Josef Sommer (actor)
Maximilian Josef Sommer (born June 26, 1934 in Greifswald , Germany ) is a German-American actor .
Life
Josef Sommer is the son of the art historian couple Clemens Sommer and Elisabeth Müller. The family fled Germany to the USA in 1937 because of racist persecution, where the father found work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . After graduating from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania in 1957 and serving in the US Army, Sommer initially performed at the American Shakespeare Festival . In 1970 he made his Broadway debut at the August Wilson Theater in the role of Brabantio in Othello .
1971 followed a first supporting role in Don Siegel's film Dirty Harry . Sommer, still active in the theater, played mostly supporting roles in numerous film productions. In addition to theater and film, he also worked in television productions. In 1987 he portrayed US President Gerald Ford in The Betty Ford Story , a biography with Gena Rowlands in the title role . He also made guest roles in television series such as Without a Trace and Law & Order .
Filmography (selection)
- 1971: Dirty Harry
- 1975: The Stepford Wives (The Stepford Wives)
- 1977: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Close encounters of the third kind)
- 1981: The Rollover Plot (Rollover)
- 1981: The Sensational Reporter (Absence of Malice)
- 1982: Still of the Night (Still of the Night)
- 1983: Silkwood
- 1984: Return from Another World (Iceman)
- 1985: The Only Witness
- 1985 Target - Target (Target)
- 1985: DARYL - The Extraordinary (DARYL)
- 1989: A Heavenly Lover (Chances Are)
- 1991: Shadows and Fog (Shadows and Fog)
- 1992: Mighty Ducks - Das Superteam (The Mighty Ducks)
- 1994: Nobody's Fool - Irresistible in the long run (Nobody's Fool)
- 1995: Strange Days
- 1996: Between the Worlds (Hidden in America)
- 1998: Patch Adams (Patch Adams)
- 2000: Shaft - Any questions? (Shaft)
- 2000: Family Man (The Family Man)
- 2002: The stop (The Sum of All Fears)
- 2006: The Elephant King
- 2006: X- Men: The Last Stand
- 2007: Invasion (The Invasion)
- 2008: stop loss
- 2010: The Other Guys (The Other Guys)
Web links
- Josef Sommer in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Josef Sommer in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Summer, Josef |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sommer, Maximilian Josef (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 26, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Greifswald , German Empire |