Josef Sommer
Acting
1934-06-26 · 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.
Filmography
The Other Guys
2010 · Movie
Stop-Loss
2008 · Movie
The Invasion
2007 · Movie
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006 · Movie
The Elephant King
2006 · Movie
Without a Trace
2002 · Series
Searching for Paradise
2002 · Movie
The Sum of All Fears
2002 · Movie
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001 · Series
The Family Man
2000 · Movie
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
2000 · Movie
Shaft
2000 · Movie
The Next Best Thing
2000 · Movie
The West Wing
1999 · Series
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · Series
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
1999 · Series
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999 · Movie
Providence
1999 · Series
Patch Adams
1998 · Movie
Bulworth
1998 · Movie
The Proposition
1998 · Movie
Ally McBeal
1997 · Series
Hidden in America
1996 · Movie
Mistrial
1996 · Movie
The Chamber
1996 · Movie
Early Edition
1996 · Series
Strange Days
1995 · Movie
Moonlight and Valentino
1995 · Movie
Letter to My Killer
1995 · Movie
Kansas
1995 · Movie
Nobody's Fool
1994 · Movie
Don't Drink the Water
1994 · Movie
The Enemy Within
1994 · Movie
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
1994 · Movie
Malice
1993 · Movie
An American Story
1992 · Movie
The Mighty Ducks
1992 · Movie
Hostages
1992 · Movie
Citizen Cohn
1992 · Movie
Shadows and Fog
1991 · Movie
A Woman Named Jackie
1991 · Series
Before the Storm
1991 · Movie
Under Cover
1991 · Series
Under Cover
1991 · Movie
When Will I Be Loved?
1990 · Movie
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
1990 · Movie
Law & Order
1990 · Series
The Kennedys of Massachusetts
1990 · Series
Money, Power, Murder.
1989 · Movie
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989 · Movie
Forced March
1989 · Movie
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
1989 · Movie
Bridge to Silence
1989 · Movie
Chances Are
1989 · Movie
Dracula's Widow
1988 · Movie
Hothouse
1988 · Series
The Rosary Murders
1987 · Movie
A Special Friendship
1987 · Movie
The Betty Ford Story
1987 · Movie
Double Image
1986 · Movie
The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985 · Movie
Target
1985 · Movie
The Equalizer
1985 · Series
D.A.R.Y.L.
1985 · Movie
Brotherly Love
1985 · Movie
Witness
1985 · Movie
Screen Two
1985 · Series
Iceman
1984 · Movie
Silkwood
1983 · Movie
Saigon: Year of the Cat
1983 · Movie
Sparkling Cyanide
1983 · Movie
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983 · Series
Independence Day
1983 · Movie
Sophie's Choice
1982 · Movie
Still of the Night
1982 · Movie
Hanky Panky
1982 · Movie
American Playhouse
1982 · Series
Reds
1981 · Movie
Absence of Malice
1981 · Movie
Rollover
1981 · Movie
The Henderson Monster
1980 · Movie
Hide in Plain Sight
1980 · Movie
Doctor Franken
1980 · Movie
Too Far to Go
1979 · Movie
The Scarlet Letter
1979 · Series
Oliver's Story
1978 · Movie
Mourning Becomes Electra
1978 · Series
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977 · Movie
The Andros Targets
1977 · Series
The Front
1976 · Movie
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1976 · Movie
The Adams Chronicles
1976 · Series
Valley Forge
1975 · Movie
The Stepford Wives
1975 · Movie
Man on a Swing
1974 · Movie
Enemies
1974 · Movie
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
1972 · Movie
Dirty Harry
1971 · Movie
Great Performances
1971 · Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Series