Josef Sommer

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.

Known For

Rothko

Dirty Harry

Judge Fenwick

Chances Are

Atty. Lester Adams

Malice

Larry Butler

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Richard Whittaker

The Next Best Thing

Dr. Eaton

Patch Adams

Mr. Ducksworth

The Mighty Ducks

Ambassador Magee

Don't Drink the Water

Dr. Henryk Belicec

The Invasion

George Barton

Sparkling Cyanide

Clive Peoples Jr.

Nobody's Fool

Phelps Bowen

The Chamber

Senator Orton Worrell

Stop-Loss

Chief Paul Schaeffer

Witness

Bill Hunt

The Elephant King

Max Richter

Silkwood

The President

X-Men: The Last Stand

Dr. Jeffrey Stewart

D.A.R.Y.L.

James Angleton

Double Image

Doctor (uncredited)

Bulworth

Roy Lefcourt

Rollover

Jason R. Reid

Hide in Plain Sight

McAdam

Absence of Malice

Waldo Winchester

Bloodhounds of Broadway

Al Duffield

Bridge to Silence

Charles Estiman

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

Henry Meade

An American Story

Lannon

Dracula's Widow

Henry Mills

Too Far to Go

Jim Neal

The Execution of Raymond Graham

Committee Chairman

The Front

Jack Finley

Money, Power, Murder.

Dr. Dienhart

Oliver's Story

Dr. Martin Grossman

The Henderson Monster

Pete Russell

Man on a Swing

Carl Greenslate

Searching for Paradise

Sam Taylor

Independence Day

Nikolai

Enemies

Richard Kline

Forced March

President Gerald Ford

The Betty Ford Story

Palmer Strickland

Strange Days

Priest

Shadows and Fog

Martin Ransil

When Will I Be Loved?

George Bynum

Still of the Night

Nick Mirsky

Mistrial

Defence Secretary Charles Potter

The Enemy Within

Stewart Merriman

Under Cover

Stewart Merriman

Before the Storm

Jack Ockham

Saigon: Year of the Cat

Senator Jessup

The Sum of All Fears

Adrian Pruitt

Hanky Panky

Mr. Rafferty

Brotherly Love

Tom Sutherland

Hostages

Whitman

Iceman

Col. Morrow

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

Joseph 'Joe' Farley

Kansas

Proctor

The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope

General Winder

A Special Friendship

Woodrow Wilson

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change

Letter to My Killer

Valley Forge

Curt Flemming

Shaft

Narrator (voice)

Sophie's Choice

State Department Official

Reds

Albert Cohn

Citizen Cohn

Mr. Parker

Doctor Franken

Thomas Trager

Moonlight and Valentino

Peter Lassiter

The Family Man

Pomeroy

Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys

Ted Van Sant

The Stepford Wives

Barney Taber

Target

Lieutenant Koznicki

The Rosary Murders

Polonius

William Shakespeare's Hamlet

Edward Millerton

Hidden in America

The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer

District Attorney Radford (uncredited)

The Other Guys

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

76

Gender

Male

Birthday

1934-06-26

Place of Birth

Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Also Known As

M. Josef Sommer