Josef Sommer is a retired German-American actor who played Senator Steve Gaines in the episode Slow News Day.
He also appeared in the film Reds (with Leigh Curran), The Invasion (with Roger Rees and Rhonda Overby), and The Sum of All Fears (with James Cromwell, Philip Baker Hall, Colm Feore, Lee Garlington, Evgeniy Lazarev, Robert Martin Robinson and Willie Gault).