber
2008
Stop-Loss
6.1/255
A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return t...
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Stop-Loss
1985
Witness
7.1/1720
A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train station, and he must be protected. The assignmen...
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Witness
2006
The Elephant King
5.9/15
The story of two brothers who lead totally different lives. Jake Hunt enjoys life to the fullest in Thailand, while his shy brother Oliver deals with...
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The Elephant King
1983
Silkwood
7/325
The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possi...
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Silkwood
2006
X-Men: The Last Stand
6.4/9789
When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor Charles Xavier—and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mut...
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X-Men: The Last Stand
1985
D.A.R.Y.L.
6.4/336
Daryl is a normal 10-year-old boy in many ways. However, unbeknown to his foster parents and friends, Daryl is actually a government-created robot wit...
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D.A.R.Y.L.
1986
Double Image
5.7/6
This film tells the true-life story of Yuri Nosenko, a top Soviet KGB agent who defected to the West at the height of the Cold War in 1962.
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Double Image
1998
Bulworth
6.3/251
A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecti...
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Bulworth
1981
Rollover
5.1/26
An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.
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Rollover
1980
Hide in Plain Sight
5.3/15
True story of a man in search of his children after his ex-wife enters the Witness Protection Program.
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Hide in Plain Sight
1981
Absence of Malice
6.6/219
Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was...
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Absence of Malice
1989
Bloodhounds of Broadway
5.7/23
This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that Hort...
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Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989
Bridge to Silence
6/1
A hearing impaired woman suffers a mental breakdown when a drunk-driving accident kills her husband and she finds herself in a struggle with her mothe...
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Bridge to Silence
1989
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
6.7/45
The Bionic Woman and the Six-Million-Dollar Man reunite--with a few younger bionic assistants--and try to catch a bionic spy.
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Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
1992
An American Story
5.8/6
World War II has ended and many soldiers return to their houses and families. But three of them find themselves with big problems when they arrive at...
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An American Story
1988
Dracula's Widow
4.6/18
Dracula's wife, Vanessa, comes back to life and attacks Raymond who has a waxworks museum, where he displays notorious monsters and murderers.
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Dracula's Widow
1979
Too Far to Go
1/1
Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the fabric so many have come to know as marriage. For...
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Too Far to Go
1985
The Execution of Raymond Graham
6.6/8
A young man, convicted of the murder of a clerk, who has been on death row for five years and now awaits his execution while his family desperately se...
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The Execution of Raymond Graham
1976
The Front
7/168
A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.
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The Front
1989
Money, Power, Murder.
5.2/2
Peter Finley is a cable-TV newsman who is led into a network of sin and conspiracy when he has interest in a missing anchorwoman's story.
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Money, Power, Murder.
1978
Oliver's Story
4.8/26
Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries to lose himself in his work as a lawyer, the long hour...
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Oliver's Story
1980
The Henderson Monster
0/0
A small town becomes gripped by an ethical debate when the community discovers a moody, egotistical scientist is experimenting with DNA and the creati...
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The Henderson Monster
1974
Man on a Swing
5.8/26
A small-town police chief investigating a murder is offered help by a self-described psychic. However, when the chief discovers that the "psychic" is...
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Man on a Swing
2002
Searching for Paradise
4/1
A young woman, coping with the death of her father, embarks on a quest to meet a Hollywood star with whom she has become obsessed.
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Searching for Paradise
1983
Independence Day
5.5/10
Mary Ann Taylor loves the comforts of her hometown in Mercury, Texas. She has a steady job as a waitress in her father's diner, yet she can't help but...
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Independence Day
1974
Enemies
0/0
In a sun-dappled garden in provincial Russia in 1905, some factory owners and their wives discuss the unrest among the workers. Rather than submit to...
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Enemies
1989
Forced March
6.5/4
Ben Kline is an American television star and a bankable name, who is cast to portray the Hungarian writer Miklos Radnoti, whose journal of poems was f...
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Forced March
1987
The Betty Ford Story
0/0
This biographical film was based on the book The Times of My Life written by Chris Chase and Betty Ford.
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The Betty Ford Story
1995
Strange Days
7/1376
Former policeman Lenny Nero has moved into a more lucrative trade: the illegal sale of virtual reality-like recordings that allow users to experience...
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Strange Days
1991
Shadows and Fog
6.7/369
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
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Shadows and Fog
1990
When Will I Be Loved?
0/0
Three disillusioned wives who are contemplating divorce compare notes on their stormy marriages.
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When Will I Be Loved?
1982
Still of the Night
5.748/135
When one of his patients is found murdered, psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice is visited by the investigating officer but refuses to give up any information....
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Still of the Night
1996
Mistrial
5/20
When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of control. Declaring a mistrial, he takes the accused, t...
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Mistrial
1994
The Enemy Within
5.7/37
A officer with the Joint Chiefs of Staff uncovers a planned military coup of the U.S. government and has only one week to prevent the takeover.
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The Enemy Within
1991
Under Cover
0/0
A seasoned operative pursues a dangerous mission: to prevent the assassination of a high-ranking Soviet reformer. Meanwhile, his best friend believes...
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Under Cover
1991
Before the Storm
0/0
A follow up to Under Cover aka The Company (1991). Linda Purl is again Kate Del'Amico, National Intelligence Agent who travels to Kuwait in 1990 to in...
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Before the Storm
1983
Saigon: Year Of The Cat
4.6/5
The year is 1974, and Barbara Dean (Judi Dench), a British assistant manager in a foreign bank in Saigon, begins a relationship with American Bob Ches...
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Saigon: Year Of The Cat
2002
The Sum of All Fears
6.355/1755
When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia a...
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The Sum of All Fears
1982
Hanky Panky
5.2/61
Naïve Michael Jordon is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she's later m...
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Hanky Panky
1985
Brotherly Love
7/2
A businessman is stalked by his murderous twin brother, who has just been released from a mental hospital.
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Brotherly Love
1992
Hostages
6.5/8
True account of the six men held hostage by religious extremists in Beirut during the Reagan-Bush era.
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Hostages
1984
Iceman
6.1/124
A team of Arctic researchers find a 40,000 year-old man frozen in ice and bring him back to life. Anthropologist Dr. Stanley Shephard wants to befrie...
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Iceman
1994
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
6.25/12
The story of Johnson Whittaker, one of the first African-American cadets admitted to West Point. Tied down and beaten by his fellow cadets
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Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
1995
Kansas
5/3
When a single mother and high-powered Chicago ad executive returns to her home town in Kansas to care for her ailing father, she rediscovers the joys...
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Kansas
1972
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
0/0
A bizarre series of events focused on young women in the village of Salem causes paranoia in the late 1600s. It ends with the lynching of the accused...
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The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
1987
A Special Friendship
0/0
During the American Civil War, two women, a wealthy white woman and a freed black slave, join forces to fight for freedom and the abolition of slavery...
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A Special Friendship
2002
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
5.7/12
Following World War I, Indy - now fluent in several languages - works as a translator at the controversial Paris Peace Conference, where he once more...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
1995
Letter to My Killer
6/1
A letter is found by a demolition worker that reveals a cover up and a murder that is over 30 years old. The victim is the author of the letter that a...
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Letter to My Killer
1975
Valley Forge
0/0
George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary War.
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Valley Forge
2000
Shaft
6.019/1308
New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail...
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Shaft
1982
Sophie's Choice
7.332/862
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns...
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Sophie's Choice
1981
Reds
6.9/335
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical co...
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Reds
1992
Citizen Cohn
6.3/21
As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his past visit him as he reflects on his life and loves...
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Citizen Cohn
1980
Doctor Franken
2/1
This variation of the Frankenstein legend, set in a brownstone in present-day Manhattan, has Robert Vaughn as a determined New York surgeon bringing "...
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Doctor Franken
1995
Moonlight and Valentino
5.6/76
A young widow still grieving over the death of her husband finds herself being comforted by a local housepainter.
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Moonlight and Valentino
2000
The Family Man
6.795/2016
Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning...
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The Family Man
1976
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
6/1
In 1930s Alabama, nine young black men are accused of raping two white women. The judge in the case, unlike the rest of the town, comes to believe tha...
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Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1975
The Stepford Wives
6.7/323
Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all...
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The Stepford Wives
1985
Target
5.9/104
A Texan with a secret past searches Europe with his son after the KGB kidnaps his wife.
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Target
1987
The Rosary Murders
5.5/32
A priest is put in a dilemma when the serial killer who has been murdering priests and nuns confesses to him.
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The Rosary Murders
1990
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
0/0
A Danish prince and university student avenges his father's murder by his uncle, who stole the crown and married his mother.
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William Shakespeare's Hamlet
1996
Hidden in America
5.5/7
Story of a man whose pride in being the head of his family won't let him accept help from his sick daughters doctor. He has to prove to his kids that...
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Hidden in America
1999
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
5.3/7
An account of early 1970s social activist Ira Einhorn, who allegedly murdered his girlfriend and then fled the country.
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The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
2010
The Other Guys
6.309/4245
Unlike their heroic counterparts on the force, desk-bound NYPD detectives Gamble and Hoitz garner no headlines as they work day to day. When a seeming...
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