Josef Sommer
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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
Credits
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
as Senator Jessup
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
as Larry Butler
The Other Guys (2010)
as District Attorney Radford (uncredited)
The Invasion (2007)
as Dr. Henryk Belicec
Shaft (2000)
as Curt Flemming
The Family Man (2000)
as Peter Lassiter
Strange Days (1995)
as Palmer Strickland
Dirty Harry (1971)
as Rothko
Patch Adams (1998)
as Dr. Eaton
Witness (1985)
as Schaeffer
Malice (1993)
as Atty. Lester Adams
Sophie's Choice (1982)
as Narrator (voice)
Nobody's Fool (1994)
as Clive Peoples Jr.
The Mighty Ducks (1992)
as Mr. Ducksworth
The Stepford Wives (1975)
as Ted Van Sant
Stop-Loss (2008)
as Senator Orton Worrell
Absence of Malice (1981)
as McAdam
Bulworth (1998)
as Doctor (uncredited)
The Chamber (1996)
as Phelps Bowen
Chances Are (1989)
as Judge Fenwick
Moonlight and Valentino (1995)
as Thomas Trager
Silkwood (1983)
as Max Richter
Iceman (1984)
as Whitman
Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989)
as Waldo Winchester
Reds (1981)
as State Department Official
D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)
as Dr. Jeffrey Stewart
Still of the Night (1982)
as George Bynum
Valley Forge (1975)
as Brig. Gen. Varnum
The Henderson Monster (1980)
as Dr. Martin Grossman
Shadows and Fog (1991)
as Priest
The Enemy Within (1994)
as Defence Secretary Charles Potter
Man on a Swing (1974)
as Pete Russell
The Next Best Thing (2000)
as Richard Whittaker
The Rosary Murders (1987)
as Lieutenant Koznicki
Don't Drink the Water (1994)
as Ambassador Magee
The Proposition (1998)
as Dryer
Hanky Panky (1982)
as Adrian Pruitt
Sparkling Cyanide (1983)
as George Barton
Hidden in America (1996)
as Edward Millerton
The Front (1976)
as Committee Chairman
The Elephant King (2006)
as Bill Hunt
Double Image (1986)
as James Angleton
Mistrial (1996)
as Nick Mirsky
Dracula's Widow (1988)
as Lannon
Before the Storm (1991)
as Stewart Merriman
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1989)
as Charles Estiman
Hide in Plain Sight (1980)
as Jason R. Reid
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker (1994)
as Col. Morrow
The Betty Ford Story (1987)
as President Gerald Ford
Citizen Cohn (1992)
as Albert Cohn
Rollover (1981)
as Roy Lefcourt
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer (1999)
Actor
Too Far to Go (1979)
as Henry Mills
An American Story (1992)
as Henry Meade
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change (2000)
as Woodrow Wilson
Oliver's Story (1978)
as Dr. Dienhart
Searching for Paradise (2002)
as Carl Greenslate
Target (1985)
as Barney Taber
Saigon: Year of the Cat (1983)
as Jack Ockham
Bridge to Silence (1989)
as Al Duffield
The Execution of Raymond Graham (1985)
as Jim Neal
Money, Power, Murder. (1989)
as Jack Finley
Independence Day (1983)
as Sam Taylor
Brotherly Love (1985)
as Mr. Rafferty
Doctor Franken (1980)
as Mr. Parker
When Will I Be Loved? (1990)
as Martin Ransil
A Special Friendship (1987)
as General Winder
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
as The President
Letter to My Killer (1995)
Actor
Under Cover (1991)
as Stewart Merriman
William Shakespeare's Hamlet (1990)
as Polonius
Hostages (1992)
as Tom Sutherland
Enemies (1974)
as Nikolai
Kansas (1995)
as Joseph 'Joe' Farley
Forced March (1989)
as Richard Kline
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys (1976)
as Pomeroy
The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope (1972)
as Proctor