Josef Sommer
Acting
Born June 26, 1934 · Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
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.
Films (77)
The Other Guys
2010
Stop-Loss
2008
The Invasion
2007
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006
The Elephant King
2006
Searching for Paradise
2002
The Sum of All Fears
2002
The Family Man
2000
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
2000
Shaft
2000
The Next Best Thing
2000
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999
Patch Adams
1998
Bulworth
1998
The Proposition
1998
Hidden in America
1996
Mistrial
1996
The Chamber
1996
Strange Days
1995
Moonlight and Valentino
1995
Letter to My Killer
1995
Kansas
1995
Nobody's Fool
1994
Don't Drink the Water
1994
The Enemy Within
1994
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
1994
Malice
1993
An American Story
1992
The Mighty Ducks
1992
Hostages
1992
Citizen Cohn
1992
Shadows and Fog
1991
Before the Storm
1991
Under Cover
1991
When Will I Be Loved?
1990
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
1990
Money, Power, Murder.
1989
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989
Forced March
1989
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
1989
Bridge to Silence
1989
Chances Are
1989
Dracula's Widow
1988
The Rosary Murders
1987
A Special Friendship
1987
The Betty Ford Story
1987
Double Image
1986
The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985
Target
1985
D.A.R.Y.L.
1985
Brotherly Love
1985
Witness
1985
Iceman
1984
Silkwood
1983
Saigon: Year of the Cat
1983
Sparkling Cyanide
1983
Independence Day
1983
Sophie's Choice
1982
Still of the Night
1982
Hanky Panky
1982
Reds
1981
Absence of Malice
1981
Rollover
1981
The Henderson Monster
1980
Hide in Plain Sight
1980
Doctor Franken
1980
Too Far to Go
1979
Oliver's Story
1978
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
The Front
1976
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1976
Valley Forge
1975
The Stepford Wives
1975
Man on a Swing
1974
Enemies
1974
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
1972
Dirty Harry
1971