Josef Sommer
Popularity:0.379
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1934-06-26
Place of Birth:Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
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Also Known As:M. Josef Sommer, Josef Somer, جوزف سومر

Dirty Harry (1971)
When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law...

Chances Are (1989)
Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and...

Malice (1993)
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...

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is...

The Next Best Thing (2000)
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,...

Patch Adams (1998)
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...

The Mighty Ducks (1992)
After reckless young lawyer Gordon Bombay gets arrested for drunk driving, he must coach a kids hockey team for his community service. Gordon has...

Don't Drink the Water (1994)
Somewhere behind the early 1960s cold-war iron curtain, the Hollander family cause an international spying incident when Walter photographs a sunset...

The Invasion (2007)
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...

Sparkling Cyanide (1983)
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...

Nobody's Fool (1994)
A rascally nearing-retirement man juggles a workers' compensation suit while secretly working for his nemesis and flirting with his nemesis' young...

The Chamber (1996)
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...

Stop-Loss (2008)
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...

Witness (1985)
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...

The Elephant King (2006)
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...

Silkwood (1983)
The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and...

X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
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...

D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)
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...

Double Image (1986)
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.

Bulworth (1998)
A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by...

Rollover (1981)
An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.

Hide in Plain Sight (1980)
True story of a man in search of his children after his ex-wife enters the Witness Protection Program.

Absence of Malice (1981)
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...

Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989)
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...

Bridge to Silence (1989)
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...

Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1989)
The Bionic Woman and the Six-Million-Dollar Man reunite--with a few younger bionic assistants--and try to catch a bionic spy.

An American Story (1992)
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...

Dracula's Widow (1988)
Dracula's wife, Vanessa, comes back to life and attacks Raymond who has a waxworks museum, where he displays notorious monsters and murderers.

Too Far to Go (1979)
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...

The Execution of Raymond Graham (1985)
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...

The Front (1976)
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.

Money, Power, Murder. (1989)
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.

Oliver's Story (1978)
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...

The Henderson Monster (1980)
A small town becomes gripped by an ethical debate when the community discovers a moody, egotistical scientist is experimenting with DNA and the...

Man on a Swing (1974)
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...

Searching for Paradise (2002)
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.

Independence Day (1983)
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...

Enemies (1974)
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...

Forced March (1989)
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...

The Betty Ford Story (1987)
This biographical film was based on the book The Times of My Life written by Chris Chase and Betty Ford.

Strange Days (1995)
Former policeman Lenny Nero has moved into a more lucrative trade: the illegal sale of virtual reality-like recordings that allow users to experience...

Shadows and Fog (1991)
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.

When Will I Be Loved? (1990)
Three disillusioned wives who are contemplating divorce compare notes on their stormy marriages.

Still of the Night (1982)
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....

Mistrial (1996)
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,...

The Enemy Within (1994)
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.

Under Cover (1991)
A seasoned operative pursues a dangerous mission: to prevent the assassination of a high-ranking Soviet reformer. Meanwhile, his best friend believes...

Before the Storm (1991)
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...

Saigon: Year Of The Cat (1983)
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...

The Sum of All Fears (2002)
When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia...

Hanky Panky (1982)
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...

Brotherly Love (1985)
A businessman is stalked by his murderous twin brother, who has just been released from a mental hospital.

Hostages (1992)
True account of the six men held hostage by religious extremists in Beirut during the Reagan-Bush era.

Iceman (1984)
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...

Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker (1994)
The story of Johnson Whittaker, one of the first African-American cadets admitted to West Point. Tied down and beaten by his fellow cadets

Kansas (1995)
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...

The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope (1972)
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...

A Special Friendship (1987)
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...

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change (2002)
Following World War I, Indy - now fluent in several languages - works as a translator at the controversial Paris Peace Conference, where he once more...

Letter to My Killer (1995)
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...

Valley Forge (1975)
George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary War.

Shaft (2000)
New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps...

Sophie's Choice (1982)
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...

Reds (1981)
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical...

Citizen Cohn (1992)
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...

Doctor Franken (1980)
This variation of the Frankenstein legend, set in a brownstone in present-day Manhattan, has Robert Vaughn as a determined New York surgeon bringing...

Moonlight and Valentino (1995)
A young widow still grieving over the death of her husband finds herself being comforted by a local housepainter.

The Family Man (2000)
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...

Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys (1976)
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...

The Stepford Wives (1975)
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...

Target (1985)
A Texan with a secret past searches Europe with his son after the KGB kidnaps his wife.

The Rosary Murders (1987)
A priest is put in a dilemma when the serial killer who has been murdering priests and nuns confesses to him.

William Shakespeare's Hamlet (1990)
A Danish prince and university student avenges his father's murder by his uncle, who stole the crown and married his mother.

Hidden in America (1996)
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...

The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer (1999)
An account of early 1970s social activist Ira Einhorn, who allegedly murdered his girlfriend and then fled the country.

The Other Guys (2010)
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...

Ally McBeal (1997)
Ally McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Ally's lives and loves are eccentric, humorous, dramatic with an...

Providence (1999)
Providence is an American television drama series.

Early Edition (1996)
Gary Hobson thinks he may even be losing his mind when tomorrow's newspaper mysteriously arrives today giving him a disconcerting look into the...

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate...

Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983)
Scarecrow and Mrs. King is an American television series that aired from October 3, 1983, to May 28, 1987 on CBS. The show stars Kate Jackson and...

Without a Trace (2002)
The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.

The Equalizer (1985)
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself...

Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

Under Cover (1991)
Under Cover is an American secret agent drama series that premiered on ABC on January 7, 1991. The series starred Anthony John Denison and Linda Purl...

A Woman Named Jackie (1991)
This biographical miniseries, based on the best seller by C. David Heymann, starts when Jackie Kennedy was working after college; and spans her life...

The Andros Targets (1977)
James Sutorious star as Mike Andros, a newspaper investigative reporter who seeks out corruption and injustice in this this action-drama series.

Hothouse (1988)
A medical drama set in a New England psychiatric clinic includes father-and-son discord between the head of the facility and its business manager.

The Kennedys of Massachusetts (1990)
The Kennedys of Massachusetts is a 1990 TV miniseries that aired on ABC. Focusing mainly on the fifty-four year marriage of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr....

The West Wing (1999)
The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional...

Law & Order (1990)
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until...

The Scarlet Letter (1979)
The Scarlet Letter is a 1979 miniseries based on the novel of the same name that aired on WGBH from March 3, 1979 to March 24, 1979. The series is...

Mourning Becomes Electra (1978)
In a Greek tragedy updated to the 1860s, young New Englanders exact vengeance after the murder of their father.

Law & Order (1990)
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until...

Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001)
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense...

The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer (1999)
Based on true events, The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer tells the shocking story of Ira Einhorn, a respected American peace activist in 1970s America....

Great Performances (1971)
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular...

Great Performances (1971)
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular...